The too cute CAT…

and

The WOODPECKER.

Bilerico removed THIS POST….

Then Bilerico attempted DAMAGE CONTROL…HERE, HERE, and HERE… 

Before their total CAPITULATION…

The oberservation?

Well…

Though my comment wasn’t published, I made the following observations:

1.   The negative comments to Ron Gold’s post were almost, to the one, in all of the essays, from the transgender themselves…not the GLB as a whole.

2.   Surely the transgender realize they have almost no support in any of Bilerico’s essays from the GLB…or any forum.

3.   Once again, gay men are speaking to transgender and classic transsexual issues when they have no insight into them and SHOULD NOt DO SO.

4.   Where was the support from the gays and lesbians for the transgender in all of these blog posts…certainly not in any of the comment sections?

5.   The transgender, in spite of the above are so insecure they still support the GLBT contruct as of it was a “blanky nite nite.”

What a sad, pitiful group the transgender are…a bunch of clowns.  A major GLB blog posts a blog essay of the worst content, by an honest gay man, only offending the transgender, the blog essay in question was de facto supported by the GLBT as a whole due to the lack of a a groundswell of gay and lesbian criticism of the post…and still the poor transgender are quick to forgive and absolutely continue to support the very construct that defames, crtiticizes, and denies, in the worst of ways, their very existance.

What a hoot, ROFL…those silly queers.

Don’t you?

I am a Christian; I am quite pleased with that.  I’m not so pleased that I’m not a better one…but I continue trying to improve. 

Perhaps, if not probably and singularly, the reason I exited the gender debate was because of that fact.  Though my position on the issues had not changed, I felt I could no longer justify the teachings of Christ with the angry, hurtful, and often hateful way I was expressing myself on my blog. 

Though I was forced to attend Church quite often before the age of fifteen or so, I seldom did after that time.  Nonetheless, for the next thirty one years I spoke to the general concept of religion and specifically to Christianity as though I was the authoritative source on all things spiritual.  The reality was that I was about as ignorant as one could be when it came to those subjects, particularly Christianity. 

There came a time a few years before my final transition that I became aware, in a most conscious and sudden way, there was something terribly missing in my life spiritually.  It was a time in my life when I could be and often was other people’s very worst nightmare.  I had a dark side that others recognized, one that even my close friends not only disliked, but feared.  But then things changed dramatically.  Please indulge me. 

In the Holy Bible, there is the Book of Job; the author of the Book is thought to be Moses.  The Book of Job explains why God allows righteous people to suffer.  The gist of the Book of Job is quite simple.  God thought the very best of Job saying “Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”  Satan, on the other hand, says to the Lord that Job is such a righteous and upstanding person because God has blessed him and can prove it; Satan counters by saying “But put forth thine hand and touch [remove/destroy] all that he [Job] hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.”  The Lord essentially says okay to this and Satan’s challenge sets up the testing of the faith of Job.  Subsequently, and in very, very quick succession, Job’s oxen were stolen, his servants were killed, his sheep were killed, his camels were stolen, and his children were killed.  The Bible says Job’s response to this unforeseen and out of the blue turn of events was “…the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.  In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”  But that wasn’t enough, Satan requests, and is granted, permission from the Lord to test Job’s faith a second time.  This time Satan causes boils and sores to appear all over his body “…from the sole of his foot unto his crown.”  The Bible says “In all this did not Job sin with his lips.”  Though he had absolutely no idea why things were occurring as they were, Job never lost his faith in the Lord, instead choosing to believe there was a reason for his misfortune and things would turn out for the best when the Lord saw fit.  This is where “The patience of Job” saying comes from.

Back to my story… 

And, then one day it started.  I’ve share much of this with a few others, but the exact details are not important, not to mention quite private, but over the course of just a couple of months I lost everything, and I mean everything on every level, that was ever dear to me.  Day after day, after day, after day, after day I took a major hit.  It got to the point that I would wake up in the morning and wonder what major catastrophe would happen that day; and sure enough, something completely unimaginable and very major would slap me down.  My life, that I felt I was so much in control of, went in to a death spiral at a speed I could have never, ever expected it to.  The outcome, at least in my mind, could easily parallel the story of Job above…with one exception:  I was not the innately good and believing, God fearing person Job was. 

Again, though the details are not important, this sudden and abrupt turn of events coincided with the knowledge that had gnawed at me for the previous few years that something was missing in my life.  I was at my wits end.  My world was not just disrupted, but absolutely and utterly destroyed.  For the life of me, I had no real idea why, and not the faintest clue as to how to stop the storm…which was still in its full fledged fury.  Then one day a guy whom I had worked with previously and knew I was having an extremely difficult time gave me a Bible; no one had ever given me a Bible.  I started reading it.  It was a study Bible, complete with both a Hebrew and Greek lexicon.  I was not working.  Though not starting at Genesis and ending at Revelation but in a suggested study sequence I obtained, over the next fifteen months I read and intensely studied the Bible and Christianity…often for hours and hours days on end.  I used the lexicon extensively, looking up a key word to try and understand the Hebrew or Greek translation from which it came.  I became immerged in actually understanding Christianity, checking off book after book on the study guide when I felt I had a grasp of its meaning.  In total, over that fifteen months I read and studied the King James version of the Bible three times, cover to cover, and the New English translation once.  The more I studied, the more I tried to live by this book and the teachings of Christ. 

And my life changed…agonizingly slow at times, but each day was better than the previous one. 

And, now, to go back to the Book of Job…Job kept his faith in spite of loosing everything he had ever worked for…he had patience…he waited on the Lord to act…he continued to worship…he continued to try and do the right thing.  What was his reward for all his suffering?  The “Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before” … ”and every man also gave him a piece of money, and ever one an earring of gold” …the Lord blessed him with “fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand oxen, and a thousand she asses” …and he was blessed with “seven sons and three daughters”.  And, finally, he was blessed with a very long life. 

Was I rewarded for my Faith and patience?  Yes, I was.  In way more ways than one, I am not even close to being the same person I was twenty years or so ago.  I have been blessed in more ways than there is memory on this computer.  I have been more successful than I have ever felt possible. 

But, what, one might ask, is the point of this essay? 

Well, during the time that I was trying to learn about Christianity I attended Church.  For the first time in my life I actually understood what the minister or priest was actually saying.  I still attend Church, though it seems my career as a contract engineer makes it more and more difficult to attend as I move around so much.  Also, I now understand Christianity, realizing many, many years ago that all that time I spoke to Christianity as if I was an authority the truth was I knew nothing about it at all. 

But, even more, it saddens me to see so many of the blogs openly mocking and criticizing Christianity…often uselessly.  I see so many who appear and respond just as I did many years ago.  If a minister or priest makes a controversial statement, Christianity as a whole takes the hit not just the minister or the person (member of the Church).  The members of Christianity are defined as “the Church”; the Church does not define Christianity…and any minister or priest is just one more member of the Church, a mortal man…a sinner, who carries no more weight with the Lord than anyone else on the planet.  When a so-called “man of God” falls, it is not Christianity that has failed but the man.  Throughout the history of Christianity these men of God have fallen over and over again.  They have not fallen due to Christianity, but due to using their political influence and position within the Church as a shield.  A shield which they erroneously think will somehow protect them from the wrath of the Lord.  Their position of political influence, leadership, and position will no more protect them from the Lord than a piece of tissue paper would protect one from a thermonuclear blast…and so, they fall from grace…often at the speed of light…their shield vaporized. 

It is not Christianity that is the adversary, but some members of the Church.

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Mike Penner, a long time news/sports journalist with the Los Angeles Times, committed suicide.  Mr. Penner gained notoriety when he publicly announced his gender transition in that newspaper.  His attempt at transitioning failed and a year or so later he resumed writing for the LA Times using Mike Penner as his pen name. 

I would hope that no one holds anything but sympathy, compassion, and condolences for Mr. Penner, his family, and friends. 

Suicide is simply tragic.  My very best friends lost their daughter when, after a seemingly wonderful weekend with her family, she kissed them goodbye – smiling and waving – before what was to have been the twenty three mile trip back to college in her car, a routine that had happened countless times on countless weekends before.  But…instead, immediately after climbing into her car, she drove nine straight hours and six hundred miles to Oklahoma, got a Taco Bell dinner to go, checked into a seedy motel, and ate most of the fast food…before then downing three quarters of a fifth of cheap vodka and then putting her father’s .44 magnum pistol squarely under her chin and pulling the trigger. 

I was the first to get the news from my friends.  I was the first of many to arrive at their house just as fast as I could drive there.  Never had I experienced real grief until that moment I walked into my friend’s home, less than an hour after they had received word from local law enforcement of their only daughter’s senseless death. 

There was no suicide note or, for that matter, no conceivable reason any of us could imagine for this beautiful young lady to have ended her life in such a most final, exactly and obviously planned manner…none.  Yet, it did occur. 

The net says this about suicide: 

“A suicide is a clear indication that something is gravely wrong in a persons life…it is true that most people who commit suicide hafve a mental or emotional disorder…Eight out of ten suicidal persons give some sign of their intentions.” 

“Suicide may occur for a number of reasons, including depression, desperation, emotional pressure, physical pain, shame, guilt, anxiety, financial difficulties, or other undesirable situations.” 

“People who kill themselves see this as the only remaining solution to their problems…Ninety percent of the people who commit suicide have a mental or substance abuse disorder (or both).  More than half of the people who kill themselves are seriously or clinically depressed.” 

“Prolonged life circumstances of extreme stress, emotional upset, abuse, poverty, terrible living conditions, neglect, poor health, injury, disability – especially with no apparent hope of change or improvement can and do precipitate depression and suicidal thoughts for some…what is not commonly known is that suicidal thoughts are an involuntary affliction!  We don’t choose to think of them.  Suicidal thoughts just enter, they just come into your mind on their own.” 

“People at risk of suicide come from a wide variety of backgrounds.  There is not a special set of characteristics or personality traits that are common to all suicides.”

“Several thousand articles and books have been written about the cause and prevention of suicide.  For the purpose of understanding…there are essentially five reasons why people attempt [or succeed in] suicide: 

     Change:  Suicide is a way to change how the person feels or what is happening in their life at that moment. 

     Choice:   To assert or make a choice during circumstances in which there are no choices or important choices are being taken away. 

     Control:  The suicidal act is meant to stop the person’s behavior, to control events or to effect some change in others. 

     Self Punishment:  Suicidal behavior is a means to relieve guilt or punish the person for their actions. 

     Punish Others:  The suicidal act is intended to inflict harm and punishment on others. 

     Psychotic Illness:  The suicidal act is the result of strange and bizarre beliefs that are caused by mental illness or a severe medical problem.” 

It doesn’t take a great leap of intellect to grasp that those who commit suicide can, and do, inexplicably kill themselves for about as many different reasons as there are grains of sand in the Saharan desert. 

Question #1: 

So, with an almost infinite number of reasons why people choose to kill themselves, but with very precious few within the GLBT actually and intimately knowing Mike Penner and his personal life situation (other than he failed after a very short attempt at gender transition even though by all accounts his transition was supported by his employer and associates) would anyone like to speculate what the GLBT almost universally think his reason for suicide was? 

Question #2:  

Why would the GLBT after all the brouhaha that starts with the “The Associated Press Styleguide says…” continue to refer to Mike Penner in their essays and blog comments in terms such as A.K.A. Christine, f.k.a. Christine, and use pronouns like she and her when clearly Mike Penner was male, identified as male, and had a male name…in violation of the very AP Styleguide the GLBT advocate? 

Perplexing, isn’t it?

And, just what did the GLBT expect?

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.

The transgender are constantly harping about the world not allowing them to be what they really are: women.  On the face, that is patently absurd.  No one is trying to stop the transgender from being what they “really are.”  Any man on the face of the earth is quite welcome to get up each morning, put on a dress, and proclaim they are a woman.  What the transgender are really saying is that the world will not recognize them as women.  And, of course they won’t…because what they really are…are men.  No female walks around with a cock in their panties.  No female wants to walk around with a cock in their panties; just the thought would drive a real female insane.  The transgender feel that walking around with a cock in their panties is incidental to being female.  To bad, the rest of the world feels differently and always will.  I’m in that “rest of the world”.  Why should I continue to try to convince a group of delusional fetish driven men that they are not what they say they are?  The truth is that it’s ridiculous to try.  Society has long wrapped their intellect around the concept of transsexuals who have an urgent need to change their body, and do, because they were born with the wrong anatomy.  But no one is ever going to buy into the concept of transgender men being women just because they say they are.  Just as it is meaningless for me to argue with this deranged group, it is just as fruitless for them to try to convince society they are really female.  Society doesn’t buy it.  Heck, even the vast majority of the GLB doesn’t buy it.  Homosexuals have no real sympathy for the transgender.  The transgender are just numbers in the GLB political agenda; that’s been illustrated more times than Carter has pills.  As soon as the GLB get their precious same-sex marriage and ENDA, the transgender will be without an island. 

Often, the transgender refer to employment legislation and other discrimination to point out that society is changing.  They fail to admit that in spite of such laws their stature hasn’t changed.  They are still seen as men in dresses.  They still can’t get jobs.  And, they are still ridiculed when they are in public.  And that will still continue.  Hate crime legislation is going to do absolutely nothing to stop the assault on the transgender prostitute out on a lonely street in the early morning hours.  I predict that legislation will continue to be passed to protect the transgender.  What the transgender can not understand is legislation is in no way legitimization or acceptance, only a political accommodation.  Tolerance is not acceptance; and tolerance is the very best the transgender can ever hope for.  Mainstreaming will never happen for them; no one in society is ever going to recognize the transgender as female…never…ever.  It’s pure fantasy for the transgender to ever think otherwise.  It is nauseating to read there blogs and the self aggrandizement they heap on each other.  They talk to themselves and have absolutely succeeded in perpetuating the delusion that what they say is reality.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

The very vast majority of the transgender are homosexual.  With very, very few exceptions, heterosexual post op transsexuals want nothing to do with the GLBT.  They see the GLBT essentially the same as the rest of society, i.e., a group of sex driven queers.  No male-to-female non op transgender is ever going to have a straight relationship unless it is with a natal female in spite of what they often preach.  Homosexual transgender non ops in love with other homosexual transgender non-ops are not lesbians, they are homosexual men who dress badly as females.  Straight men are not attracted to cocks in panties.  Virtually all of the TG activists are homosexual, whether post op or non op.  Huge, huge numbers of the transgender are romantically involved with other transgender.  Often the justification for that is something along the lines of “…only another transgender could understand me.”  It’s very difficult to argue with that for society looks as a man in a dress, claiming to be in love with another man in a dress, and the both of them claiming to be lesbian as about as bat shit insane as it gets.  Why should I continue debating the transgender when I see their situation the same as the rest of society? 

No, the transgender live in one huge day to day fetish driven fantasy world.  They think if they can circumvent the birth certificate laws and obtain a birth certificate with female on it then they are female…when all they are is a man with a fake and fraudulent piece of paper.  The Dysonnances and Sandeens and Helms and Roberts and Abernathys of the world can say all day long that they pass and are “never” clocked, but their pictures and videos say otherwise.  They simply can’t understand that passing as a female has little to do with beauty and everything to do with demeanor.  They shout privilege; they draw it like a sword.  They use it to slam those of us who do pass and have assimilated into the mainstream insinuating that if we didn’t spend all that money on FFS we’d pass no better than they do.  That is simply BS.  Women know women, and they also know what a man pretending to be a woman is: transgender.  The transgender can say until the cows come home that they are “just like” post op transsexuals who have successfully integrated into the mainstream when the truth is that they are anything but being “just like” those of us who have our GRS, get legitimate birth certificates, and then merge in with society. 

The transgender are at their best playing the victim card.  To hear them speak one would think pretty much everyone but the transgender themselves are perching in trees waiting to draw a bead on the next drag queen that surfaces.  The TG vocabulary often appears to be limited to just a few words that all of them use.  Anyone who doesn’t agree with their twisted views of sex and gender are self loathing, homophobic, transphobic, bigoted, discriminating haters.  It’s almost as though they can’t utter a sentence if it doesn’t contain an insult.  If they can’t get a job then they are being discriminated against.  If someone challenges their “men can become pregnant/women have cocks” insanity then the person is self loathing.  If one disagrees with same-sex marriage then they are homophobic.  If they are openly ridiculed in public for looking and behaving like cartoon characters then the public is transphobic.  All of the above are examples of bigotry, at least to the transgender.  The transgender and maladjusted post ops never seem to stop and think that they might not be looked at with skepticism because they are men in dresses, but because they are simply ridiculous in their presentation while at the same time offering up some of the most asinine philosophies imaginable to the mainstream.  Instead of having their gender issues being incidental to their lives, it is their lives and base personal being that is incidental to their gender issues.  Their whole entire life is being transgender…they radiate it.  Few have the intellect to understand that no one is going to be sympathetic to anyone who wears their issues as a badge of their identity.  It doesn’t matter what the issue is…being transgender is no different. 

The transgender are a group bent on changing perceptions and destroying the gender binary.  The trans activists say some really stupid things.  The other day I saw one of the transgender poster girls write this:  “I’m a woman, I’m also a transwomen…it doesn’t define me, it’s just who I am.”  Can you believe that?  Really, can you?  Here we have a person of whom if their name were Googled would get a million hits.  This person’s only claim to fame is being a transgender.  She is in dire love with another transgender.  Yet when she spouts the party line, she qualifies herself as something other than just female, something less than female, denying that is what entirely defines herself.  You won’t find the transgender, or even some of the more maladjusted post ops saying they are simply female.  They are always a transgender female…a trans woman.  And, they wonder, among other thing, why they are looked at as men in dresses by everyone but others like them. 

The TeeGees just can’t seem to grasp that with few exceptions, the mainstream has certain ways that men and women act…certain interests are in common to the sexes.  These transgender females look like men, act like men, walk like men, eat like men, chat like men, behave like men, and curse like men…everything about them screams male.  Few make any effort to assimilate and then wonder why they are looked on, as a group, as if they were aliens from another world. 

Some of the post op transsexuals are no better than the transgender.  Here we have the land of the married men, fathers of children, who often thrust their loving wives into sexless relationships, often quite late in their wife’s life, by announcing one day they have all of a sudden realized they are transsexual.  What hogwash.  Transsexuals – real transsexuals – have always, always known they were transsexual. We have those TS who feel they are intersexed, somehow thinking that by using that definition to justify their fetish in the name of aberration, destroying the lives of their spouses in the process is somehow different.  Spontaneous sex changes, bee stings, intersex epiphanies and Lord knows what else are often thrown up as reasons for their somewhat instant changes.  It’s enough to make one sick…it does make me sick.  All I see is bunch of weird people who continue to live in a state of denial.  It would seem that for once in their lives they could at least be honest with those whose life they have affected in the most adverse of ways.  I’ve asked myself why I have spent the past couple of years on the same screen with these disturbed people.  I couldn’t find an answer and can no longer justify doing so. 

As absolutely pathetic as the transgender are, those long term post ops that even a middle school student could see still have issues with their sex change are just as bad.  This group always throws up the same old tire narrative…over…over…over…and over again.  One says her doctors told her she was the most perfect example of a transsexual they had ever seen…yeah, right.  My own physician told me the same thing, adding “It’s hard to imagine that Susan could have ever been seen as a male.” I know of at least two other post ops that were also told they were the epitome of female and were perfect examples of what transsexual was all about.  See the issue?  Not everyone can be the most “perfect” example…in essence, meaning no one is, including Suzan Cooke…just as there is no perfect example of a woman.  Considering the post op above had surgery in the 1970s, I doubt her doctor had seen many TS to even make a meaningful comparison.  Nonetheless, she throws out so-called undisputed qualifications as if someone gives a flying fly’s butt…and no one does, but the lemming followers who have the same self esteem and validation issues she does.  This same person says almost as often as she posts that she’s an anarchist, yet she advocates for governmental legislation…an oxymoron in itself; how absolutely pathetic is that when someone claims to be something they don’t even know the definition of.  Then there is a group of post ops who seem absolutely hell bent on legitimizing and/or justifying their very existence by claiming to be intersex, never stopping to think about the fact that most intersex are perfectly content with the sex they were assigned at birth…most intersex don’t even know they are intersexed.  Many endocrinologists don’t even consider chromosomal abnormalities, in and of itself, to even be intersex, yet justification of their transsexualism seems to be the all giving manna to them.  I find no joy having this group of misfits in my corner. 

Though I have met a fair share of post ops, very few of them are women to me.  Most have been in lesbian relationships with other post ops or transgender as their life partner.  They claim this is a choice; I see it as them being way less than convincing females who simply can’t function romantically with males in the mainstream…they have no choice but to be involved with other transgender for that’s the only romantic relationship they are capable of sustaining; both them and their partners are codependent.  Most seem obsessed with being transsexual and one way or the other it appears their day-to-day lives revolve in someway, one way or the other, with that fact.  They have other transsexuals/transgender that they refer to as their sisters…as if they have some all knowing common bond with others who are also transsexual/transgender.  I think that is simply sick, a blatant example of everything true transsexuals very much are not.  I only know and have any personal association whatsoever with two post ops, both of whom I met through happenchance.  Both of these two are friends of mine, not mutual members of some transsexual sisterhood.  Our friendship is based on two people with common interests of which being transsexual is not one.  In fact, the first time I read or hear another post op refer to other transsexuals as their sisters I know immediately I want nothing to do with the person for they are obsessed with their gender issues.  I have no more in common with a post op transsexual (much less a transgender) than I do with anyone else on the planet. 

I am convinced, however, that the majority of post op transsexuals are much like I am, heterosexual females who have their surgery and then go about our lives.  They don’t have any affinity to the GLBT or other post op transsexuals.  They don’t take part in the gender debate.  Their lives are very much that of the person next door.  They work and go about their business like everyone else in the neighborhood.  They don’t need to obsess.  They don’t need to justify or rationalize what they are or are not, or where they came from.  They don’t need to convince the transgender of anything being quite content to let the everyday person make their own observations and assessments.  Like me, they throw the entire transgender to the masses to seek whatever equilibrium may develop.  Their lives are safely tucked away in the past; if it resurfaces at all, they confront it and then put it back where it belongs…back in the past.  Just like me, they have no stake in the issue. 

The truth is…the real truth is…I just don’t give a damn about the gender debate…I’m not really sure why I ever entered it in the first place.  The fact is that I really never did.  The only place the gender debate takes part is on the internet and in that every now and then errant uproar that surfaces when some new legislation appears.  When I first attempted to transition back in 1969 I had one overriding objective and that was to be and function in the mainstream as any other female might…and that did not include the homosexual gayborhood.  I failed.  When I finally succeeded and had GRS that was still my objective.  I worked hard to meet that goal.  And, I achieved it many years ago.  If those who want to argue within the gender debate while at the same time claiming to have had a successful transition… defining that success as acceptance by the fringe GLBT, then more power too them.  They can continue to delude themselves if they like.  For me, integration into the entire mainstream has long since been achieved.  The transgender can be the small fish in the GLBT cage they construct around themselves all they want.  But, it’s still a cage.  A cage they can’t step out of and at the same time experience a real life.  By debating these strange creatures, they are elevated while my life is made less than by, if nothing else, assuming they are reasonable. 

The transgender and obsessed transsexuals do not make the rules, society and the mainstream does.  Most people want to live in the mainstream.  I do live in the mainstream.  Society has long since put its stamp of approval on my life.  I came to the gender debate on the internet just over two years ago.  All it has done was to make me feel dirty.  I’m sick of malcontented transvestites insulting me.  I’m sick of gay men I wouldn’t give the time of day to speaking for me, and at me, as if by them being homosexual they have something in common with my life…they don’t and never will.  I doubt I’ve ever seen a group of more disillusioned, obsessed, and maladjusted group than the transgender and some post op transsexuals.  Their critics are quite right when they say these people are confused.  Anyone who thinks a male can become pregnant and give birth…or that a female can have a cock and yet be just as female as the next woman is way more than just confused. 

My thoughts go out to the legitimate and younger pre op transsexuals.  They may do well to continue challenging the transgender.  Personally, I fear their future may depend on it.  Those of us who have successfully transitioned and have buried our old birth certificates in some impregnable state archive are home free.  But, I see a future more and more in which the transgender will be absolutely successful in destroying any legitimacy that true pre op transsexuals may hope to attain.  I feel the transgender of today would see a total victory in their quest if they could ruin any hope that true pre op transsexuals have at even a semblance of a stealth life.  The transgender have already succeeded in colonizing transsexuals in their goal of blurring gender and destroying the binary.  The only hope for those who are coming up the latter toward GRS is to lobby for national gender recognition legislation for post operative transsexuals.  Though it is the only hope for true transsexuals, I don’t see it happening; the transgender refuse to even entertain the idea…it’s no wonder, no one is ever going to recognize a male with a penis as a female, and the transgender wouldn’t get GRS if it were handed to them on a solid gold platter. 

But, as for me, once and for all, I’m out of the gender debate…I don’t have a stake in it. 

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.

IF…I had a nickel for every time I’ve been called a transphobe by the GLB and homosexual T I could afford a new Porsche.  I believe (as with the GLB) that the transgender should also lobby for whatever right it is that they desire, yet do not have as well.  Still, by saying that true transsexuals are different, I am automatically vilified.  By speaking up to the transgender juggernaut I am shoved into the transphobe column for little more than refusing to acquiesce to their politics.  Refusing to recognize a transvestite as a female is apparently not politically correct, even though it flies in the face of sheer common sense.  Objecting to the characterization of a female-to-male – who not only decides not to have GRS but also become pregnant – as a female is somehow taboo. 

Being called a transphobe is an insult.  Women of operative history are no more transphobic than the homosexuals are perverts. 

IF…I had a quarter for every time I’ve been called a hater I could afford both the vacation and the sports car.  Apparently I am expected, as a woman of operative history, to have something in common with both the GLB and homosexual T…just because.  Having nothing in common with the GLBT is de facto hate, at least as far as the GLBT are concerned when it comes to being a women of operative history.  Simply proclaiming such is GLBT heresy.  Having transitioned and had GRS, I have nothing but sympathy for the transvestites and transgender who are cat-called, laughed at, and ridiculed as men in dresses.  But, I also know that not only could many of these transgender do much better presentation wise, they also have to realize that men and women are different and, as a near universal culture, society does not accept parody well when it comes to sex/gender.  It’s the price one pays to stay in the game. 

Being called a transphobe for stating the obvious is also insulting. 

IF…I had a half dollar for all of the times the transgender themselves have relegated my own and other women of operative history’s sex/gender to that of a male, no matter what gender surgery we’ve had, I could ship the sports car to Peru and then tour South America.  The same GLB and homosexual transgender who insist on othering themselves by prefixing their womanhood with the trans prefix have absolutely no issues with attempting to do the same thing with me and others.  Trans activists have habitually made reference to post ops as having inverted penis’ and after market vaginas.  The reference they make to women of operative history having XY chromosomes is legion, said as much out of spite as jealousy because we have had surgery, and they not only haven’t, but many don’t even desire such, seeing GRS as immaterial and being quite happy to stay anatomically male…refusing to acknowledge that this alone is what makes us different from them. 

Being referred to as male by the transgender is demeaning and insulting.  The GLBT has no problem whatsoever insulting women of operative history who object to their appropriation and colonization of our identities and political position.

IF…I had a dollar for every time I’ve been called a bigot by the GLB and homosexual transgender, I could upgrade the Porsche to a Lamborghini, opt for Europe and the Mediterranean instead of Peru and then take in Australia on the way home.  It’s sad that the entire GLB and homosexual transgender feel so persecuted.  Though the GLB seems to have no difficulty speaking for me, I can’t speak for them, but from experience I can tell the transgender that no one really gives a damn about their gender issues.  If they can convincingly present as the gender of their choice and come across as legitimate, the world is their palette to paint with as they wish.  If they can’t do that, nothing else they do is going to matter.  People respond to people, they don’t respond to agendas…society will ignore legislation forcing them to accept something that is in conflict with their sensibilities.  The transgender do the same.  They do it with true transsexuals.  It is not bigotry to accept or reject another, it is human nature.  It’s how people interact with others.  I’ve met true transsexuals I wouldn’t give the time of day to…the same with GLBT types…not to mention every day run-of-the-mill people at work, or that I’ve met socially.  Me liking, accepting, or otherwise responding to other people has nothing to do with bigotry.  It has everything to do with first impressions and personality.  I suppose shouting bigot is easier to justify than the fact that some people are simply not liked by others. 

IF…the GLBT would publicly acknowledge that the majority of women of operative history are not homosexual, myself and others would become their allies…rather than their adversaries. 

IF…the transgender would publicly acknowledge that their umbrella does not include many women of operative history we would also be their allies…instead of their staunchest critics. 

IF…the homosexual movement would cease speaking for females of operative history as if they have some special insight into us, we would disappear from their blogs…many of us would become active supporters. 

IF…the transgender would immediately stop their persistent marginalizing and othering women of operative history by continuing to refer to us as transwomen and including us under their umbrella there would be no gender debate. 

IF…the GLBT would condemn actions that stereotypically present all women of operative history as nothing more than homosexual men who have gone to the extreme of gender reassignment surgery there would be peace within the gender debate.  Though some women of operative history are lesbian, the vast majority of us are not homosexual, nor are our partners homosexual. 

IF…only 

The GLBT ignore us.  We are included in the GLBT against our will as the GLBT speak for us while at the same time silencing our narratives and refusing to acknowledge our position that we female…just female…only female; nothing more nor less and we have no propensity to support the homosexual agenda or to be lesbian than the average female next door does. 

The GLBT commits the absolute same transgressions against women of operative history as they accuse the mainstream of doing to them. 

Many in the mainstream call the GLBT pedophiles; the GLBT call women of operative history haters…for refusing to take shelter under the transgender umbrella. 

Many in the mainstream refer to the GLBT as perverts; the GLBT refers to us as homophobes…for nothing more than objecting to their appropriation. 

Many in the mainstream think homosexuals are sick and confused people; the GLBT accuse of us abandoning our own kind because we don’t have anything in common with transvestites, crossdressers, and gender queers and refuse political association with them. 

Many in the mainstream ignore homosexual advocates when they ask for rights and a place in society; the GLBT silence and ignore the narratives and wishes of women of operative history all the while referring to us as transphobic when we object to their colonization of our identity. 

The GLBT is prolonging the inevitable by refusing to recognize the position of women of operative history.  What gains they may make on the national level are completely negated by the many, many states that have constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage…the GLBT Holy Grail. 

There will be no peace with the GLBT until they recognize that not everyone supports the GLBT and acknowledge that even fewer of us support the transgender.

Are you tired of the transgender and GLBT appropriating the identity of true/classic transsexuality. If you are, drop us a note and we will tell you how you can join our movement. Your e-mail address will be guarded as strictly confidential. Help us break free of the transgender. Pass the e-mail address on to others who feel as you do. Please join us…

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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.

At the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg at the end of World War II, Hermann Goering was quoted as saying: 

“Naturally the common people don’t want war…neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” 

Actually, this is not the only megalomaniac that ever said something to this effect. Both Julius Caesar and Napoleon are thought to have said similar things, but what it does show is that leaders have a vested interest in spreading fear. The leaders of the Transgender political wing are certainly not above spreading this sort of misinformation, nor are they averse to singling out groups that disagree with their agenda. 

Now, I’m not saying there is not discrimination going on nor that there is not a real and present danger that any particular person will not be the victim of violent crime, but what I am saying is that the fear of such violence has to be balanced and reasoned. All sorts of people get killed or beaten every day.  Women get raped or beaten senseless by their spouses.  All sorts of people are routinely discriminated against and harassed, targeted for unfair dismissal from their workplaces, hated by neighbors and others for no reason at all other than someone just doesn’t like them. 

But isn’t it time the transgender grew up? When are the transgender going to take some personal responsibility for their actions? Being yourself is not always easy to do, for anyone!  It’s like honesty. We are all told that honesty is the best policy but in point of fact being too honest can get you disliked really quickly. We all tell lies, or at least we all tell untruths simply because we have to. If we all told the truth all the time we wouldn’t have any friends.

Anything to do with sex in America is going to raise puritanical hackles. That’s a fact of living in this country. We all want sex and we all enjoy sex but nobody ever discusses it. When’s the last time you had a discussion about sex with your next door neighbor? For the most part, you don’t and it’s because discussing sex with one’s next door neighbor simply isn’t considered to be in good taste. If you are considering swapping your gender identity, or are in transition to have SRS, didn’t you at some point in time consider that the job might just be dangerous or invite discrimination and ridicule? If you didn’t, then you must be a complete moron. What on earth made you think that the world was just going to welcome its new son or daughter with open arms? 

So you go ahead anyway and you run into this brick wall and the first thing you do is start the blame game. Everyone is out to get you. It’s all someone else’s fault and so you think all those transgender activists are right, and need to lobby for laws, call in the Human Rights Commission and force the rest of the world to make accommodations for you. It never occurs to you that being yourself and being honest about who you are, can be a bit upsetting to others.  They tend to start thinking you’re a bit crazy or unbalanced. 

The activists tell you to be afraid…and so you are afraid. They tell you that you need to help them pass laws to protect you. They show you the Remembering our Dead wall and they instill fear. In return you give them your allegiance and you truly believe that they will be your salvation. 

THEY ARE WRONG. THEY ARE USING YOU FOR POLITICAL GAIN. 

They cannot deliver what they promise because no law has ever been able to force people to change their opinions. Only time does that, and it does it by quelling the fear that people have when presented with change. When you try to force something down someone else’s throat, they tend to gag on it. That’s what your seeing, the gag reflex in action. If someone sticks a gun in your face you are likely to become very reasonable toward the person holding it. It won’t make you like them any better, but it will make you more polite.  If you really want to change opinions and end discrimination and stop the hatred then you must not go frightening the population. Forced inclusion is not inclusion at all, it just makes you a gatecrasher at a party you were not invited too.  You might get in the door but you’re going to be the unwelcome guest that nobody speaks too. 

Those of us that you accuse of having passing rights and cis-privilege knew that from the get go. We worked within the system, we worked hard to fit in, we went about our business quietly and we tried very, very hard not blame everyone else for something that was, at it’s core, our issue and not theirs. Stop it with the blame game, and don’t believe every Hermann Goering that comes knocking at your door offering salvation. You’re just likely to get caught up in a never ending battle where you are the casualty that feeds their ever growing cause while fullfilling their prophecies.

Are you tired of the transgender and GLBT appropriating the identity of true/classic transsexuality.  If you are, drop us a note and we will tell you how you can join our movement.  Your e-mail address will be guarded as strictly confidential.  Help us break free of the transgender.  Pass the e-mail address on to others who feel as you do.  Please join us…

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