Originally Posted by
lizbendalin
I've been away from the computer most of the day. First with my therapist, and then representing the T on a LGBT panel speaking to a university class of future teachers on diversity in the classroom.
I realize that I may need to clarify things just a bit. Almost all crossdressers, and transsexuals fully embrace the binary gender world. We either were born within one and move to the other, or from time to time present ourselves as well as we can as the other side of the gender spectrum. Most people would speak of crossdressers as being gender fluid, able to present as either end of the gender spectrum. I'm wanting to get some feedback on those in the middle area.
What about a person with breasts and a fully-functioning penis? What about a person born female, who binds and presents as male but still goes by a female name? What about a person who declares them self male, yet wears heels and makeup, but nothing else that would classify as feminine as part of their normal attire? Those are the people who I'm running into more and more within the younger transgender community. How do we "old folks" (and I use that term with my tongue firmly in my cheek) feel about those who throw out the binary expression of gender, and create their own middle ground?