This morning, the "Today" show had a story about a M2F who was the nanny to two kids for quite awhile. Well, she kidnapped the two kids and was found walking with them down a highway.
I would guess that GG women have been caught kidnapping before. What made this a story worthy of national coverage is apparently the fact that "when they took her to the police station, they found out she was a man!" The sentence above was said in a tone like it was a crime to be TS.
Katie, who I've liked before this, described this as being "like Tootsie and Transamerica." Well, not exactly, Katie. "Tootsie was the kids' father and he never attempted to kidnap them. "Transamerica" was about a TS crossing the country with her own son to get him settled and to go to L.A. to have a GRS. None of these activities in the movies is a crime. And yet, because the perpetrator of the kidnapping was TS (living as a woman for 20 years), it got nationwide coverage -- so much for "Transamerica" being a "help" to us. They lost the whole point of the movie: That we are people, too -- that we are capable, just like any human, of doing good and bad.
It's no wonder, given stories like this, that many TS's "hide in the closet." The police who talked to the press said something like "things can be seen on the surface as one thing, and then be another." He probably was talking about her appearance as a woman "when they found out she was a man." But hopefully he meant that the TS had some compelling reason to do this. Obviously, none of us applaud kidnapping but none of us wishes to be singled out for nationwide coverage just because we're TS.
Like others in society, if you cut us, we bleed.
Teri Anne
