Girls! Show your contempt for religion -Have butt sex!

[Violet]

I don't really know if I want to belong to this particular social group anymore. Too many drama queens, too many wannabe social activists who are determined to do everything they can to be as out of touch with society as they can, too much anger and hostility, too many cliques and just not really what I want at this point in my life.

When you see such bullshit as 'Black Transman Conference', don't you just have to wonder why the hell we are so fucking split? I'd think we've had few enough allies as it is in the past (the gays, lesbians, and bisexuals were evil to us in the early-middle days of their modern movement) and we aren't yet smothered in civil rights either.

What do? SEGREGATE EACH OTHER. Yeah! That's the spirit!

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I dunno. I'm starting to have my own theories about the trans community. When people go in, they're emotionally hurt because of all the garbage we have to put up with. They stick around, get the support and services and resources they need and that's when things change. Now they generally aren't psychologically troubled anymore and can move on with their lives. They have their own other issues and priorities and generally stuff to do and they move on to those things. The people who don't move around are the people who are still so troubled or horribly unpassible that they can't move on and, as a result, a lot of the trans community has some very psychologically troubled people. But, that's just personal observation; it varies from person to person and there are still a lot of really cool people there. That being said, I probably would have moved on entirely if not for the fact that my boyfriend needs his own support since he's really early on.

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I think for some that might be correct... but there's certainly plenty like me who just want to be there for new people. I didn't need the giant circlejerk of trans forums myself (they seemed always too happy, to never give enough criticism, to never debate anything... this forum has fucking spoiled me), since I dealt with this bullshit mostly by myself...

But I'll be damned if I didn't need at least a few of my fellows in my life, some of them I owe a great deal, even. If I can be like that for some young girl/guy/zer/GQ someday... then someone else will get the same relief I did Being told I could DIY, and shown an example of where, and that it was legal... Game-changing.

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Trans operations are cheaper here (I spend some of the year in Thailand and I'm there right now)

I've heard some horror stories from transpeople who've gone to Thailand ("There are more ladyboys than there are fish there."* )... I'm not going to risk it, but to each their own.

Mostly terrified that they'd give me excellent care pre-surgery, then push me out afterwards without so much as a dilator to my name. Then to watch as my urethra closes up and I have to take a visit to yet another doctor just to fix problems with the first time.

*Straight friend of mine.