"To some it is a rude concept. To some it is a socio-political issue. To the transsexual, it can make the difference between forever being a object or living a comfortable life.  Passing increases survivability and overall happiness for the transsexual. Passing is composed of a physical side and a behavioral side. Earliest possible use of hormones is the best guarantee of physical passability. Unlearning sex roles and expressing natural, inborn gender behavior is the most important part of successful behavioral passing".  Raven Caldera

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education. ---Tony Blair---

Well, i think if you're going to do something and don't do it , thats trust worthiness. The American president George W Bush

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Albert Schweitzer

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spitwads are not free speech. bart simpson

Hi Blanche,  Wow so much of what is being discussed here was very much what I feared before I transitioned 8 Years ago. The decision was overnight where I went and put all my male clothes in a garbage bag then took them to Salvation Army to exchange for female clothes. That night I had all these horror story thoughts go through my mind. They're going to take a baseball bat to my knees, shoot me in the back, throw rocks at me, or maybe if I get lucky it will only be rotten veggies thrown at me. Well maybe get my pic and name in the National Enquirer as well .

Well the next day I went to work as the inner me, the real me and not a thing was said, except  only I was called upstairs by my boss and she was more concerned about my safety then anything else. By the way this was a small country town where everyone knows everyone. Now I was either very lucky that people are to preoccupied with their lives to notice, or I was just to tiny, skinny little runt of girl to be noticed.

After about one week it is just a routine thing we do in the morning, get dressed do up ones hair, dab on a bit of make up and run down and jump in the car and scram before you are late for work .

Cindy 

There's a powerful political faction in this country that's determined to draw exactly the wrong lesson from the Katrina debacle - namely, that the government always fails when it attempts to help people in need, so it shouldn't even try. ...The thing about conservative governance is that it can succeed by failing: when conservative politicians mess up, they foster a cynicism about government that may actually help their cause.

Paul Krugman

Beverly

Remember your power and trust it.

Unknown


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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.    Diane Akerman                     

To garden, you open your personal space to admit a few, a great many, or thousands of plants which exude charm, pleasure, beauty, oxygen, conversation, friendship, confidence, and other rewards should you succeed in meeting their basic needs. This is why people garden. It can be easy but challenging, and the rewards are priceless.

Tom Clothier

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I wish we lived in a world where we could choose our own gender; until then it is much easier to change a body than to change one's heart and soul.

Unknown

Source:  True Selves by Kate Bornstein.


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Think wrongly, if you please , but in all cases think for yourself.    Dorris Lessing

Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.

Bertrand Russell


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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. 

Ogden Nash

Beverly

If you want to have sex, the kids will have to leave. If you want it to be good, then you will have to leave. al bundy. married w/children

I'm not present
I'm the drug that makes you dream
I'm an Aerostar
I'm a Cutlass Supreme
In the wrong lane
Trying to turn against the flow
I'm the ocean
With the giant undertow

Neil Young

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character --- Albert Einstein

Quote
Well, I rapped upon a house
With the U.S. flag upon display
I said, "Could you help me out
I got some friends down the way"
The man says, "Get out of here
I'll tear you limb from limb"
I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"

Bob Dylan's 115th dream

When a stupid person is doing something s/he is ashamed of, s/he always declares that it is his/her duty.   

George Bernard Shaw

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What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Shana Alexander

Beverly

remember you can always find east by looking directly to the sun. bart simpson