What would you change?
No, I don't mean your figure, or dress size, facial features or the color of your hair or wig. I don't mean your genitals, or the size of your breasts or forms. I don't mean how much closet space you have or how you told or didn't tell your spouse. And I don't mean anything about this forum or it's members.
I mean, given the hypothetical ability to alter society, at least in its relation to the TG community, with all of its varying members, what would you change?
I know some will see this as a silly and vacuous question.
But I am not sure it is.
Recent threads (such as the one on the term “tranny) have dealt with topics that seem very simple and yet produced remarkably different opinions. As a community we include a wide variety of individuals, with a wide variety of goals. As members of that community our actions, words and example in public will have some impact ranging from almost invisible to vastly important. But without knowing where we want change to occur, and what we want it to look like, it is hard to understand, or so I would think, exactly which public actions are beneficial and which are not. To give an example, I have met some “passable” TG who are loathe to appear in public with others who are not passable. I have heard from some who are very concerned with blending while others are not at all. Heck, even the topic of age appropriate dress creates dissension.
I am thinking of the struggle other minorities have engaged in in recent years...the battles for civil rights and the struggle for acceptance of gays. In both cases there were different camps pressing the agenda in different ways. In the civil rights struggle of the sixties there were the non violent followers of Dr. King, but there were also the more aggressive and sometimes militant participants. In the gay community there were and still are some who remained quite comfortably closeted while others pressed an “in your face” activism.
I would think it obvious that to know how best to conduct oneself in public requires some thought out strategy involving knowledge of what one is hoping to achieve. Is it simply acceptance as a woman within a binary world? Is it an improved tolerance for, and understanding of CDs? Is it broad acceptance for non binary individuals within an otherwise binary world? Are you looking to simply get along and remain hidden? Are you seeking to integrate into the binary model as it is? Or is it something else entirely? Are you even interested in pressing an active approach toward change at all, and if so change toward what kind of world? Does the community writ large concern you at all, or are you simply looking to make a safe future for yourself?
It is actually a pretty big question, or rather, several connected questions.
So what would you change?