Quote from: Edge on January 04, 2013, 11:35:47 AM
Oh yeah and my friend claimed that she and her family are ok with me being trans. Then how come they still refer to me as a girl?

This sort of thing bugs the hell out of me. It's not enough to simply say you're supportive...actions speak much louder than words

Quote from: big kim on January 04, 2013, 07:04:33 AM
He's been taking chromosomes to be a woman overheard in a shop yesterday by someone who should have paid more attention in biology lessons!

Were you also eating ovaries and a uterus? 

The menstrual cycle thing I find especially facepalmy. I had menstrual cycles for like 15 years and it was intense and complicated and not fun, but it didn't gender me. If it did that then I'd be just fine and wouldn't have to take hormones or have surgeries. Even happy ciswomen I know don't appear to consider periods part of their identity any more than pragmatically.

I was talking to a good friend over steam chat and revealed I am transsexual, but I don't know if he either took it as a joke or really meant to insult me with this one:

"And then you'll change back, right?"

Now why would I want to do that?

Someone who claimed to be an ally suddenly posted an aggressive attack in my group (the one group for trans people in our city) accusing us of speaking unfavourably about cis men and saying he was glad he didn't come if there was that kind of talk going on. He then got angry with me and said that he didn't want to be part of a group that supports that kind of thing and wouldn't let him defend his gender.
1. What he was accusing us of never happened. The thing he based it on was some vague mention of one member of the group's belief in gender roles. (Fyi, I think gender roles are sexist, but his reaction to it was way over the top.)
2. Which he'd know if he was actually there. Even the person he overheard talking which he based these claims on told him he got it all wrong. You'd think he'd listen. Nope.
3. His drama could have scared people away from the one trans group in our city.
4. We're the same gender! Why does he specify cis men? I'm just as much a man as he is!
5. I'm pissed off at him for something he has actually done and that I was present for and I'm still not going to write off the whole gay community just because he's in it.
6. He's glad he didn't come? I thought he liked me and our friend at least and we were both there. Ouch.
7. I don't support gender roles and I don't like being accused of it. I just don't feel that is reason enough to kick someone out of the only trans group available to her.

Someone asked my brother "So, uh, don't you think your brother/sister is weird?" He said "No, not really." She says "But aren't you sad? Don't you miss your sister?" He said "I don't really, because it isn't like that person is dead, he's just my brother now. I'm not sad at all."

Girl legitimately could not get it.

Hey Caleb, was she blond? 

Ok, know that I'm Ecuadorian before raging over this:

-No one has any jokes about Ecuador because they don't know we exist.
-Being Ecuadorian is a joke in itself.
-Ecuadorian? You're not Mexican?

I laugh at these jokes, despite being Ecuadorian. Chris Rock makes black jokes, Christopher Titus makes white jokes, etc.

Sometimes, people are too sensitive. 

Quote from: DianaP on January 13, 2013, 05:52:50 PM
Sometimes, people are too sensitive. 

Nah, only blondes 

Quote from: Beth Andrea on January 13, 2013, 07:15:27 PM
Don't bother answering, I'm pretty sure I know your answer...more excuses.

That's exactly what my mom said about me being trans; no kidding! Wow, you must be sensitive to psychic cues too! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Now now children no squabbling.

I got this from a woman last night. We were talking about sexual orientation.

Her: So, you are a lesbian from the waist up and straight from the waist down?


Yeah, she totally does not get much.

Quote from: Beth Andrea on January 13, 2013, 07:15:27 PM
Don't bother answering, I'm pretty sure I know your answer...more excuses.

I have a Jewish friend. Well, he's an atheist, but he's from a jewish family. Anyway, we call him jew and we love joking about it. He's the first who does it, don't get me wrong... it's not like we are bullying the kid. Actually, he's one of my very very very best friends of all time.

Today I took him to the train station. Right before he got in the train I told him "hey, you really don't know where this train goes, do you? Send me a postcard from Auswitz before they get you in the gas chamber!" We both laughed. Why? I don't know, it's our sense of humour. And the good thing about humour is that it's just that: humour. It's not like I'm feeding neo-nazi groups with excuses to perform an holocaust 2.0, just like I don't think Diana (or anyone from the XXI century actually) believes that blondes are actually dumber.

aw... sorry for the offtopic!

Lol, I wasn't expecting to walk back into a debate...I'm not aware of her hair colour.

Don't know if anyone else has said it yet but here's my most common line-

"If you like boys, then just stay a girl. Boys like girls!"
Being gay makes this so much more complicated to explain -_-

Quote from: Caleb. on January 13, 2013, 08:32:13 PM
Lol, I wasn't expecting to walk back into a debate...

Debate? What debate? 

By the way, how awesome would it be to wear a trench coat and a top hat while waiting in a parking lot and calling everybody "Mac?"

I said this in front of my mom and she said, "Girls don't like things like that."

Since when? 

Quote from: Ms. OBrien VT on January 13, 2013, 07:35:45 PM
Now now children no squabbling.

I didn't expect patronizing comments from a moderator...

I guess the fact I'm offended by blond "jokes" puts me in a minority position.

I'll just shut up then.

Actually Beth I made the comment to stop the debate.

Some don't care for jokes about certain portions of the public.  So please don't make jokes about any group.

10. Bashing or flaming of any individuals or groups is not acceptable behavior on this web site and will not be tolerated in the slightest for any reason. 

Beth has stated she is offended by blonde jokes, so no more posting them.

I had a passenger the other day, whom I hadn't seen in some time...before, she and I would have whole conversations...now she just says over and over, "And He made them male and female."



Funny thing is, when I first typed this on my phone to post, somehow it came out "And Zhe made them..." I felt I should change it to be accurate to the quite...but that's got to be like a Freudian slip or something...

Quote from: Beth Andrea on January 14, 2013, 12:00:33 PM
I had a passenger the other day, whom I hadn't seen in some time...before, she and I would have whole conversations...now she just says over and over, "And He made them male and female."

So she is acknowledging that God made you. Since he made you both male and female (male bodied, female minded). See, she totally accepts you.