Quote Originally Posted by kathrynjanos View Post
I totally see your point, but the note about drag queens is a fair one. The ones I've MET (that is, ran into in person and in some cases spoke to, however briefly) seem... off. That is, they didn't seem entirely normal. Whereas we would be perfectly normal people in or out of dress (even if we may alter our voices and mannerisms depending).
Watch who your calling normal! It can be a terrible insult. I'm proud not to be 'normal' as normal has wife-beaters and pedophiles amongst it because thats the best place to hide when you have something sick and evil to hide! But amongst the weird are the kindest nicest gentlest and best people I've ever met! People unafraid to be honestly different. So I'd rather be amongst the weird then the normal, because almost the rot corruption, hypocracy and evil is amonsgt the normal.

My prime example is this one that I see fairly regularly on the Metro North train I take home from NYC in the evenings. A very large black masculine drag queen (platform heels, black fishnets, SHORT hot pink skirt, black tight see through shirt, and BLEACH BLONDE WIG) frequently rides the train in the evening, and looks about as crazy you can get.
Good. Eccentric people are usually safer than the predators who hide in sheeps clothing of 'normal'. And liberty means liberty, not a slight choice of conformity A or conformity B.

I've seen more outrageous clothes than you describe on GG goths in my own town! Including a friend of mine!

I have no doubt that this particular example is actually out of his/her/its mind. But it's just one of several. Others have been a little bit distant and almost "not there." I wouldn't discount drugs being involved, though, which would certainly account for some of the behavior.
Well drug-use is often one way people try to cope with things like the trauma of oppression and repression and the family abandonment that many especially older TG people have gad to face when coming out.

And there is lots of mental health issues many face too. Only through more acceptance can we get rid of these problems of drugs and mental helath problems amongst our community.

So consider universal acceptance of free expression. And maybe those people will be able to be happy and ok in the future!