A story on the GS news feed caught my eye this morning so I had to take a look. It was at a site called "The Canadian" a new socially progressive and cross-cultural national newspaper. The story "Headline News Male-To-Female Transgendered People confront labelling and identity issues" was just a standard description of TGs.
http://lecanadian.com/201[...]issues/

But that is not what I am commenting on. Here you have a progressive site with a positive article about TGs and what happens to be located between the title and the body of the article? Three links, the first one to TGirls Online Dating, and the next two to Free Live Cams - Transsexual Women 1&2 with "(Adults only)" after it.

What can I say.

Hugs,
Marsha

You aren't surprised are you? Come on Marsha!! We are hypersexualized, especially by the media and by lots of horny guys. I'm sure they think that we spend hours and hours every day with our heels pointed toward heaven. I'm having sex with two people as I write this.

*sigh*

Too sad to even keep up a tongue-in-cheek jag.

*facepalm*

Z

Yes Marsha, welcome to the world of having a particular search engine have sponsorship upon that particular article without limits being set, it hunts for what is considered by the engine to be acceptable links due to what is displayed within the article....

Soooo unfortunatly the links have nothing to do with the article

No I am not surprised and yes I know how the advertising search engines work. It is just frustrating to see that kind of nonsense, period. I think the gals who participate in that stuff are fricken whores who deserve whatever @#$% comes there way. They are just as bad as the Jerry Springers of the world. I don't want to hear any of this poor tranny can't get a job doing anything else because of society so they need to do this crap to survive. They are the problem in the first place by helping to feed the perverted stereotypes that exist. No wonder so many TSs try to go stealth to avoid being associated with that ^&*@!
Hugs,
Marsha

Hugs Anna, please don't ever take our differences personal. I will always consider you a friend. And actually the Pride thing is one of the few things we really differ over. But these gals that basically sell themselves are a sad affair. First off they are only going to be "desirable" for a short period of time until the next gal comes along, so they are hurting everyone including themselves. These gals are many steps below the gals that participate in Pride. For that matter, Pride gals are angels compared to those who sell themselves.
Hugs,
Marsha

Marsha,
Unfortunately, we live in a "super sized world". - if you don't add something "extra" to everything... then nobody will pay attention to it..
Fortunately, most of us Canadian Girls take that kind of "junk" sensationalism with a grain of salt.

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"and my needs entwined, like ribbons of light...and I came through the doorway, some where... in the night"

To a great extent you are right Karen, but it ends up being a catch 22 where in the end we all get hurt by the negative stereotyping. Another potential issue is the stalkers that some TGals end up facing, so the question there is how does that start. Maybe a video or phone call, so safe really only means safer and we probably can never be completely safe. What you describe is about the only positive thing that comes of it if you really want to call that positive.

Again I just find it frustrating that you can take something good like the Canadian article and totally negate the positive with ads for porn. How can we be taken seriously with stuff like that going on. Yes, we can ignore it, but we are the choir, the question is can society ignore it?

Hugs,
Marsha

When a girl rushes to announce to the world that she is TS, it exponentially increases chance for failure, which usually leads to desperate measures like porn and sex for survival...99.9% of our circle of acquaintances are not ready for the flood of info and the shock...like any journey, success is best predicated by careful planning...(new topic perhaps-"What is the best path to successful transitioning???"-See Springer at 9am! LOL)

I tried saying that once Traci and you should have seen the girls here attack me. Plan, OMG, another 4-letter word. So many have been "denied" God only knows what and doing anything yesterday just is not soon enough. And give me a break, how can you plan for your job letting you go and your wife telling you to get out when that stuff happened weeks or months ago. And OMG, Jerry Springer is booked up with tramps, oops I mean trannies for the next several years so they can't even get an appearance fee. I mean come on Traci, be sympathetic or something.

I do want to note some gals have gone to great lengths to plan and because of this difficult economy have found themselves in tough circumstances right now. So I don't want anyone to think I am talking about every gal who finds herself in tough shape right now. I was specifically referring to the gals that approach transition as a race. As much as I have spoken negatively about the UK healthcare system, there is a positive side in that they have set steps that need to be followed. Transition is a lot more than taking hormones and changing your name.

Hugs,
Marsha

Marsha, i know we've had our differences in the past, but i for one reckon you're 100% right on this. I'm amazed how girls can even consider this [email protected] must need their heads read!




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Anna-Marie

Hi Marsha and Anna-Marie,

While some girls who do this sort of thing are indeed "whores" but I suspect there's more to this than meets the eye.

There are girls who need to make ends meet and think they have no other alternative. Some may have dependents who they feel responsible for while trying to transition. If you read the posts here you can find stories of girls who have done things they would have rejected if they felt they had a choice.

Let's those of us who have better alternatives not judge those who feel they don't.

On the other hand, the pimps and sh*theads who profit from their vulnerability deserve Dante's worst level of Hell...

Best,
Melody

I've seen a few things on TV about TS's that gave up or lost everything when they came out. Selling sex only as a last resort to put a roof over thier heads & food on the table. Prancing around in front of a camera so that some pervs can look is a lot safer than walking the street.