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I have no stake in the gender debate.
Though I will admire those who will continue their fight against the transgender, I for one have come to the conclusion that it is futile to try and convince a group of transvestites anything. The transgender are fully wrapped up in intractable group think delusion.
IF…I had a penny for every time I was called a homophobe by the GLB and homosexual transgender I could afford a very nice vacation to Peru. Even though myself and others have consistently said that homosexuals should lobby and rally for whatever right it is that they don’t have yet feel they should, it appears that by standing up for our own heterosexual orientation we are somehow homophobes. Objecting to gay men speaking for us is somehow relegated to the demon category. Having issues with lesbian feminists speaking to the gender debate is shouted down. Our speaking up to this steamroller is silenced…by the gays, the lesbians, and the transgender.
Being called a homophobe is insulting. We are no more homophobic that the homosexuals are pedophiles.
Guest Post By Leigh Smith
On Fear and Hate
Hardly an article goes by on any transgender/GLB blog that doesn’t speak of the hatred and bigotry shown to the transgender by society at large. They are all convinced that society is out to get them, to discriminate blindly against them, to hurt them and to ridicule them and to make them feel inhuman.
I wonder where all this hatred is. Frankly I don’t see it, and apart from a very small percentage of the population who would hate anyone, even and including their own parents, I am not sure it really exists except in the mind of the transgender who drink the lemming Kool Aid served up by the numerous activists and leaders in the GLBT.
Is an end to the gender debate possible? Can the continuing conflict between the transgender and classic transsexuals ever be settled? Consider the positions:
I’ve mentioned before that I attempted to transition twice before finally succeeding and going on to have GRS…both attempts lasted a couple of years…both attempts failed. Forty years ago I was 19 when I first tried to transition, just before I became a licensed hairdresser. I had cross dressed for virtually my entire life; I had the basics of hair and makeup down pat by the time I graduated high school. But, full-time transitioning and part time clandestine crossdressing while an adolescent and teen are two entirely different things. When I first transitioned, I learned very early on what was required to get on in the world. And, though I never worried about it much, I very much did want to “…get on in the world.” Suffice to say, passing was very important to me, but it had no bearing on whether or not I would transition…that was a given. It’s just I’ve never been under any illusions about whether I pass or not. However, there are many who are somewhat delusional about the issue of passing.
Since I first wrote about Miss Jasper Gregory last Thursday in “This is What a Transwoman Looks Like” there have been numerous blog essays about this person. Will Miss Jasper ever go away? Well, I for one hope Miss Jasper doesn’t, but not for the reasons some may think. I think Miss Jasper Gregory is the best thing since sliced bread and here’s why.
“Hey sweeties”… straight from the horse’s mouth…THIS is what a trans woman looks like. Meet Jasper, a transgender sister who is not bashful in giving us a perfect lesson in what a transgender woman really is. Miss Jasper is just as female as anyone else. What? You don’t believe it? Well, just ask any GLBT activist or advocate and they will tell you their sister, Miss Jasper, is right. Go ahead. I dare you. But don’t bother going to Miss Jasper’s web site. Our group has already given it a shot and our comments never made it out of the site’s moderation files.
Ms. Jasper is absolutely right about one thing though…strictly speaking for myself, I very much do “claim the difference…” from this pathetic, fetish driven, transgender sister.
Recently, after commenting on a September 2, 2009 TS-Si guest post by Suzan Cooke entitled Classic Transsexual, among other things I questioned the wisdom of believing anyone’s internet narrative unless it was substantiated/proved, I was told this by Cathryn Platine:
“You Susan, are just electrons impacting on a cathode ray tube to me…..I’ve never met anyone who knows you personally so should I, according to your own standards, just believe you are some random guy in a stained wifebeater tee, swilling beer claiming to be a woman on the internut?” That’s what I’m left with using your criteria….. I’ve noticed that those who make such statements (“I don’t believe anyone’s life stories without proof”) often do so from what is called “projection” in psychology, especially on the internut. It comes from seeing in others that we know to be true of ourselves.”
My response was:
“You can, and should, assume anything you damn well like, Cathryn, who knows, you might be righter than you think.”
I guess many are simply out of sync.
Perhaps we should have some T-shirts made. In hot pink with black letters we could have printed on the front of them:
I’M PROUD TO BE TRANSGENDER
I’M NOT REALLY FEMALE
I’M A TRANS FEMALE
I’M SPECIAL
And, then on the back:
I’M NOT A REAL WOMAN
I’M A TRANS WOMAN
YOU BELIEVE IT
IT’S TRUE
Yes! Now that is a shirt the transgender could be proud of. That will certainly assuage the mainstream’s misgivings that the transgender are nothing but a bunch of mind screw freaks. Perhaps we should order them right away…
And then give them away to every transgender we can. I’m sure they would appreciate it. After all, the transgender are proud to be something other than female…they are proud to be transgender.
