trans | Jun. 18th, 2004

I don't go about announcing my sex. Do you? For obvious reasons, it's impractical and unwise to go about announcing that you're transsexual. No one passes all the time, but I've been fairly lucky in that most people see me and think not only "girl" but "tall, pretty girl." Online, it's much safer to hang my out my shingle and let it be known. After all, what's the worst they could do? So I always put it on things like my profileor in my userinfo or somewhere in the text... something about TG/TS. I know it's a cop-out because people really don't read these days. They see the pic and stop there. I usually ask people how they found me to discover whether they're tranny-chasers or just some schmo who didn't notice. If I'm enjoying the conversation, I point them back to my profile to notice. The usual sequence then is I'm viewed as a chance to ask 20 questions, a villain for pointing it out, an apologist for GID, or an opportunity to try something exotic. No thanks. But occasionally... *just* occasionaly, I'll actually go through the arguments. Especially if we've chatted a bit and they consider themselves consistent and rational.

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