I had to leave a Tran* group elsewhere, I couldn't put up with the transsexual put downs and missrepresentation of an androgynous car ad from Japan.
I tried to explain that it wasn't, as one person put it, another use of a 'man in a dress', and his parts WE all despise are showing, and that HE doesn't even attempt to have boobs.
I tied to explain that the person doesn't, as written in the article, consider himself to be anything other than male, and does the makeup and look because he can do it. It's a job and he gets paid, ya know?
But the put downs and questioning of Androgyn's and other non-binaries continued. For quite a few posts.
So, I had enough of reading the line after line of ->-bleeped-<- from supposed supportive Trans*people, who as it turns out are just a bunch of transexuals claiming to support, yet also expressing a 'better than you' and we are the tru Trans* people attitude.
It is and will continue to be that way. Somebody needs to be thrown under the bus it seems.
And there will always be bigots no matter what group of people you look at.
Their ->-bleeped-<- doesn't stink, but then, neither does mine.
The amount of conflict in the Trans* world is appalling, and I am just as guilty...you could say.
But the fact of the matter is that we are not as outspoken about ourselves and at the time seem to be outnumbered.
I maintain that there are more of us, but who cares?
As long as we can be made to be the scapegoats of the 'man in a dress' problem that some have to endure, we will always be treated as nothing more than a way station on the way to eternal binary gender bliss.
Truth is,... the more that androgynous, androgyny, is accepted and portrayed in a positve light in the fashion world, the better off we will all be. It does help to get rid of the stereotype image of a 'man in a dress'.
But bigots will be bigots. They accept no other opinion but their own.
I'm just happy that the people I am friends with and would like to be friends with that are transsexuals were not among that bunch of people putting down another non-binary presentation, to justify their existence.
I've said as much before, in no uncertain terms here and it has had negative results.
I hope this, as a response to a distressed posting and topic, that it will not be so, again.
I have no ill will towards any Trans* person, just some of the ill informed viewpoints of some.
(no finger pointing here, it isn't needed.)
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