After reading Danielle's rant, she brought up an interesting point. A lot of people here put GG's on a pedestal. I have read a lot of things along the lines of
1. A TS or CD can never be as pretty as or prettier than a GG.
2. A TS or CD can never be as feminine or more feminine than a GG.
3. A TS or CD can never be as sensitive or more sensitive than a GG.
4. A thread was once started by a GG asking why are CDers often prettier than GG's. Someone, a CDer, replied by saying that if that thread had been started by a CDer instead, everyone would have stomped on him.
When I read some of these kind of statements, I find them to be very transphobic.
So my questions for everyone.
1. Why do we put GG's on a pedestal here?
2. How do you think that TSes who suffer with serious gender issues might feel when you tell them that they can never be as pretty as a GG, or can never be as feminine or sensitive as a GG? Like being TS we go through enough being discriminated against by society and suffering for decades with being in the wrong body, and being told to "man up"? Society tells us enough that we're second class to GG's. Do we in the trans community really need to perpetuate this idea that TSes are inferior to GG's?
3. Who gives anyone the authority to declare one group of people superior to another?
