tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post6810521905780029840..comments2011-10-22T18:04:02.914-07:00Comments on RainbowLady: IT'S TIME TO PHASE OUT THE TERM "TRANSSEXUAL"Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13209752980409304738noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post-69767389114439208692011-07-31T00:40:18.196-07:002011-07-31T00:40:18.196-07:00Coletta - thanks for the free psychoanalysis; you ...Coletta - thanks for the free psychoanalysis; you are too sweet. Don't quit your day job though.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209752980409304738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post-91239233665586914892011-07-29T06:40:15.034-07:002011-07-29T06:40:15.034-07:00First thought. Annie, you really shouldn't hav...First thought. Annie, you really shouldn't have transition much less had srs. Seems you made a very grave mistake. So the rest of your life is now going to be lived in a gender limbo misery. I feel so sorry for you. But this just goes to show how stupid men really can be.. especially when they let a fetish take over their mind as you clearly have. You can sugar coat it all you want, but it's very clear that the mo for your need to disqualify TS's is in effort to feel better about your own mistake. Guess if you make us all look like men pretending to be women you'll then be like us. One last word for you... FOOL!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04934601486294584853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post-43128897567101605382011-07-29T06:24:04.127-07:002011-07-29T06:24:04.127-07:00Excellent essay! For which you should be commended...Excellent essay! For which you should be commended, but will be castigated ( ironic, no? Lol ) by our Women Born Transsexual faction. Their insecurity, bitterness over their treatment as they transition have made them very angry and have assumed a stance reminiscent of the mad newsanchorman in "Network" <br />"I'm mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!"<br />Too bad that passion does not alter the truth. I will be the first to congratulate the transperson who successfully self generates viable "opposite from birth established gametes". Until then, it is a gender fluid world. Only one other option remains if retaining the changed sex label is so important to these folk. Get the rest of society to eliminate the aspect of "procreation" from the term "sex" entirely and forever. If limited to having innies and outies to lovemaking only, no babies involved, fine. Then the terms like breeder, carrier, egg and sperm donor will have to be used with no reference to sex at all. Good luck.<br />Roxanne Edwards, AIAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post-69662393194667875862011-07-29T04:20:43.141-07:002011-07-29T04:20:43.141-07:00In Germany, many people use "transidentified&...In Germany, many people use "transidentified" which is a word I'd love to bring into the discussion here. The word "transgender" is used as a very broad term, basically encompassing the whole trans* spectrum including transvestites etc. I, personally, dislike the word "transsexual" and I have my reasons for it, whereas others dislike other words and they have good reasons for it too. Quite a jungle, actually. I fear this discussion will never find a natural end.Yvaine de Winterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16683058223601100593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post-2383549555055180102011-07-19T19:08:43.040-07:002011-07-19T19:08:43.040-07:00You say you are 2/3 of the way through your real l...You say you are 2/3 of the way through your real life experience. This implies that you formerly presented as the "opposite" gender. Therefore, you are absolutely behaving in ways contrary to your former gender presentation. You are transiting the gender divide. You are transgressing expected gender roles. You have taken the opportunity to transcend gender norms. You are transgender. <br /><br />You are NOT changing your physical sex. This is impossible. So far, as a pre-op, you have done very little to alter anything of your sexual character. All you have probably done is take some hormones of the opposite sex. This may, or may not, have provided you with some secondary sex characteristic modification. (And, of course, to many of the transsexual separatists, you don't yet qualify as a "transsexual.") If and when you ever have GENDER reassignment surgery (and that IS how the surgeons who perform the operation refer to it) you will be rearranging some of the tissue of your genitalia. But you will not have changed your sexuality at the cellular level one iota. One hundred TRILLION cells in your body will still register exactly what you had in the womb. Moreover, sexual biology is ALL about procreation, yet you will NOT be able to produce the gametes of the opposite sex. You may have some new sexual accessories, but these do not in any way equal a complete sex change. Sorry to break the bad news. <br /><br />You claim your "gender identity" has never changed. Well, I don't know a thing about your personal history. If you, indeed, refused from the day you were born to accept the gender role dictated by your sexual biology, then good for you. But even in this case, you STILL are transgender, not transsexual. No human can change their sex. You can change your gender if you want, even at a very early age. Or you can be transgender, and have this mind/body dichotomy, yet choose never to do anything about it. However, you already told us that you are in the "real life experience" phase which implies that you did not challenge your gender role very early on but have lived, perhaps for decades and decades, as your birth gender. For all we know you have fathered 10 children, were a Navy SEAL, and love guns and bad beer. There are M-to-F "transsexuals" like that. The idea that you can just erase your own personal history does not fly. You lived it. Own it. And don't think for a minute you can just reach over and steal the identity of those who have lived the exact opposite. Although we are under no obligation to reveal our past to anyone and everyone, we must be honest with ourselves and family and friends. A transwoman will NEVER be a genetic woman, or a transman a genetic man. Our very transness makes us utterly unique and different from those who never had any incongruency in their mind/body identity. We are not better than them, just different... and closer to ALL others who also wish they could transit the gender divide, whether or not they ever do. <br /><br />I understand you really, really, really want to be the opposite sex. Just like many people really, really, really want to believe in Santa Claus. But wishing it were so doesn't make it so. I can empathize with those who want to believe in Santa Claus, and even go along with the charade when children are involved. But when they are adults they need to grow up and accept reality. Accept who you really are. No, I don't have much respect for those who willfully refuse to do that when properly informed. You have been informed.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209752980409304738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134629400074397469.post-47293871908774559762011-06-24T14:31:37.368-07:002011-06-24T14:31:37.368-07:00Hi there.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through my...Hi there.<br /><br />I'm about 2/3 of the way through my so-called "real life experience."<br /><br />I'm not transcending my gender, behaving in ways contrary to my gender, nor dressing in clothes which transcend my gender. Therefore, I am not transgender.<br /><br />What I am changing, is my physical sex. Therefore, I am transsexual. And it's not because I wish to dissociate myself from those who identify as transgender. It's because the transgender term is inaccurate as it pertains to me. You're correct that the gender identity is of utmost importance. And my gender identity has never changed nor been transcended.<br /><br />If you are truly as committed to equality, liberty, community, and diversity as you purport to be, you'll respect that.Falinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07006373893076810290noreply@blogger.com