Sara,
Please Google transgender vs transsexual and you'll see what the movement to separate is doing.
The reasoning why we have to separate is not so much because of the rest of the transgender umbrella but how the general public views the TS/IS community when it is forced to be included under the transgender umbrella.
Part timer's, cross dressers, gender queer's, fetish dresser's all have an impact on how legislative powers view the full time TS/IS community when it comes to introducing protective bills and ultimately passing those bills into law.
The shared experience of someone who is full time is only with others that are full time.
If you think for one moment that a full time person would not distance themselves from the transgender grouping in order to have laws passed for protection I say your misguided and have been deluded.
You may call me what you wish but the fact remains that full time TS/IS people have to constantly battle perceptions created by the transgender umbrella.
If it came to throwing the transgender umbrella under the bus in order to survive don't you think for one moment that the full time TS/IS community wouldn't do it.
My statement to the umbrella is; Leave us alone!!! Stop associating with us concerning legal matters of survival.
Your so called support does nothing more than legally dilute what the full time person is doing in order to make their lives more livable.
What part of "nothing in common" doesn't the transgender umbrella understand?!?!??!?!?
Julia
