The Question
Given your current situation, what can you realistically do to help improve the way the society views this community?
Anisa Kimura
Society today seems to have kept historical gender roles without checking if those roles are an obstruction to making
our world a better place. When I go out, I strive to be the most
beautiful person I can be, something our society seems to limit those in male
roles from doing. As a transgender, when I go out I desire that
men and women find me physically attractive. If I'm read, I hope
they can see my internal beauty when I show them my acceptance of
their discovery. I wish to make the world reevaluate today's gender
roles.
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Brittany Rose
Because I'm open and comfortable about my crossdressing, I've become an
Ambassador in High Heels! By sharing my lifestyle with my friends and
family, not forcing it on them, I've helped them to accept who I am in pants
or pumps. Even my friendships with the drag queens I perform with has given
them a new perspective on the gender community. I'm making a difference in
the attitudes of the people around me, and it's a place to start. I'm having
a great time going out and performing, and I'm seeing attitudes change! What
more could a crossdresser ask for?
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Danielle Cox
I'm fairly open with my gender status, including going to Glamour Shots,
Estee Lauder, and transgender panels. As a male, I push the limits of
acceptability, with long french-manicured nails, long hair,
dangly earrings, shaped eyebrows and I primarily wear female clothing.
I pass well as a female, both in appearance and deportment. Therefore,
people who find out about me are not very shocked. This assists the
community because others accept my transgenderness as normal. As society
sees more of what I and others like me are doing, hopefully my transgender
sisters can express more of their femininity without fear.
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DeeDee Crossmore
I'm still coming out; and with my meager experience, I feel a "passive
activism" is my best contribution to improve society's impression.
Recently, I have grown comfortable enough to shop in any store, use
fitting rooms, and purchase things (whether in drag or drab), all with a
casual, pleasant demeanor. Often, when I feel a rapport with a sales
lady(ies), I will show her/them pictures of me, and I have always
received positive responses. In all such instances, I feel I made a
positive impression. Such passive activism helps show people that
transgendered people are pleasant, friendly folk.
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Jami Ward
I believe that as more of society in general sees us as just people, not as only transgendered people, the more their opinions of us will improve. So, what can I do to further this process? Since my current situation prevents me from being an outright TG activist, the only realistic thing that I can do to improve society's view of the transgendered is to continue to do what I already do. I can be "just people", an honest, self-confident, outgoing person, comfortable with myself. Then my being transgendered will be just another facet of who I am.
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Michelle Ross
Limitations, too many limitations...
But we gotta have fun!
And do our best in this
art with few spectators
that can really understand its language.
The basics are:
helping others we help ourselves,
there is no competition: art is art, and
the sur-face can only reflect what is inside.
Therefore, my recipe for improving the way society views this community is:
- Help others, don't be self-centered, be tolerant before demanding tolerance.
- View what you do as an art, you are the artist and the basic element.
- Appearances are deceiving, the goal is not external perfection, it
is fun and happiness reverberation.
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