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- From: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: My Story...
- Message-ID: <C0E2EB.22M@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 16:13:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.123542.13491@fuug.fi>
- Reply-To: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
- Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK.
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- an2881@anon.penet.fi (Shannon) writes:
-
- > Since I've been reading this, believe it or not, I've felt a sense of
- > "belonging", and that what I love to do (CD) isn't "that odd" at all.
-
- Well that's one of the reasons people form groups. It allows people
- with really odd hobbies (eg train spotting) to think what they do is
- okay. Perhaps a another term for it is peer pressure, and this can
- have its bad sides as well eg crime, racism etc
-
- > I mean, think about how relatively few people are net users and how
- > many of us have reached each other through this newsgroup - I think
- > it's great!
- There might be many thousands of people on the net.
-
- > The only "down" to the whole thing is some of our reactions that I've
- > seen when an "outsider" feels the need to call us sick or weird. Please
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > don't encourage them, they are ignorant to what we feel, and would
- > never understand - just ignore it and it will go away. It really will.
-
- Before you criticise those who criticise you think about CD'ing. Don't
- you think there is something odd about wanting strongly to wear certain
- clothes purely because you associate them with the opposite sex.
-
- > Anyway, there's absolutely no way I could "pass"! Like "Joanie", who
- > I mentioned before, I'm 6 feet tall, 185 pounds, very hairy, with the
- > ironic thinning hairline. I'm 99% heterosexual with 1% wondering what
- > it would be like to be interested in, and make love to a penis. I never
- > saw why some women in their 30's (I'm 34) don't care to "perform"
- > fellatio. If a girl had one (yes I know - they "sorta" do) I'd be all
- > over it. Other than that, no "homosexual urgings" at all. The
- > "outsiders" just don't believe that we're *NOT* all gay do they?
-
- If you read some psychology books you might find that most transvestites
- are male, and heterosexual and most are married.
-
- > the most part ) being male, but like everyone on this newsgroup, I wish
- > there was a switch where I could become female from time to time. A sex
- > change has never entered my mind for a second, but I honestly commend
- > those of you who had the courage to do it. It does take courage and a
- > lot of it - our part of the world (USA) still has incredibly ignorant
- > people who condemn "non-conformists" as we are, as being sick, when we
- > are just being honest with our feelings.
-
- > Transgendered... I don't know. Transvestite... I'm not attractive
- > enough to be. Crossdresser... CERTAINLY! I absolutely adore the great
-
- Your expressions of desiring to be female temporarily suggest that you
- are maybe a borderline transsexual, not just a transvestite.
-
- > feelings, the security, the peacefulness, the sexuality, and the
- > comfort of wearing snug fitting lingerie and high heels. Oh, I guess I
- > should mention that around the same timeframe, I discovered bondage,
- > and that's a different story, but I believe that my combination of love
- > for lingerie and bondage stemmed from some "Detective Magazine" covers
- > that a friend of my father had lent him around my "formative years". If
- > you've ever seen them in magazine racks, they almost always featured a
- > tied-up woman on the cover in a very sexy pose. They were supposed to
- > depict a woman being attacked but I ignored the violence aspect.
- > Violence towards anyone is sub-human - this generation should be way
-
- No it is not, violence is a very human activity, unfortunately.
-