Eleveld’s Conversation(s) that need to happen

[Shana A]

Eleveld's Conversation(s) that need to happen
On February 17, 2011, by Dyssonance

http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=10870

On February 10th, Kerry Eleveld published a piece on the Equality Matters website.  On February 12th, Pam Spaulding republished the piece on Pam's House Blend.

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First off, I have to point something out that people seem to forget excruciatingly commonly.

A transsexual who has less than a month into transition usually has only a few pieces, only dresses once in a while, can often appear androgynous, and has had no surgeries.

They are, then, a cross dresser, basically, by the usual standards that one might hear in pretty much any group out there.  Or perhaps a ->-bleeped-<-.  Or possibly gender queer.  Or lord knows what else. And it is during that first early part — from the very start and up through often the first year or two of "full time" — that they suffer the worst discrimination, harassment, and abuse.