Susan's Place Transgender Resources

Letters (blog)

http://transpartner.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/letters/
03/12/2008

"I mailed 4 transgender activist letters today while Ram and I were in Victoria for an appointment with the endocrinologist who will design his testosterone therapy dosage program. It was auspiciously timed to have coordinated (by chance) this momentous interview with a call to action to the provincial government"

In my experience, many of the transgendered people I have met are totally removed from society.  They are inept in social interaction and unskilled.  I truly believe that this GID we deal with incapacitates us to such a degree as they can not fully function as a productive member of our population.

This is not the case with many who post here.  We are the few who have the where with all to at least be able to pay for a computer and internet services. I believe that we are the few of the many.

Public funded health care that helps us deal with this issue could put many more tax dollars in the coffer.  I would sincerely like to see a study confirm this opinion.  This condition can usually be resolved with surgery.  Yes, it costs a few thousand dollars.  But the return is much greater.

Cindi

I believe that we are the few of the many.

I think you are correct in this.

Cindi,
You are so right. Now, how many here are able to go out and not fear getting a job as their own gender? There are a few here and yet some have the capabilities to get things, from their parents or loved ones. We live in fear all the time and it is not right. Even after surgery, there are those who still live in fear. Yes, a little money put in the right spot can make some very intelligent people very prosperous for everybody. I hope someday this will be something of the past and people will laugh at it and think how proposporus this all was.
Sheila

I have also noticed that in raw intelligence, those in fringe groups tend to rate higher in intelligence.  That doesn't mean that we are smarter.  It doesn't mean that we are more successful.  It means that we have the potential to be so.  We just need to cross this one hurdle before we can make it work for us.

Maybe, just maybe,  "they" know it and are afraid that we'll take over the world ;)

Cindi

I doubt that.  It might often seen that way, but most people in fringe groups want to think that.  And it begs the question of what is raw intelligence in the first place.  Academic skills?  Life skills (opps, we've ruled that out already).  Or practical/mechanical skills?  We love to think that the the professor who understands the universe (but not the mechanics of a sox drawer, or else they might match) is smart, but Bo and Cletus down at the garage are not.  Though when the professors car don't work, Bo to the rescue.  Bo and Cletus on the other hand don't give a rat's ass for the universe - rightly knowing, that it does not matter to them.

Tekla,

It may seem that way to me I suppose.  My favorite composers were all pretty much on the fringe of society.  It seems as though they didn't fit in.  My favorite artists were that way as well.  Perhaps I am just drawn to people who are weird.  That's okay cause I like them no matter what anyone else says.

Cindi

Hey I have a rule at work that goes like this.  If I like them, they are history.  If I love them, they will never be heard from again.  But if they suck, they are the next big thing.