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S onewall announces "It Gets Better... Today"  [message #64594] Sat, 30 October 2010 10:24 Go to next message
timmy

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Yes, I know there is a T in S onewall, but there is a T in LGBT as well, and they ignore it.

In the UK S onewall has announced a follow on to Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project. I quarrel with S onewall over many things, but this initiative I support.

Please see http://tinyurl.com/2d47r79



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icon14.gif Re: S onewall announces "It Gets Better... Today"  [message #64597 is a reply to message #64594] Sat, 30 October 2010 12:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
chrisjames147 is currently offline  chrisjames147

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Well done, Timmy...well said.

As you point out the T is missing. I have spent forty years acknowledging my gay self, and still to this day I don't understand the T, but I know it is out there.

I would not wish to be transgendered myself, but I support the right of others to make that choice even if I don't understand it. I have never felt even slightly feminine in my male self, and my identity is comfortable. I cannot imagine the need to change my body (sad though it may be), to anything else but a man.

How difficult the struggle must be for many men to identify as gay and women to be lesbian, the concept of people considering themselves transgender is beyond difficult. Especially for those who feel trapped in the wrong body and seek to alter the physical.

Not only do the Christofacists rant about such "immoral behavior," the public at large cannot grasp the need for such a change. I can see why the LBG community supports the Transgendered persons in our midst, this is all about personal freedom. If they are not included we all lose.



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Re: S onewall announces "It Gets Better... Today"  [message #64600 is a reply to message #64597] Sat, 30 October 2010 13:06 Go to previous message
timmy

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There has been a limited study of the brains of dead Trans folk, with their consent and wishes to help advance our knowledge. I can't cite the study, but I'm sure it can be found. I am remembering a TV documentary which reported that, with M2F Trans folk,, the brain was distinctly female even though the body was distinctly male.

I am going to use that study to pick you up on one important word, one I'm sure you didn't intend, but had no other at the time: 'Choice'.

There is a choice to submit to surgery or not, but there appears to be no choice in whether the brain perceives you as male or female, whatever the body shows you. I wonder which is right, body or brain? But that discussion is better in the new thread that I started precisely because of the balance of your reply: http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/view.php?site=forumiomfatsorg&bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1288442820



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