First off thank you for your honesty and your underestimation.
It is interesting that you as a member of a group that is usually charged with have an "agenda" would level such a charge into your own community. If the six or seven of us that I directly know about are worthy of being a "contingent" with an agenda let me formally declare what it is. Agenda of the Contingent. I checked this against the Homosexual Agenda and the Transsexual agenda with the one member of each group I have had the privilege to meet in person and based on the single person check my agenda is identical to theirs.
I would provide a link to the Manifesto but it's just as easy to reproduce here:
- Read Agenda
- Apply To ALL
Against the wishes of the "Passing Brigade" and "Defenders of the Cause" I also have chosen not to hide and be alone or go out only in the darkness. The hair I wear when I go out in a skirt or dress is the same hair that I will wear to work Monday morning in dress pants and button front shirt. It's authentic me all the way and of the utmost importance to me to have it that way. Since retiring from the military I have worked on growing it out and finding a style that works with both sides of the closet, keeps my wife happy and doesn't make my employer too upset with me.
The fact that I do not have a need to develop an alternate persona and name, wear padding, wigs, forms and makeup while I pretend to be something I know to my core I'm not does not in any way shape or form imply a lack of effort on my part to look well or be presentable. If the cost of that is a low fabulosity rating and the revocation of any invitation to attend your gatherings, galas and affairs I will see my Skag-Drag (From the Divas Las Vegas faq) self to the virtual door and continue entering the actual real establishments where I live that seem happy enough to be at least civil while they accept my money.
In addition to the things I don't need above what I won't do is tell someone who does need or want those things that they are wrong for it. While I prefer to be clean shaven before I go out no matter what side of the closet I've chosen from I will not have the audacity to tell a bearded man in his dress that he should have to shave or stay home over my preferences. If providing support for someone's post who appears to feel at least similarly to me adds me to a "vocal contingent" then if you have made it this far my voice in your head should be wall to wall stereo and borderline earth shattering with all the effect of a 64' organ pipe stop that you feel in your core more than hear.