Trans community hoaxes: 20 clues and how to avoid getting scammed

http://www.tsroadmap.com/early/online-hoaxes.html

Part of my series on Transgender web safety and fake internet transsexuals.

In June 2009, a "transkid" murder hoax perpetrated by "KuryousKyooty" aka "Rachel" aka "Roo" aka "Raychel Edeyn Wilson" was greatly exacerbated after being spread by a number of normally credible people who didn't bother to confirm any basic facts independently:

Repeating these rumors without any independent verification is the height of irresponsibility for citizen journalists. These kinds of hoaxes do incredible damage to the community at large and to the credibility of the people who post them without any independent verification. These hoaxes and unconfirmed reports cheapen the real violence our community faces, and they make people less likely to take us seriously in the future.

and http://www.tsroadmap.com/early/transgender-hoaxes.html

Hmmm, i went through the list and have come to the conclusion that.... and this is hard for me to wrap my head around and accept but........ I must be a hoax.   

Well to be fair I never said I was 100% passable, just that I do not normally have issues. Never stated that I was IS just that one testing item was inconclusive and I had no desire to go down that road as it was not important to my identity.

None of you really know me at all and not a single person on this site has ever met me even though I have bounced off and on through the various versions of the site. I claim PTSD because... well, that is what the doctors think. I am online constantly. I have a LJ  but keep it private and among a few select individuals. When I started out I was one of the younger ones around and have mentioned that I have a hard time relating to the older crowd even though I am now one of the older crowd. Oh and I do claim privacy for a number of reasons including having a few crazies in my past.

So kind of 50 50 I guess.