Quote Originally Posted by Julogden View Post
I am totally at a loss to see your logic here. Both are support organizations for transgendered people. How can they possibly NOT be part of the same community?

Are you saying that American TG people and UK TG people are different communities? I'd say that we are all part of the same global community, the differences in culture are rather minor, IMO.
It has nothing to do with being transgender.Being transgender is no more a definer of community than say having blue eyes is. For me the cultural differences are so huge that I feel no more connection with American trans people than I do with a starving child in Africa.

Quote Originally Posted by Julogden View Post
I didn't say that I was sure that it was the Beaumont Society that Virginia Prince had ties with. I just vaguely remember that back in the 1970's, she visited Great Britain and had forged some sort of relationship with a leader of a large support group there, and guessed that the Beaumont Society may have been the organization as it's a large, successful organization with a rather long history. It wasn't a formal association, rather it was a casual affiliation, sort of sisters-under-the-skin sort of thing. It may very well have been a different group.
It would have had to have been the Beaumont. But a holiday visit to a now long dead leader hardly constitutes an affiliation. If fact, given the overtly homophobic nature of Tri-Ess that they currently display on their web site:

An international social and support group for heterosexual crossdressers, their partners, the spouses of married crossdressers and their families.
I doubt that anyone from this side of the Atlantic would want anything to do with them. Certainly any group in the UK which advertised itself as such would be breaking the law. If you want an example of how fundamentally different UK and US society are then that's a very good example.