Well, CRaSH, you've had a chance to make some points and I grudgingly admire your admire you efforts to discuss your issues in a way that tries at least to not to throw gas on a fire.
And to your question regarding cis-female violence against trans women has for the most part been answered, at least from the knowledgeable people here.
How about you do some more research? If you have not already look through some of the lists here and try to understand the horrible things we have to go through. And the joys.
Look though the blogs. Read about what some of us have been through. Both in spiritual and material changes. Do you realize the monetary expense that is involved in this? The costs of our medications are astronomical, and the surgeries are usually paid out of our own pockets. And if you throw in the loss that is incurred in divorce, it is usually debilitating for years if not the rest of our lives. We are casually discriminated against and fired out of hand. We are unemployed and underemployed because of who we are. Does that ring a bell?
Immerse yourself in the larger LGBT world. Check out some of these websites that talk about what being gay, lesbian or trans is all about. No one is asking you to change (lordy no!
) and you won't catch "teh gay" as some of our legislators think you might. But I think you may have come here as a bit of a lark looking for some very light information. Now I challenge you. If you really want to know, look at what we have to live with every single day of our lives. These websites are not pornographic, though some may have a bit of erotica on them, but you can just skip those. I dare say you have never even thought to look.
Pam's House Blend. Political activism at it's best:
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/frontPage.doThe Bilerico Project. Wide ranging reports of news, life and love:
http://www.bilerico.com/Towleroad. A site with homosexual tendencies:
http://www.towleroad.com/My Husband Betty. helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues:
http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/Andra James' TSRoadmap. A place almost as good as Susan's for information about transsexuality
http://www.tsroadmap.com/index.htmlAnd Calperia Addam's site. Calpernia's lover, Barry, was murdered in his barracks by his Army's team mates because he dated and fell in love with a transsexual. Their story was told in the movie "Soldiers's Girl".
http://www.calpernia.com/I throw the gauntlet down, -CRaSH-. Learn about us. REALLY learn. This won't take more than a few hours of your time. But really get to know what we are really like. How we live and yearn to live. And how we are treated. To many, we are just ->-bleeped-<- on their shoes.
I don't claim to be an expert in black history. But I lived though the sixties. I experienced civil unrest first hand. I watched the cities burn on almost an annual basis. I watched the idea of civil rights become a cultural meme. And I have read some books. But I know that I will never know what you know. Or what discrimination you have experienced. But I learned, I have an idea. Now I ask you to do the same.
I cannot become black, and you cannot become trans. But together we could learn about each other.
-Sandy
