10 Things You Don't Know About Transgender People
Source: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/10-things-didnt-know-trans-jvinc/
Author: Dillan DiGiovanni
Posted: Dec 22nd, 2014

"If you've seen it on TV or heard about it from your friends, you might think you've got this trans* thing figured out. So how about we take a closer look."

interesting

Thanks for posting this Marcellow, but I need to say that I hate it.

It comes across angry and accusatory. The people who really do want to know about us are often doing their best, but a lot of people have limited ability to see things from other people's perspective. That doesn't mean they're bad people, that they're not trying, or that they're willfully disrespecting us. Sure they could use some guidance, but not the veiled hostility in this article.

Because of that, I'm not inclined to show it to my cis friends.

Loved the article.  I don't feel so alone & isolated [ ] now that I know that a lot-of-what-we're-not is in agreement with my own thoughts on these matters.

However, I do sincerely believe that when in the throes of transition many (if not most?) approximate the majority of stereotypes refuted in this article.

Interesting article. Many of the items mentioned I've known for quite a while. The main point to me is that we just want to live our lives.

Quote5. There isn't a transgender community.

Scribo ergo est

Quote6. We don't want to read or watch every video or article about trans* people.

OMG THIS

My aunt get into these shows and news articles and expects that I am into them, I really don't care

Some good points but I'm inclined to agree with Suzi.

I didn't read the linked article because the last time I looked around the site (the "Good Men Project"), I was negatively impressed by it.  At the time, their unspoken agenda seemed to be about how Men(tm) might count as "good" without actually giving up any male privilege.  The notorious HS was a star there, too.

Has the site improved in the last 4-5 years?

I'm one of the "open and advocating" the article talks about (although on an individual basis, and only when asked), and one of the first things I make sure to point out is that we're all different, even if we do share a label. What I am doing for my transition, someone else might not.

But...no, I wouldn't share the article either. Not because of its tone (which I didn't perceive), but for the same reason many of us don't want to see YET ANOTHER video on trans*living etc etc. Cis-people probably get tired of the constant "trans*people are new, here's what they want" stuff. If someone asks me for such a thing, yeah I'd share it.

Quote from: Peebles on December 25, 2014, 02:14:03 PM
OMG THIS

Me too. I have a couple of friends that constantly bring up transgender related things they heard about recently to me. There is a lot more to me than the fact I am trans, and I really don't care to hear about trans stuff all of the time. Enough already!

Suzi: The feeling I got from the article is that the writer seems to be growing weary of dealing with the public and the way the public approaches trans issues, and because of that the article came out rather terse.

Quote from: Eva Marie on December 26, 2014, 09:42:00 PM
Me too. I have a couple of friends that constantly bring up transgender related things they heard about recently to me. There is a lot more to me than the fact I am trans, and I really don't care to hear about trans stuff all of the time. Enough already!

I have an aunt that does that. Plus, she's a bit of a moron so she constantly confuses things on top of that. Like, she knows one person that is a crossdresser and another that is just an effeminate guy. She always mixes all of this crap up and blabs about it to me. One day I got sick of listening to her babble on and on about this crap. So, I told her to "shut the hell up about this! I'm sick of hearing the same stuff over and over!" She was offended but I didn't care. I don't want to talk about anything to do with gender stuff, no matter what it may be. I passed that point in my life years ago.