Things to know to be a good transgendered ally!

[Rstank]

I am not sure how I would feel about that actually . . . the value of anything achieved through segregation is dubious at best. Maybe I would prefer increased dialogue in general? Not a hundred percent certain on this point mind you, I just have an uneasy premonition that the addition of a separate queer oriented forum might turn the rest of the site by default into a heteronormative wasteland (i.e. "I'm moving this topic into the queer forum").

Sort of smacks of banishment, to me. Not that I'm entirely against it; maybe it could be done properly... as I said, just something to think about.

A hearty "hear hear" to the rest of it though.

i was just thinking of a place more like where the issues could be brought up not necessarily segregated i agree it would be like...."and oh the 'gay' section"......i do want to open more discussion in general , this is a very good idea.....i thought maybe a group....since there is a "camp cunt" which i would think was to focus and try to hone in on what being a women is and what that means.....i figure maybe a group that people can discuss there gender and orientation and talk about there ideas and such......talk about and share there pains and pleasures be a tight nit group call each other for support and things like that....i think it would do well to open the lines for communication and have a safe place to talk be allies friends lovers whatever!

 

[Komjaunimas]

gays and transgender is something very very different different

For an "average joe" the first thought that pops into his head than he hears both terms is "Buttsex".

 

[yarn and glue]

For an "average joe" the first thought that pops into his head than he hears both terms is "Buttsex".

Let's not perpetuate ignorance.

 

[Bendixontherails]

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[connerR]

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Absolutely yes.

 

[Komjaunimas]

Absolutely yes.

i second that

 

[oldmanLee]

Might I suggest what I call the Southern Approch.In this method,the question of how someone feeds whatever appetietes/identities/ideologies is rather unimportant.Folks that are straight,folks that are gay(using the term for both men and women),folks that are bisexual,folks that are transgender,folks that are transvestite,folks that are whatever(excluding pedophiles,there's a warm place and a pineaple waiting for those creeps);IT DOSEN'T MATTER!What matters is what sort of embarassing stuff they get caught in for a round of juciy gossip!