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Those who are female and also not afraid of being transgendered

Started by Janet Merai, April 15, 2009, 01:48:34 AM

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Bobbisocksgrl

Hmmm Lots to ponder! Why do we used definitions? If not we'd have no frame of reference. Does one title cover all? No, that is why though we started with male and female we have added cross dresser, transgendered, transsexual, preop-postop, Trans man, Trans woman, She male and (my own) Male Lesbian. Someday I hope to be able to drop the male portion. But however we define ourselves and others we can be proud of who and what we are. Or we can let the rest of the world use those terms as derogatory insults. I am old enough to remember that if you wore womens clothes you were a drag queen and turned tricks in back alleys in the red light district. Today yes we still have prostitutes that dress in drag. But I have seen lots of good entertainers that are above moral reproach gay or straight. I say define yourself and be proud of who you are (now) and where you came from. As the current saying is "You go girl" or "You go guy" if your a trans man.   
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Lance

i think its a good thing, people used to be scared to admit they were gay because it wasn't accepted. i hope that we are just moving in a positive direction and transgenders that never felt comfortable before are starting to feel more accepted. maybe I'm wrong, but i hope that the recent growth in transgenders in just people feeling accepted...But...i agree that life isn't so black and white, maybe we need to sit back and think about the labels that some of us are throwing at ourselves. life shouldn't be about labels...
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Jaimey

Agreed, but then again strategic essentialism (a group of people taking one identity to further their cause) definitely has a place in the trans community right now.  It's a fine line...
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