What Are We? Transsexuality and Other Human Beings: The Real Deal
Posted September 29, 2008

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It was one of THOSE weekends. Is that plainer? My partner and I have had a struggle lately and yesterday we spent about three hours away from the boys just hashing things out. I was trying to get together an essay to write today in the afternoon and got a really nice comment from someone I've also met in "real life." Then the biggie, the one I sat and ranted and cried about, after already crying a great deal, for hours last night. Then I got a call, after emailing a pretty broad hint, from a very good friend and we chatted about what I was then crying about. Finally I got a letter that said:

    And I also think, that even though you and I both don't ever say it outright - it would be rude - that there is a hell of a difference in saying "I was/am a ______ " and I'm trying to make it to that" and "I really, really am a failure at being a _________, hence, I should be the other." 

    That, is a very different deal than being a ->-bleeped-<-.  A real ->-bleeped-<- loves and worships the other, rather than hating what they are, and that's a huge difference, and we have many that run on hate, not love and worship.  They don't really want to be men [/women], and I mean "Men"[/"Women"], they just don't want to be girls [/boys.]  And they fail to realize that the grownup part of male is 'man' not 'boy'.

    But, you are the real deal, you knew what you were and became it. 

OK, let me try this, Z. 

Posted September 29, 2008

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As my friend, Zoe Brain, says, it's not as certain as the [First Law of Thermodynamics] (actually she used some other scientifically-accepted theory/law) but it is as certain as the Theory of Gravity in which we cannot define, exactly the force, but we know it's there and how it works. So, at the risk, I'm willing to take it, of puncturing the "scientific" credentials of Kenneth Zucker, Paul McHugh, Ray Blanchard, Anne Lawrence, J. Michael Bailey as well as various individuals with a transsexed history: the brain-sex theory is a fact.

Transsexuals have brain-maps that mirror the brain-maps of those cissexual people we identify ourselves with. Pretty simple, really. That some, listed above, psychologists and psychiatrists want to deny that people have brain-sexes based on Rohrschach Tests, neo-Freudian faith and their own prejudices amounts not to a hill of beans.