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- From: hackbod@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Dianne Hackborn)
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: Tough questions.
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:04:06 GMT
- Organization: Buried on the floor somewhere.
- Lines: 44
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- References: <1992Nov16.032006.20240@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov18.003027.246 <1992Nov18.164016.20976@news.ysu.edu>
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- ah340@yfn.ysu.edu (Michelle Fiera) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, hackbod@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Dianne Hackborn) says:
- >
- >>a friend who said that she wasn't planning on going to our school
- >>reunion... but if I went she would definately go...
- >
- >I dream of going to my HS reunion as a woman, and seeing the looks on
- >everyones faces. Hopefully by then it will be possible :)
-
- I don't know if I particularily want to go to shock a bunch of people;
- what I really want is for these people that I knew in High School to
- actually know who I am. On the other hand, I would love to take my SO
- with me and startle people that way... Dykedom was very under-
- represented at that school. :)
-
- >>and my only male friend [Matt] from High School, who at one point told
- >>me he thought this was "kind of neat" and that he was looking forward
- >>to it.
- >
- >Who tend to take it better males or females? Do the women take it
- >better becaue they already understand what it is to feel like a woman?
-
- As I said, Matt is really the only guy that I am close to... and I
- don't really think it makes sense to distinguish males as more/less
- accepting than females - it depends much more on the individual
- person.
-
- However... Pretty much all of the SOs/husbands of my friends don't
- seem to have much of a problem with it. But I don't really know any
- of them very well, so it's hard to say if that means anything.
-
- And as for women understanding what it is like to be a woman...
- Well... it doesn't really seem to matter; they just don't understand
- why I feel the need to do this. Most people take gender for granted,
- and have a hard time understanding me because of that rather than any
- idea of what a man or woman "feels like."
-
-
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