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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen You can question whatever Edwyn, but the possibilities I listed are real. Equally, the fact is that few people announcing transition have any idea about how their friends and families, employers and so on will react. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes as in my case it goes reasonably well, sometimes its an absolute disaster. Whilst one would always hope that personal and social disaster will not be the case, one should always plan for that to happen, thus expect it. I certainly never questioned whether these possibilities were, well... possible. Of course I'm aware that there are the kind of horrible people out there that would do as much harm as they could to anyone different from them. But still, to say that one should EXPECT these hateful acts is kinda extreme, but still not nearly as extreme as saying that one should EXPECT to lose family and friends over it. I'm sorry that this is the view you seem to have of the majority of people out there. There are a few bad apples. Many of them, actually. But there are many more accepting, loving people that wouldn't just drop someone because of something like this. Don't be so extreme. There are a lot of gender variant people who's families will no longer talk to them, they have routinely been denied accomedations (including myself), they have lost jobs in places where the law does not protect them from such discrimination. This can include cross dressers. There have been cases in the US where an employer finds out that an employee cross dresses in his spare time and he has been fired for it. What Lady E says may seem extreme but it isn't neccessarily. Yes there are good people, and god bless them for being so open minded and respectful, but there are a lot more sad stories of CD's and other gender variants who have had their lives turned upside down because of the hateful disrespect of others. The global trans community even has a website dedicated to our dead. Primarily for those who died because of hate crimes against us. It's called Remembering Our Dead. It also inspired the Trans day of rememberance which is meant to be the day that we remember all trans people who have died as a result of society treating us harsly for being who we are. The list includes drag queens, CD's, TG, and TS. No one who expresses some kind of cross gender identity is spared.
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