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[girl-inside22.livejournal.com]

I'm in a relationship with a cisgendered woman. We're both lesbians and we're deeply in love. While her parents are completely support of our relationship, some of her other relatives have been questioning why she would be with a MTF. Some are questioning her sexual orientation as well(she's completely out to her family). At first this wasn't too bothersome, but now she is being pressured to find a 'more suitable partner'(words of her aunt). I know she wouldn't leave me for anyone...well I certainly hope she wouldn't. She's tried telling them to mine their own business, but they are determined to continue on with this. I don't know if I should stay out of this completely....or I should try to educate them on the subject of transsexuality in hopes of opening their mind a bit. For those who've gone through a similar situation...what did you do? For those who haven't...what would you do in this situation?

AOL transphobic

[alesclandre.livejournal.com]

Apparently, AOL seems to find police harassment of transsexuals very funny:

http://entertainment.aol.co.uk/article.adp?id=20060808130409990012

They invite their subscribers to find funny captions to a picture of a transsexual being thrown out of the ladies' loos in the UK.

Note also their use of the pronoun 'he' while at the same time acknowledging this is a transsexual.

whew, I can relax. :) and so can the rest of you :)

[gesundyke]

Homeland Security Advisory System
Current Threat Level

August 11, 2006 – The United States Government has raised the nation’s threat level for the aviation sector to:

* Code Red or Severe for flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States
* Code Orange or High for all commercial aviation operating in or destined for the United States.
* The rest of the country remains at Code Yellow.

Currently, there is no indication of plotting within the United States. We believe the arrests of extremists engaged in a substantial plot to destroy multiple passenger aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted.

Consistent with these higher threat levels, the Transportation Security Administration is implementing changes to airport screening procedures to include:

* No liquids or gels of any kind will be permitted in carry-on baggage. Items must be in checked baggage.
Exception: baby formula, breast milk, or juice if a baby or small child is traveling; prescription medicine, insulin and essential other non-prescription medicines.

The body image thing: Why it's bad for us

[marionmashni.livejournal.com]

Everyone has heard of the complaining about how the body image thing affects adolescent girls out there. Whenever this topic comes out, images of anorexic dieting, teasing and bullying, cosmetic surgery before 20 etc. come to mind. But unfortunately, nobody has asked the fundamental question yet - why is it wrong?

From my vantage point of 'being different from most of the rest of society; in the body image department, I can suggest one reason: it doesn't respect that bodies are different and they can be all beautiful. It's not just that they are treating the bodies like meat - the more disturbing thing is that bodies are compared to an ideal form and given a 'score' on how close it resembles that ideal form. But who gets to decide that what the ideal form is? That fact that it varies between times and cultures suggest that nobody can actually do this. Thus nobody has the right to say a certain kind of body is beautiful and others are not. We should be well aware of this and should avoid to have our beauty sensors tuned to be in unison with this stifling standard in the face of this. If everyone can do this, we would all see more beauty, and be more beautiful and be much more happier.

This 'standard beauty' thing has a very bad impact on our community too. The standard girl is quite different from most T-girls, and this fact can really get us down if we get bought by the myth of 'standard beauty'. T-girls are not considering if they are actually more beautiful or unique in what they've got and are too ready to give that up to look like the standard girl.

After all, who wants a 'standard beauty'? That's too boring. Give me a truly beautiful unique beauty!

Love and cheers,
Marion Mashni.

(no subject)

[charron.livejournal.com]

So, apparently, my dad doesn't want me to have money because I spend some of it on girl stuff. Both of my parents see what I wish to do as mutating and/or destroying my body. They both refuse to accept me. My mom is forcing me to take the girl's clothes and accessories I've purchased over the last few years and hide them all in a box in the attic. They both consider my transsexuality nothing more than a fetish to be practiced in my bedroom.


Fuck this family.