September 10, 2009 3:31 PM BST
Ladies--
Nice to know I'm not the only one who values a different viewpoint! I thought it might just be me.
I am also a reasonably successful conservative TS; I don't embrace the bar scene and partner swapping lifestyle. (I am an awful flirt, but that's part of who I am in life. A girl might as well have
some fun.) I do embrace the fact we all have opinions, and that we have much to gain from each other.
I still feel we need to distance ourselves from the LGB movement...as a TS, I feel that many of us simply want to blend in, not stand out. We want to live as women, not necessarily as sex-toys. (Though sex isn't a bad thing, either.
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I'm no victim. I've worked hard to get where I am today, and that work has (finally) started to pay off. I didn't get here by playing victim, nor did I get here by bemoaning the tired old "I'm a women trapped in a man's body" routine. (I tell people who ask that I'm a woman with spare parts. More positive that way.)
In fact, I think as a TS we not only need to think more about how others see us (Heck, I'd settle for more of us just thinking!), but in how we see ourselves. We aren't a "what", we are a "who."
I realize my opinion may not sit well. That's okay...it's my opinion, and I respect your opinion as well.
Dialogue with me, ladies.
Luv 'n hugs,
Mina
September 10, 2009 6:41 PM BST
I couldn't agree more about distancing ourselves from the LGB crowd, not that I have anything against them but their issues are different to ours and we don't belong packaged with them. Is it because we are transgendered that we MUST be lesbian, gay or bisexual as well? It makes as much sense as calling it the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Redheads group!! Utter nonsense.
Nikki