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- From: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly Martin)
- Subject: Re: Tough questions.
- In-Reply-To: Michelle Fiera's message of Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:46:36 GMT
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- Organization: Gender Anarchists United
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:19:45 GMT
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- Michelle Fiera <ap.6443@cupid.sai.com> writes:
-
- >Right, I mean my genitals do provide me with pleasure now, but
- >they're not in sync with my general being. It's a lot like owning a
- >Yugo, while yes it does drive - it's not the kind of car I want to
- >drive. :)
-
- Too bad you can't go to a used car dealer and trade them in on a new
- model... :)
-
- >Hmm... I see a vicious cycle coming on. People who want the surgery
- >lie to their councilors so they can get the surgery done, which in
- >turn reinforces these councilors stereotypes of a "typical" TS.
-
- It's not so much that I would lie but that I would craft my answers
- and statements to be convincing. The problem I have is that my case
- is atypical (adult onset) and in order to fit the mold (of childhood
- onset) I would have to fabricate stuff. I won't do that, and it might
- cause me problems.
-
- Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to get a counselor who will listen to
- me and not try to tell me I'm not because I don't meet her ideas of
- what a TS is supposed to be....
- --
- Intolerance is not a lion. It's a weasel.
- -- Dean Kaflowitz (decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com), talk.abortion
-