The wolves circle in close pulling off members of the herd a few at a time. The stronger members of the herd race on surviving for a time against the relentless onslaught of the pack while the weak begin to fall by the wayside and are snapped up. Eventually the strong become the weak as all the lesser members of the herd have been eaten up. Soon none are left. This is analogy of what happens when you take what the public sees as a whole and start trying to separate out portions of it.
Greetings and salutations to the users of my boards and the wolves who wish to divide them. The public looks at us and they see one thing men in dresses for the MTF's, TS's CD's, and TV's. For the FTM they only see a lesbian women. This of course assumes you do not pass fully and thus become for the most part invisible. The public doesn't see the spectrum that makes up the transgender community they have no inkling that there is a difference between a Drag Queen or King, a CD, a TS, MTF or FTM. Education could help this but it would take generations for any effects to be seen. We have enough problem with those who just see us all as gay.
Here on Susan's Place I have four goals. Simple ones really.
Providing Information and Education - Transgender individuals come on the net and one of the first things they do is find out they are not alone out there and that others have similar feelings to themselves. Then you have the friends and loved ones who had someone they care about who recently came out of the closet. They both want information about the transgendered
Providing Support - After providing information and education this is a very important function of this website. We all need reassurance from time to time. We have setbacks in our lives or we lose family and friends as a result of coming out or being found out. We need others who understand what we are going though.
Preventing Tragedy - We have all been depressed. Many of us have been suicidal. We cheer up those who are down about their lives and try to redirect those thought before they can turn to to depression or worse suicide. We help buoy each other and thus keep our heads above water and our minds in the fragile condition known as sanity.
Companionship - A side effect of the first three purposes of this site but still just as important is the simple fact that this is a place where we can talk about our lives and our experiences. We discuss anything from books to hormones from the serious to the whimsical. We grow by our contact with others who understand and respect us.
I don't limit my site to one segment of the transgender community. I refuse to allow at least here in this one place in the world that I control for people to be excluded or to be made to feel less than any other member of my site. You are all equal in my eyes and each of you should see the other members of this site in the same way. As equals.
Let us now put an end to the TS vs CD and similar discussions, fights, and arguments on this site once and for all.
