stella41b -> RE: Men in Panties (2/22/2009 3:52:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Tavane Yes, I know they don't want to admit it's an erotic pleasure, mainly because they want to tell the gender clinics what is necessary to get what they want, and gender clinics aren't going to be too receptive to that, and had protocols which protect the clinic, which the TG person must meet, and wild sexual gratification is not one of them, especially when the surgery will destroy lots of that wild sexual pleasure. And the TG people all know what these protocals are, and they convince the clinics and themselves and each other that it's female brains/identities/whatever which is the real reason. Yet all of them have to be reassured that they will experience some erotic pleasure after the surgery. This is one of the major myths in society, and we have lots of them. People actuallly believe that if you shoot a gun at a person, it will knock that person backwards, since they see it in films constantly, and read about it in fiction, despite that they've all had high school physics, so know that is impossible. Obviously the shooter would be knocked back just as far, if not farther, under the laws of physics. We know that erotic pleasure can motivate people to do almost anything. I can't think of anything else which would possibly motivate a person to want to be a slave for the rest of his life. Nor can I think of anything which would possibly motivate a person to want to change gender. Nothing could possibly be responsible for such behaviors, ecxept erotic/emotional pleasure, and we all know it, and I've talked to many TS people as good friends, and when I asked them "Be honest. After an orgasm, do you have any interest whatsoever in being a female?" The answer was always, "No." I don't care about these myths. The only important thing is that people find happiness. However, they do make me laugh, and are generated by the social disapproval of sexual "deviations". I don't want to be a sexual deviate. I'd rather be a confused mixed up person with unexplained gender confusion. We can't do that with submission, since there is no such concept as submission confusion. We know it's purely erotic, and that's fine with us. It should be fine with TG people, but they don't like it, and I really don't care. I was different when I went to a gender clinic. I never had much use for myths, and told the psychologist that I didn't believe the desire was anything other than incredible erotic pleasure, and that it turned me on like a million watt light bulb to be feminine, and I wanted to try it. We'd argue about it, but her arguments weren't very logical. They had their protocols, and they made money, and made people happy, so it was in her interest to continue with them, which they had to do to protect themselves; but we both knew that all TS people know other TS people who convinced clinics to accept them, and so knew exactly what to say, so it was all a bunch of nonsense based upon self-interest and incredible desire. She didn't mind that it was a purely erotic thing for me, and I frankly think she believed it was for almost everyone, despite her contentions. I looked so much like a female that she clearly thought I'd have a better life as a female, and I'd be one of their star creations. She'd actually encourage me, if I started to get reluctant. It made me laugh. This crock of bullshit is just an example of the sort of closed-minded prejudices spread about about the transgendered which influences the way people think, making it much harder for them to gain social acceptance and to progress forward in their transition. I've spent over 10 years working in activist organizations within the LGBT community both here in the UK and in Poland, with a particular focus on the transgendered - everyone from the panty-wearer males to those going through gender reassignment - and wish to point out that this is one more example of the puerile, slanderous claptrap spread about by those who have failed to get through the gender reassignment program, but take it upon themselves to speak with the authority one has when they are seriously deluded to come out with half-baked theories and nonsensical notions about gender reassignment and the transgendered in general. Of course they don't have the problems, everybody else does and they're not the ones who are deluded, everybody else is. There is no evidence to back up his claims, not even one photograph on his profile to support his claim that he looks so feminine you cannot believe he's not a woman, but it's too late because he, and hundreds others like him, sit on message boards such as here on Collarme, where they have an audience of thousands of people who not only do not have the information but also do not know where to look to find such information, and they post, and this is where the damage is done. People read such postings and such garbage and they form their opinions and prejudices on such garbage, verified only by the fact that he was once on a gender reassignment program and dire voir accounts of conversations with psychologists and also second hand accounts of friends, and the damage is done. People log out of the computer and the effects of ill-formed opinions and half-truths go out to form yet even more prejudices and illusions out in wider society. And this is where I feel I must take a stand. I am on the gender reassignment program at London's Charing Cross Hospital under the care of Dr James Barrett, a recognised psychiatrist and gender specialist who can be googled, I am also working with St Mungo's, the NHS and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to run a focus group for the LGBT community and anyone who so wishes can contact me for information which I will supply to verify that this is the truth. I have witnessed many successful transitions and know dozens of transgendered females in the UK and Poland who have successfully completed the gender reassignment process, and am able to supply verifiable, logical, factual information to support all the claims that I make on these boards. I cannot speak for them, for each and every transgendered individual has their own story and their own experiences and nobody better can relate to you their experiences and feelings better than they themselves. However I will make it a point of standing up here and speaking up on behalf of these people and doing whatever I can to make any aspect of their transition easier. I am not here to win any arguments. There are no arguments to win, for gender is an intrinsic part of who we are as a person, it has nothing to do with whether we are submissive, dominant or whatever, it has got nothing to do with our sexual orientations, it has got nothing to do with fetish, kink, and that gender we are and or who we feel - and in many cases know - ourselves to be is beyond any sort of discussion. I have nothing against Tavane, nothing at all, I haven't had contact with him personally, this is not a vendetta and not to be seen as such by any means, but I feel it prudent to point out the misinformation, the illusions and half-truths purely and simply to promote understanding, knowledge, acceptance and to work against prejudice, discrimination and falsehoods. There are other websites which provide proper factual information about the transgendered for those who are seeking such information, sites such as Press For Change, a UK charity organization, in the United States there are organizations such as the GGA or Gulf Gender Alliance and the MS Rainbow Alliance with whom I collaborated briefly in 2007 which is an LGBT organization which also has infromation about those who are transgendered. The claim that TG people are doing this for sexual, kinky or erotic reasons is a preposterous one which isn't always necessarily true, and yet this remains one of the biggest issues of prejudice working against those for who are not motivated by such desires, but who are doing what they are doing simply to be themselves. Gender dysphoria, or gender dysmorphia as it is also described is a serious mental condition which manifests itself in a diverse number of ways, not always linked to sex, eroticism or kink, and is something which requires painstaking attention and a lot of understanding based on the characteristics and nature of each individual case. And it is the sweeping statements and blanket generalizations such as quoted above which can do the most damage.
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