Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Male to female transsexual talk (MTF) => Topic started by: MelissaAnn on December 26, 2015, 04:51:13 PM Return to Full Version

Title: Why Is It????
Post by: MelissaAnn on December 26, 2015, 04:51:13 PM
Why is it before my unmasking (Transition) when I would stand up for myself or someone else or if I spoke my mind I was considered strong and a leader but now I'm just a bitch? SMH...!
Title: Re: Why Is It????
Post by: Laura_7 on December 26, 2015, 04:59:22 PM
Here are a few resources that might help:
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,197523.msg1756901.html#msg1756901


I'd say don't let it get to you... don't take it personal, just be you...
keep on keeping on...


big *hugs*
Title: Re: Why Is It????
Post by: JoanneB on December 26, 2015, 05:13:12 PM
Several of my group members confirmed the rumors about 'Male Privilege'.

No one to date has been sent their copy of the 'Gay Agenda'  ;D  Batting 500 aint bad
Title: Re: Why Is It????
Post by: Dena on December 26, 2015, 06:01:27 PM
Welcome to the world of womanhood where strong leadership is bad and alliance building is good.
Title: Re: Why Is It????
Post by: Tessa James on January 01, 2016, 04:00:49 PM
Good question, with sexism and mysogyny being my quick answers.  This is one of the special gifts of being transgender for me.  To have lived "as a man" when I was often expected to "take charge" and now being incapable of even driving a car is really too funny.  My friends were quick with the sexist jokes when I first came out but that reveals more of their binary thinking than our truth.  One of the guys suggested that i should go hang in the kitchen with the other hens.  Cluck cluck. ;)

I am a community activist and am part of meetings where men now try to talk over me or dismiss me as emotional.  This is one reason I have not altered my voice much and can still whip out a resonantly vocal claim to the floor. 

Playing the great grandma card can be fun too.  It can be kind of a reverse bully pulpit and amusing to employ. 

I say enjoy the perspectives that few will ever know so deeply as we who have lived it.