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"The personal is the political. Even if some people born with transsexualism or transgenderism can hide it and stay in the closet at great emotional cost and in doing so amass a lot of male privilege there is very little in this world to compare with coming out trans for hitting the down button on the mobility elevator." -- Suzan, 2009-07-09
[Yes, I realize this quote by itself glosses over the existence of trans men. Since the particular essay it was taken from is specifically about women, this omission makes sense in context.]
Hi From Suzan @ womenborntranssexual.com
I'm also political and do feature occasional posts about Health Care Reforms and other issues.
The brothers I know are very articulate and can speak to their own specific issues far better than I can and I feel very privileged to be friends with them.
Suzan
Re: Hi From Suzan @ womenborntranssexual.com
The intent of my footnote (which may, in hindsight, have been a bit too concise) was to point out that you had omitted mention of trans men only because you were writing about women in that particular essay, as opposed to having forgotten that trans men exist, to head off any, "She forgot about trans men!" complaints. If my footnote made it look worse instead of better, then I apologize and I hope this exchange of comments clears things up for everyone else.
Let me see whether I can improve the wording of my final sentence a bit to make it clearer.
Re: Hi From Suzan @ womenborntranssexual.com
Re: Hi From Suzan @ womenborntranssexual.com
BTW I also use MBT and one of the initial factors in coming up with WBT came from a guy I knew who describe himself as transsexual to male.
I was very flattered by being invited to the Forward Motion Conference in Burbank some ten years back. The diversity of different people touched by trans prefixed words is why I say communities instead community.