Let me ask this just to start trouble Why do post-op people still use cartooons? If you don't like what you look like by now, what comes next? Or, if you are in deep stealth after SRS, what do you expect to learn from other ->-bleeped-<-s?

im not post op. but some just really cant pass to save their life and dont want to show their face. i know it sounds bad but...  ehhh

I think a lot of people just don't want their pictures floating around in cyber space associated with a transgender site. Some people are stealth for job related reasons or other personal reasons. That doesn't mean they don't still want to talk and share with other transgendered people. In fact, stealth people would feel safer communicating with others online.
As for me, I just wish I looked like Jackie Gleason. 

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I think a lot of people just don't want their pictures floating around in cyber space associated with a transgender site. Some people are stealth for job related reasons or other personal reasons. That doesn't mean they don't still want to talk and share with other transgendered people. In fact, stealth people would feel safer communicating with others online.

What he said.  Not everybody likes or wants to advertise their face on a TG website plus I've been a member of this site for 2 years & I didn't know it was requirement to post a piccie. 

Pretty much what  said.

But some people just like cartoon characters.

ditto.

QuoteI didn't know it was requirement to post a piccie

It's not.  Curiosity aside, why would - or should - anyone care what someone else looks like?

I have had too many people on the internet do stupid things to me (a rather long and very scary list).
No, thank you. I try to be as anonymous as possible on the internet until I get to know and trust someone.

Trust me, it's easy enough to attract stalkers without being trans or posting a picture.

Way back when the avatar was supposed to be a representation of yourself, something with meaning, but not a picture of you.  I hold to the old rules.

As to avatars, love yours Matilda. Mine is because I was/am a trekkie. As to pics, I'm with .

All very good points. I just asked a question, but I don't think that anybody should do anything they are not comfortable with. Because I used to facilitate a support group, this picture I use was already on a website and if you Google my real name, you get a lot of the stuff I was involved with in the community. I was paid by a not-for-profit substance abuse agency to be "out" as an outreach supervisor to the GLBTQ community, so a lot of people know my professional image. Interviews I did with TV and local papers about the program just become a link,so it would be hard to go stealth.

what , leslie & matilda said.  being stealth & posting your pics, personal info, on the web is like playing russian roulette. 

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so if you wanna take the risk, go ahead, have a ball.  miss goth isn't me btw.

It's a risk of being an activist. Google Joanne Keatley or Phyllis Frye. Once you are out your out. Beside I was paid to be out by the Feds under a Federal grant

Quote from: Matilda on July 29, 2009, 06:14:58 PM
Why?

Because some of us have built careers, relationships, friendships, an entirely new life in our true gender.  In the real world, some of us are only known as women not as "transgender".   Believe me, if I had NOTHING to lose, I would definitely post my pictures along with my actual name and real email address without any hesitation.  Unfortunately (or should I say fortunately?), that's not the case.

if you have a private life and a reputation to safeguard, the last thing you need is to be "seen" on a transgender website.  With all the events in the recent years/months such as Thomas Beatie, Gwen Araujo, Angie Zapata, Isis king, Chaz Bono, etc, etc., anyone could type transgender on google and stumble upon this site, and then what?  I would be screwed, and my life would be ruined in an instant.  No thanks, I'll pass.  I didn't transition, nor did I have SRS to be known as a ->-bleeped-<-.

Yeah...why would anyone want to be known as transgender. For some reason even though I put pictures of myself on my facebook..im embarassed to post my picture on this site :/

*thinks* I should see if I can make a cartoon pic of my self. and yes, the scary picture/avitar is a pictures of myself. o_0

I think people can put be free to put up want they want. To each his or her own.