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MissNormaDesmond
07/25/09

In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
It appears that many transgender women, prior to coming to terms with their gender identity, pursue hypermasculine careers, such as the military, as Ms. Ramsey did, in an attempt to "make men" of themselves. When I think about the level of emotional pain that's got to entail, it makes my heart hurt. I'm happy for her.
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NickelMD
07/25/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Its called the 'flight into hypermasculinity' and in fact its not just that they joined the military. Often transgender women would volunteer for the jobs with the highest mortality. This was in part an attempt to 'become a real man' and in part parasuicidal (untreated transgender people have about 20-30% suicidality. It falls to 1-4% after treatment.). One transwoman who was a tunnel rat in Viet Nam said she volunteered for that job because she knew that either she would come out of it as a 'real man' or she wouldn't come out at all. (Tunnel rats were soldiers who would go in search and destroy missions in the tunnel complexes the Viet Cong created. They were the 'smallest guys with the biggest cojones'.)

regulus2.azstarnet.com/pdf/pdfs/447.pdf
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
07/25/09

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bitch, mary, please. I've been padding my facebook friend's list with trannies, and my straight coworkers are LOVING it - I'm MAKING them love it, or they know I'll BEAT THEM DOWN. tranny is the new black, I'm callin it.
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Glib and Bitchy
07/25/09

In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
The way I read the fifth- and fourth-to-last paragraphs, with the reference to genital reassignment surgery, she did indeed go for "the whole magilla."
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MissyMiss
07/25/09

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Good for her. Late to get into the right body, but better late than never.
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aLostLady
07/25/09

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You go, ma'am!
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cdmunch
05/16/09

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It's strange and impressive thing that Thailand is so accepting of transgendered people. There has been a lot of talk lately in the US press about children with gender identity issues, but really nothing about accepting them when they get older. And even with gay rights evolving, they're on the periphery. Most times they're cast as clownish-- outrageous drag queens for mass entertainment. I think it's pretty sad. There were times when transgendered people had a more of a nuanced role in society- in pre-Cook Hawaii for instance, they were part of the religious order. Not that's we'd want to go back to that, but somehow the US is stuck on fitting people into one category- gay or straight, white or black, male or female, etc., etc.
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htotheomo
05/16/09

@cdmunch: Well-said and well- referenced.
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Proofer3
05/16/09

@cdmunch: Transsexuals are considered a third gender everywhere in the Asia-Pacific region - except of course the USA. (We even had a Mayor/MP for a dozen years in NZ). Viva las Fafafine!
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
05/16/09

@Proofer3: i've read that ... and that in other cultures transgendered people are something of a caste of tricksters, empaths, etc., and accepted as part of the natural order
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unclevanya
05/16/09

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Shouldn't the title of this post be "Miss Thing Looks Like That Thing"?
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jgh
05/16/09

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They are beautiful.
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lacieca01
05/16/09

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Those are some very mature looking 12 year-olds.
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OMG! Ponies!
05/16/09

@lacieca01: They're not old. They're world-weary.
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unclevanya
05/16/09

@lacieca01: Took me a second as well.

As C.J. Cregg would say, "I'm on dangling modifier patrol."
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OMG! Ponies!
05/16/09

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I think it's great Thai are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage involving a businessman and a 12 year-old ladyboy. And you know what in my country, in my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a sexually-repressed Chinese national polit and a ladyboy who until two years ago was living in a village with a water supply contaminated by mercury.

No offense to anybody there, but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be, between the extremely rich powerbrokers and a ladyboy forced into prostitution by circumstances. And if Angelina Jolie factors into it somehow, well that's just gravy."
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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
05/16/09

@OMG! Ponies!:

I just laughed soooo hard! If only the maids weren't vacuuming away and understood english. Somehow this ties to you post but my headache is squeezing my neurons!
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