Not a pretty girl
by rserven
Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 04:31:33 PM PST

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/16/191438/739/424/685044

She arose silently from her bed and walked to the bathroom.  She stopped to stare at herself in the mirror.

Sh was old.  Sometimes she wondered how that had happen, but she had been aware that she was not aging all that gracefully for quite a few years.  Daily stress can do that to a person.

So can 44 years of being on testosterone.

Now, even 17 years later, the effects of that were still there in the face that looked back..  Nothing was going to undo that...except maybe thousands of dollars of facial reconstruction.  That was money she would never have.  So she made do with the rationalization that she hadn't wanted to stop recognizing herself anyway.

And nothing was going to change the fact that she was 6'4" tall.

good message.

I recommend this article to anyone looking for naked truths.  It encapsulates and lays bare there thought process behind the gay/lesbian animosity towards transgender.

This, for me, is the 'money' quote:

QuoteDeconstruction:  It's actually transwomen who I can tell are transwomen who make me uncomfortable.  The world should be about my comfort rather than about theirs.

Karen

What an incredible blog, bookmarked, and digging into it, some fascinating reading there.

Thank you for posting the link!

*huggs*,
Melan

I really liked the article. Yes, some of us are not beauty queens nor do we want to be. We are who we are. I'm not going to go under a knife to be what someone thinks I should be. Everyone has the right to their opinion but maybe they should keep their opinions to themselves. I'm a Human Being and deserve the same rights as others, that is all I want in this world. My Human Right.

I <3 Ani.

Every time I hear something about the LG part of LGBT discriminating against transpeople it makes me want to throw something.  The people who do this have obviously learned nothing from their own plight.  I despise how he [the gay man the author talks about] said he and his partner are more tolerated now, while the '->-bleeped-<-' isn't, as though that means he and his partner deserve to be more tolerated.  What?!  Since when do we measure what's acceptable or not by which ones of us bigots find most appealing?!

More people should write in opposition to that.  It was a good read.

An excellent blog, even for we beauty-queens who don't care that we are!!

Just a joke, please put away the kindling, the piles of firewood, the accelerants and the torchs. Really, just making a joke!!

The piece was absolutely wonderful. NO matter your sexual orientation or your sex/gender. 10 stars outta 5 possible stars for this!!

Nichole