Transsexuality: Love em or Leave em the fuck alone

[TotallyOz]

Trannies. TVs. Drag Queens. Divas. Ladyboys. They are all men that gender bend and can look and act like ladies, but not all are the same.

Straight culture often lumps all of these fine femmes together, - often calling us “chicks with dicks” but the truth is they could not be more different if they tried.

Drag Queens, for example are generally well aware that they are really men deep down. Sure, they have a feminine side, but many will still want you to suck their cocks.

True transsexuals are a different thing entirely. Sometimes called “trannies”, transsexuals honestly believe that deep down inside that they are women. The fact that they have a cock is simply an inconvenience.

That said, they should never be confused with hermaphrodites – who have both cocks and pussies. Unless she’s had an operation a transsexual only has two holes for her boyfriends to play with.

Transsexuals have been around since the dawn of time. Yet, they have almost always been shunned. The entire practice of trying to live your life as a member of another gender has almost always been considered taboo. Most western cultures, in fact, have had many religious or legal edicts against transsexuals acting out their most primal desires.

Even in popular culture transsexuals are often demonized. Consider the movies Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs – both of which feature transsexuals as women hating psychopathic killers.

The thing is that transsexuals desperately need to live out their lives as women. Men who feel like girls inside have a very high rate of depression and suicide when they force themselves to act like one of the guys.

It is important to understand that being a transsexual is not simply a sexual fetish. Yes, many transsexuals want to do the nasty with cute boys. But, more importantly they want to live out the social roles of women in society. They want to be perceived by the world in general as women.

Think about it, most women don’t spend the majority of their time having sex. Neither do transsexuals. They simply want to relate the way women do – which as our fag hags will be more than happy to tell us is very different than the way men relate to the world.

What’s fascinating in American culture is how many “straight” men seem to be attracted to or even fetishize transsexual girls. Consider how both Eddie Murphy and Hugh Grant have been busted with trannie prostitutes.

Some, but far from all, transsexuals decide eventually to have their cock and balls removed and have an artificial pussy installed. This is a very expensive and complex procedure and is clearly not right for every transsexual girl out there.

Before you can become eligible for the operation a transsexual must live life as a woman 24 hours a day, seven days a week for at least a year. Then they must undergo rigorous psychiatric tests, to determine how female they really are deep down inside.

Only if the trannie is able to live full time as a woman and is able to pass all of the tests is she allowed to go under the knife. While many members of the transsexual community have complained that the screening process is too difficult, it does seem to be effective.

In surveys of post operative transsexuals, only about one percent regret the procedure – which is more than most of us can say about our one night stands!

Still, this does mean that the majority of transsexuals never get the operation. Some don’t have it done because they can’t afford it. Others are denied the knife by the medical community.

Those that don’t get the operation often take female hormones instead. This causes them to grow breasts and makes it impossible for them to get an erection – not that they want a hard on in the first place!

Transsexuals have an interesting relationship to the gay community. More often than not they are included in the community. Yet, a man who feels like he is a woman inside will identify himself as heterosexual when he is having sex with another man. (S)he does not consider himself gay.

A better term – and one accepted in the transgendered community – is that both gays and transsexuals are “queer” – meaning that they are separate and far more fun than vanilla breeders.

One of the more obvious differences between a transsexual and a drag queen is the way they dress. A drag queen is often dresses to provoke and shock or make fun of outlandish female clothing.

Transsexuals, on the other hand, because they want to feel like a real woman, often wear more conservative female attire in order to fit in as well as possible with the female community.

Transsexuals are much more common than many people may think. Some medical communities, for example, estimate that at least one in 10,000 people born male feel deep down inside that they are really a babe.

The good news is that in the past few decades’ transsexuals have become more and more accepted in society.

Most western nations now allow transsexuals to be considered women under the eyes of the law after they have had their sexual reassignment surgery. In fact, in some European countries, the government will even help pay for your sex change operation!

Madam Ovary aka TotallyOz

cc 2007 Drag.com

[seaboy4hire]

A lot of times "gender benders" can be a hoot when going out on the town! My best friend does drag down in Vegas and it is always entertaining watching him perform and work the crowd. I give trannys, drag queens and the others a lot of credit and respect to be who they are and not keep it in the closet.

Hugs,

Greg

[TotallyOz]

I always had the best time with my drag friends in NYC. They kept the fun in the evening all night long.

[AdamSmith]

>I always had the best time with my drag friends in NYC. They

>kept the fun in the evening all night long.

Granted drag and TVTS are not synonymous. Nonetheless... Given the paucity of twinks in Boston that I'm forever bemoaning, the local trannie escorts can be a godsend for those of us who cotton that way.

Economics pushes them to live in the roughest goddamned neighborhoods, though. One day I am going to get beaten up, coming or going. But until then... again -- What, me worry?

[Lucky]

AN LA Times sports writer in the news today:

Sports Columnist: 'I Am a Transsexual'

Thursday, April 26, 2007

(04-26) 13:43 PDT Los Angeles (AP) --

A veteran sports writer for the Los Angeles Times said in his column Thursday that he is a transsexual.

Mike Penner told readers of his struggle to embrace his gender, and said when he returns from vacation in a few weeks he will be known as Christine Daniels. He did not say whether he was having surgery or why he's changing his last name.

"I am a transsexual sports writer," Penner wrote. "It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words."

The 49-year-old Penner said his brain has been "wired female" and he's tried to fight off the urge to change sexes. He called writing a story about his sexuality the "most frightening of all the towering mountains of fear I somehow had to confront and struggle to scale."

"How do you go about sharing your most important truth, one you spent a lifetime trying to keep deeply buried, to a world that has grown familiar and comfortable with your facade?" Penner asked.

Penner, who is married to another Los Angeles Times writer, said he started coming out about two months ago by telling his boss, his barber and a soccer teammate, and that he now feels happier and healthier.

"Mike Penner has been an exemplary contributor to the Los Angeles Times sports pages for over two decades and today's column is no exception," Randy Harvey, the newspaper's sports editor, said in a statement. "The decision to go public cannot have been an easy one and, while we do not make a habit of commenting on the personal and private lives of our journalists, we do look forward to continuing our relationship into the future."

John Amaechi, the first NBA player to publicly come out of the closet as being gay, said he read Penner's column Thursday after returning from a speaking engagement in Berkeley at the University of California.

"It's incredibly bold and far more courageous than anything I could have done," said Amaechi, who spent five seasons in the NBA. "I commend him."

Penner has spent more than 20 years at the Los Angeles Times and has covered the Olympics, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and has served as the Times' sports media critic.

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[TotallyOz]

>"It's incredibly bold and far more courageous than

>anything I could have done," said Amaechi, who spent five

>seasons in the NBA. "I commend him."

I agree. Very courageous. It is acts like these that lead the way for others to be so open and visible.