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Traci Elizabeth
10-31-2011, 02:26 PM
For all you who ask what you are, take this umbrella with you!


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh17/grandpotter/transgenderumbrella.gif
Jorja
10-31-2011, 03:04 PM
You found it!!!! I wondered what happen to that darn umbrella.
Traci Elizabeth
10-31-2011, 03:30 PM
I am sure many of you are going to think...


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh17/grandpotter/AwJeezNotthisShitAgain.jpg
Zenith
10-31-2011, 03:54 PM
Where is simply "woman" or "man"? :confused: That is what many of us identify as...and we try to live our lives as such...
Bree-asaurus
10-31-2011, 04:18 PM
Where is simply "woman" or "man"? :confused: That is what many of us identify as...and we try to live our lives as such...

My understanding is that women and men exist inside and outside the transgender umbrella. But if you are a women and your body doesn't match, or you are a man and you're body doesn't match, you are transexual and fit under that part of the umbrella.

Being a man or woman, and being transexual isn't mutually exclusive.

I am a woman. I am also transexual. As I transition more and more, I can further ignore the transexual part and better be able to live as the woman that I am.

Does that make sense?
Kathryn Martin
10-31-2011, 04:31 PM
I am sure many of you are going to think...


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh17/grandpotter/AwJeezNotthisShitAgain.jpg

Uhhhm so much to say so little motivation to say it, perhaps?
Kaz
10-31-2011, 04:39 PM
I have never understood the need for definitive labelling... I am who I am and I just want to be able to be that person... techincally I do not fit any of the labels in the umbrella... but I could force fit myself into one, but then is this me or just someone else's description of who they think I should be?
Bree-asaurus
10-31-2011, 04:58 PM
I have never understood the need for definitive labelling... I am who I am and I just want to be able to be that person... techincally I do not fit any of the labels in the umbrella... but I could force fit myself into one, but then is this me or just someone else's description of who they think I should be?

It's pretty simple. Do you fit the stereotypical male/female binary gender roles? Yes? You are not transgender. No? Then you are transgender.

If you are transgender, you MIGHT be a transexual and/or intersexed and/or a crossdresser, etc. Or you may not be any of those... in which case you are just plain-ol' transgender.

The terminology is evolving to help embrace the fact that everyone can't be pigeonholed into specific categories. At least that's the way I see it... but I could be wrong :P

Also, as society keeps evolving and accepting people that don't fit into one of two categories, we'll find that more and more people don't actually fit the stereotypical gender roles, that gender is actually quite fluid. Then the labels won't really matter anymore.
Zenith
10-31-2011, 05:04 PM
Ah but I do fit the gender binary male/female roles. That's how I live my life. Not as trans anything. I didn't go through so much hell and pain for anything less. My point is maybe I'm under the umbrella because of my past, but now I'm a woman.
Bree-asaurus
10-31-2011, 05:10 PM
Ah but I do fit the gender binary male/female roles. That's how I live my life. Not as trans anything. I didn't go through so much hell and pain for anything less. My point is maybe I'm under the umbrella because of my past, but now I'm a woman.

Well if you don't consider yourself transexual anymore, then you're just a women and don't fit under the umbrella. In that case, what are you doing here? :P Just kidding :D

You and I just have different definitions of what being transexual is. I'm definitely not arguing with your definition of transexual... you've been through more than I have, so maybe my definition will change as well and maybe one day I'll feel like I'm no longer transexual. Right now, I just feel like I can't ignore the fact that I was born in a male body, therefore I will always be transexual.
Starling
10-31-2011, 05:12 PM
As you all don't fit under the umbrella, binaries better wear raincoats.

:heehee: Lallie
Zenith
10-31-2011, 05:24 PM
What am I doing here? Good question. Still have lots of dear friends here, and feel I have things to contribute. When you look in the mirror and see a perfect vagina between your legs day in and day out...it changes you. I may heaven willing, have a shot at living more of my life as female than male. You change and grow.
Rianna Humble
10-31-2011, 07:33 PM
Well if you don't consider yourself transexual anymore, then you're just a women and don't fit under the umbrella. In that case, what are you doing here?

The question that philosophers and sundry religionistas have been trying to answer since time immemorial is "what am I doing here?"

I missed the bit that said that women were not allowed to participate in this forum, could you give me a link to that part of the FAQ, please?
Bree-asaurus
10-31-2011, 08:23 PM
The question that philosophers and sundry religionistas have been trying to answer since time immemorial is "what am I doing here?"

I missed the bit that said that women were not allowed to participate in this forum, could you give me a link to that part of the FAQ, please?

You took me too entirely too seriously. Did you forget to read the "JUST KIDDING" part right after that? You did take the time to cut it out of the quote... maybe you're looking for a fight?
Traci Elizabeth
10-31-2011, 09:40 PM
Gee girls... I posted this to be light-hearten.