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- From: wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us
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- Subject: Re: Self Appreciation (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.163629.1172@mr.med.ge.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:36:29 GMT
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- Janice Kendall (kendall@adobe.com) wrote:
- > In article <1992Nov16.185735.25510@mr.med.ge.com> wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us writes:
- > >Rich Payne (payner@netcom.com) wrote:
- > >> Since you made a public anouncement, I hope you won't mind my asking why?
- > >> (The sex change that is)
- > >>
- > >
- > >Why???? Because I am a woman. I just happened to get stuck inside of a man's
- > >body. While I have surpressed these emotions for many years, and tried to
- > >act as a man, I've always known I was female. The internal conflict is almost
- > >too much to bear. I doubt that you would understand. Most people don't, although
- > >more women seem to then men.
- > >
- > >>
- > >> Rich
- > >>
- > >
- > >Wendy
- >
- > Think about what we all experience as real differences between men and women.
- > Men and women think, act, react, dream, ... differently.
- >
- > Now, each one of you that strongly identifies with being male or female - take
- > your current personality and picture it inside the body of the opposite sex.
- > It would be damned awkward, confusing, at times humiliating as you would
- > behave in a manner different from the "norm". Wouldn't you want to get
- > back to a body you're comfortable in?
- >
- > I don't know about the statistics, but I've not yet heard of somebody
- > changing their sex twice!
- >
- > Nature/God tries out endless "variations on a theme" all the time. I don't
- > know why people feel so threatened that someone is born gay or that someone
- > feels like a woman trapped inside the body of a man. Since our society
- > has trouble accepting men who act like women, I think it's fine to use
- > the technology we have to allow someone to be consistent in their nature and
- > their appearance.
- >
- > Take care, Wendy.
- >
- > Janice Kendall kendall@adobe.com ...!{decwrl|sun}!adobe!kendall
- >
- > Don't Panic! Clinton will be our *42*nd President.
-
- Janice,
-
- Thank you so much for this wonderful post. It says what I feel very well.
-
- The pain of being transexual is almost to much to bear. Many Transexual
- people kill themselves over the internal conflict. We are branded as crazy
- by many who have no idea of how we feel. I have never thought or dreamed
- like my male friends. I have had to force myself (with great difficulty) to
- act and react like a male. My therapist says the hardest part will be to
- drop the male shell I have hidden myself in (so that I could survive as a
- male).
-
- Thanks again, Janice. Your compasion is most appreciated.
-
- Wendy
-