Issues like this are part of why I finally did a youtube vid and posted it in my blog on here. I'm not ashamed of who I am... if someone who knows me, but doesn't know I'm trans, happens upon my picture on this site or any other which indicated I'm trans, so be it.
However, this topic makes me think of a particular transwoman I know, or knew, who did post someone's else's pic and claim it was her own. After a time of showing her real picture, she began telling folks she'd had breast augmentation and FFS, and used a picture of a friend of hers, a model. She told everyone that she'd had incredible success through surgery, and was now doing modeling and acting jobs. A year or so after this began, she arranged to meet me and my wife for drinks. Nearly needless to say, she'd had no surgery, and was quite obviously NOT the woman from the pictures.
Of course, she gave no explanation for this, nor even brought it up. However, the harm is apparent, when I see an old picture of the woman she claimed to be, followed by comments from other transwomen as to how jealous they were, how they felt inferior because she'd had such tremendous results, and they hadn't. Obviously, I have no problem with those folks who either don't post their pictures on this or other sites, or who post celebrities' pictures... as long as they're not purporting those pictures to be their own.
SD
