LP:Originally Posted by LeaP
I'm not sure what your objection is, so I would ask you to explain.
However, I don't see this as creating semantic confusion when what I said was intended to be a distilled version of some common terms. Also, there is a major difference between what I would say to someone outside the community and what you might say to the same person. I was speaking in generalities with the purpose of providing information. You would be speaking about your personal experiences. The conversations would be significantly different.
I also steered away from explaining the details of what one would do, that would be observable or demonstratable, to crossdress or to transition. That would be the 2nd or 3rd level of the conversation. The text that I wrote would be the 1st pass. As a community we seem to have difficulty in defining concepts that should be pretty straightforward.
As it relates to your 2nd paragraph, what precedes your telling someone that you are transitioning? It would seem that the conversation should start with the concepts of gender identity and gender dysphoria in order to provide context for the information that you are transitioning. If conversations start with "I'm transitioning" people would have no foundation for receiving your information.
A parallel would be the discussions that took place about same-sex marriage. Starting with "For true equality, everyone should be allowed to marry." doesn't get you very far because there is not basis for understanding the statement. But, if the conversation were started by saying "Under federal law, there are 1138 rights and privileges that depend upon marital status.". Then, you explain what a few of those are, how they are beneficial to opposite-sex couples and then how they negatively impact same-sex couples. That becomes the basis for understanding why same-sex marriage was such an important issue. We should be using the same methodology within our community.
DeeAnn
