Within the past several months, I have witnessed a lot of dissension and disrespect on this forum regarding how we express our gifted gender identity. For some folks, that simply means appearing as a man wearing a skirt and high-heels, while for others it means going all the way and appearing completely feminine and attempting to pass.
We need to remember that we are all different from society's cisgendered standard and therefore we should be respectful of one-another. Just in the past few weeks, I have seen several posts stating that folks that don't go "all the way" with feminine presentation are detrimental to the transgender community.
We have so much dissension in our own ranks, how can we ever expect to make progress? Folks come to this forum to escape the bigotry and prejudice of society only to find a different form of bigotry and prejudice. As Rodney King once stated "Why Can't We All Just Get Along"? Why can't we be respectful of all forms of gender presentation including the MtF that goes all the way to pass, and the man that just wants to weak skirts, pantyhose, and high-heels as a man? Why do some of us feel so strongly that there is only one form of alternative gender expression that we must impose that ideal on other members of this forum?
Since we all have a different form of gender expression that is not the societal norm, we need to band together and respectfully celebrate our similarities rather than highlighting our differences.
Jamie