Sure You Can

Question:  Autumn Sandeen, can you say… BITCH SLAP ? 

Consider this comment by an LA Metblogs contributor: 

Positions

Often, positions are skewed.  For no other reason than this is my blog, I need to clarify the positions of  Enough Non-Sense and, by implication, my position on the issues at hand. 

Nightmare

Things that go bump in the night…

It’s all about sex.

UPDATE:  01-15-08

As one of our detractors made this comment:

”Wow. You all seem to have it ALL figured out. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with the rest of us, especially us “fags,” “goons,” “pricks,” and others.”

Aside from the obligatory “Thank You”, I am impelled to say that though we might not have it all  figured out, we’re further along in reaching that end than he is, emphasis mine:

“Two of the reasons it took me so long to figure out that I was FtM was 1) I never felt “trapped in the wrong body.” In fact, I always liked my body other than it seemed to lead people to mis-identify me. And 2) I was always sexually attracted to people, not genders. Which in a world where sexual attraction is considered a gender-maker, just made it much more confusing to figure out who I was.”

Read the “rest of the story” HERE. If it wasn’t such a statement on much of what the mainstream sees dysfunctional about transsexuals, it would be amusing…instead of pathetically sad and unfortunate.

Why? This is Why

We often wonder just why  society has a skewed and screwed take on transsexuality.  Why is that?

Because of utterly and completely ridiculous definitions such as THIS ONE:

OK, so what is transsexuality?

Simply, having a gender identity that differs from societal perceptions of the body’s gender.

Now, under that reasoning, think of all the gender screws who just became instant  transsexuals.

More Non-Sense…of the absolute worst kind!  And, from a site I thought more of.  I seriously wished I could take my  weblog votes back.  This is pathetic.

Sign THE PETITION…and lets end this type of overly simplistic generalization.

TG Failure of the Real-Life Test

For most of us who are true transsexuals  and of whom have had Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS), there are several terms, people, or phrases that are burned into our memory.  Dr. Harry Benjamin, The Transsexual Phenomenon, HBIGDA (Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association now known as WPATH , the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Inc.), and the Standards of Care (SOC) are a few of them.  Most of us remember these people, terms, phrases or acronyms because they represented the people and organizations that in one way or the other guided us out of the living hell we experienced prior to transitioning and surgery.  For me personally the light shown most brightly when I stumbled upon a copy of The Transsexual Phenomenon  in early 1968 and instantly realized exactly where I fit in with the scheme of things; it was a lot like blindly bouncing off the walls of a fully enclosed concrete maze for seventeen years and then quite unexpectedly finding oneself handed a key to escape it.