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RE: The Transgender Thread - 11/23/2011 7:39:23 AM

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Buckaroo Bonzai had it right - "No matter where you go, there you are..." And so I agree with you Missygwen on your point transitioning is not the cure-all that perhaps some trans-folk believe it to be. Waking up with a vagina or a penis certainly will change things...it is a destination...sort of a declaration of "I have done all I can do physically to right this wrong." But it won't pay your rent, nor fix your coffee maker, nor suddenly make you put the cap back on the toothpaste.

For me, your analogy of seeing "pretty young thangs" is sort of like comparing your house to someone else's...they may have more rooms, bigger windows, huge...tracks-a-land...

...and your house just doesn't seem to compare...

But at least you have a "house"...

A transgender person is looking at an auto garage thinking....now how did this get here, and how am I going to make this into a house?

Okay, not the best analogy, but you get the idea. There is a baseline sense of "wrongness" that I have always felt and have heard same from many other trans-folk. But yea, most of us don't get to be beauty queens either and as I said earlier...or in another thread..ain't life just a bitch?!

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RE: The Transgender Thread - 11/23/2011 9:02:31 AM

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(because Otters started it...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOM-2zzHAzs

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RE: The Transgender Thread - 11/23/2011 1:27:06 PM

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Missy-

To give you an idea of the ironies of life, with not being happy about the way one looks...Uma Thurman is a woman many women would absolutely love to look like, men drool over her, etc..and she has body dismorphic disorder (I don't know the details, just from what was reported in the paper a while ago), where she basically is literally uncomfortable with the way she looks.......

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RE: The Transgender Thread - 11/23/2011 7:04:17 PM

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Hey Peach and Peon...
For the longest time, I was truly convinced that I must have been a big, huge horrible mean misogynist homophobic straight biker in my previous life, and that I must have been such a bad person, that the universe sentenced me to come back as a short queer boy-chick who was too short to get a Harley... in order to punish...and enlighten me. My Buddhist friend told me that she believed a lesson in life was repeated until it was learned, and that perhaps if I could get the life lessons, that next time I would come back as my true form.

I kinda hope so. This time around on the karma wheel was chock full of some rough life lessons.

Yeah, sometimes I feel like waving a white flag and saying, "Ok, I get it already!"

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