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[thisisalltrue.livejournal.com]

hi everyone

i just joined this community. my so or my genderfree friend, is transitioning, or thinking about transitioning, hasn't really started but will start soon. we were talking about it and i began to wonder about choosing a gender in the first place. why is it that transpeople choose a gender or choose to keep up the binary? and how would they be able to continue to question the gender binary when they have decided to be either man or woman? from reading about this community, i realized the infinite amount of identities that people can identify with, what im interested in i guess is how and why would a transgendered person choose to be either a man or woman? to support the definitions/stereotypes of man and woman?

any response would be great...i don't know if that came out the way that i wanted, these are questions i had floating around in my head.

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[kriona.livejournal.com]

We have an intro to LGBT course offered at my college (UW-Madison, Wisconsin), and according to the syllabus so far, we only spend one day out of the entire semester talking about transsexuallism, and nothing else about any other form of transgenderism. Is this a trend among college courses? Is transsexualism covered more in different courses, perhaps?

We watched a clip of Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes" giving the perspective that LGBT courses shouldn't be taught at colleges. *frown*

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[pippy84.livejournal.com]

A few of us have started a new community for those who identify in some way or another as gender varient (trans/genderqueer/gender fucking/etc) and dyke (or otherwise queer), and their partners, past, present and future. It's called transdyke. If you fit that description you might want to check it out. We're trying to build it as a forum for discussion of issues that intersect the gender variant and dyke communities and are trying to attract people from different backgrounds who identify somewhere along the lines of those terms.

crossposted to transgender, dyke_androgyny

Why the hell not.

[stormswords.livejournal.com]

So this may sound stupid.

But I have to know.

Alot of transwomen expressed their desire to be pregnant, to reproduce. To have everything that comes with being a woman.

Well, you know? I feel the same way. This is probably bordering on absurd, but I don't just want a penis, I want testes, and a prostate, and I want to be able to ejaculate.

So I was thinking.

Why can't we switch. Why can't I find Jane MTF with my bloodtype, a doctor willing to perform the ultimate transgender surgery, and swap us parts. I get your glands and penis, you get my vagina, ovaries, and uterus. Satisfy two needs, and boom.

I've thought about this long and hard. So much so that I'm quite willing to register on Matching Donors for my chance at male parts not comprised of the insides of my left forearm.

I'd be ready tomorrow.

So what's stopping us.

Uh Oh........(x-posted to various places)

[deeper-than-red.livejournal.com]

I'm filling in an application form for a really good looking job, but there's a snag. They want references for the last 3 years of my employment history. That's okay but how do I let them know that the person they have to ask about had a different name to the person they're interviewing? I can't put a slip of paper in with the form as it's an online application. There is an "additional Info" bit on it that I could use to let them know, but I'm going to have to disclose my function (so to speak) just to get a job. What should I do? maybe I could ask them not to contact the references until after the interview and then I can let them know what the deal is if they interview me?

Gah, what should I do????