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MsLeslieBabydoll -> RE: Should Male Transvestites Be Allowed To Disguise Their Birth Sex? (9/28/2009 11:19:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark
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ORIGINAL: MsLeslieBabydoll
Yes, I hope to get some sort of demographic assessment out of this series of polls so that I can then try to work from the data, and attempt to learn if other websites are doing things better, or worse, than the way things are done here. Although it is never possible to get an exact determination of a demographic's sentiment from a simple opinion poll, the information will be handy in determining the steps I take down the road.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but if I am correct, I believe that Collar Me is meant to serve the BDSM community as a whole, and not just a single subsection. But, I could be wrong about that too; it would not surprise me if I were right, or incorrect, about that area of service that Collar Me targets.
CM on the whole has a list of orientations that are simply basic. It's not just an issue for transgendered or CD but across the board. If you are a bottom, you get no choice. If you are a pet - no choice. If you are a masochist you get no choice. If you are a CD, you get no choice. - OTHER than what is there. It's not resting only on a single subsection of a subsection.
I think that it would be better to see CM more as a starting point, rather than a be and end of all. It is up to us (generic) to be responsible for ourselves and be open to communication and ask the relevant questions that we require answers to instead of relying on a site to do it all for us.
I cannot respond to your poll because I know from experience that it all depends on individuals involved and that 'should' is a word that I feel is unhelpful from a generalistic standpoint.
I would say that I personally believe that you are suffering from people coming down on the poll because of a recent influx on CM of negative or confusing posts about transgendered life and it does 'feel' like the transgendered community is being beaten by a 2x4 at the moment.
the.dark.
Wow, so many are defensive today. I am very accustomed to people slamming me for doing research, I've only been doing it for about 25 years now. Generally the people taking potshots will find a different issue tomorrow to bitch about. That poll question was VERY SPECIFIC. It addressed a VERY SMALL percentage of the general population. I think that we could both agree that there are far more people, as a demographic, who are black, or white, or hispanic, or that are asian, than are transvestites (TV) and crossdressers (CD). The percentage of people within the transgender community that self-identify as transgender, when they are specifically a transvestite (or crossdresser, which is the slang term for transvestite) medically, has risen dramatically in the last ten years. Much of this has come from the advent of same-sex marriage, and a generally greater overall acceptance of transgendered people all across the United States. Having dealt with issues relating to transgenderism since I was in college (I graduated in 1982), I think that even just 26 years is probably enough to establish that I probably know a bit more about TG people, and the TG community, than the average Jack or Jill.
I have no way of knowing if you or any other person here is a crossdresser or transvestite, because I have not seen that addressed that in many of the comments today concerning the poll. Knowing whether or not the person making a negative post was a male transsexual would probably go a great distance in determining the specific social bias of the respondents. I have noticed the sniping though, and if you don't want to give an opinion through the poll, that is your prerogative. It is a voluntary thing, and no one pointed a gun at your head and forced you to open this thread. Crossdressers and transvestites are the solid majority in the transgendered community. More than half of the crossdressers and transvestites in the TG community, according to a study done by interns at the University of Chicago, a few years ago, referred to themselves as "transgendered"; which was up by more than 20% from the result obtained in a similar study, just ten years prior to that particular study.
The way that I phrased the question was specifically targeted at discussing a practice being used by male transvestites, or CDs, as many crossdressers categorize themselves. This is important, because I CHOSE not to use the term transgender at all, as that also includes transsexuals. For clarity, in today's medical community, transgendered persons are either transvestites or transsexuals. Physicians as a whole, have not yet identified any other demographic, that is of such a number, that their definition would require revision. This way, the reader of the question could know, with absolute certainty, that the question was asked in order to get a sense of whether or not the general membership at Collar Me, was okay with the current practice, that many CDs have adopted here at Collar Me, of disguising their birth sex. A crossdresser might be a CD today, and a transsexual next year; but that is speculation; for we don't know if they will accept their sex differently next year.
So, in asking whether or not it is now a socially accepted practice for a male crossdresser to disguise their birth sex, the only question being asked is whether or not a specific sub-class of transgendered persons (that sub-class being crossdresers), in not representing one's actual birth sex, is something that the general membership of Collar Me, who answers the poll, is something that it is okay with, or something that is not okay with, which then might necessitate addressing the matter from the site owner's perspective; which may or may not be an additional consideration for those good folks.
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