August 31, 2009 10:01 PM BST
Ladies--
I can deal with "Tranny." Don't care much for it, but I can live with it. (Being TS, it's partially true anyway.)
Drag Queen? Mmmmm, not so much. I live this, and I'm not into the Tammy Faye makeup and diaphanous gown scene. Besides...makes it sound like I race. (No snide comments about
being a fast woman, or you'll stay after class and clean the erasers.)
Really wanna frost me? Try "Transvestite" or worse, "She-Male." The negative connotations get me really torqued, really fast. So just don't go there.
Finally--A (gay) gent I am friends with once referred to me as b*tchboi. I gently took his face in my hands, kissed him lightly but firmly on the lips, and told him if he EVER said that to me again I would slap his buns into the middle of next week .
To date, he hasn't. It's been about five and a half years, now....
Luv 'n hugs,
Mina
August 31, 2009 12:36 AM BST
Sorry we are not allowed to talk about labels.
It causes some anger to rise.