This thread is all over the place. I thought we were talking about defining what is and is not TG.

DeeAnn, there's a difference between employee affinity groups where the focus is business pathways, which are secondary to a person's private life (and indeed everyone goes home at the end of the day to enjoy their highly individual private lives), and transitioned TSs who see themselves as women and who do not have a lot in common with people who identify differently and who may possibly end up choosing different paths.

It's like people who've graduated from college and are now moving forward in their adult careers, settling down, starting families, getting mortgages. You don't see them hanging out with college kids who have entirely different perspectives and priorities and who will also follow different career paths and live in different areas in different socioeconomic circles, etc.

Some things we can pass on to others, like how to do a specific job that involves an algorithm of sorts, but other things that involve personal choices based on a myriad of variables (personalities, life circumstances, personal desires, etc) cannot be passed on. People need to make choices appropriate for themselves. If you're talking about sticking around to tell someone HOW to transition (medications, which doctors to use, how far to take the transition, how to handle it at work, etc), then again the choices are too varied for one transitioned TS to advise another. Still, there are doctors to answer these questions, therapists, the HR department at work, support forums and groups where some transitioned TSs participate.

Why do you think that a TS woman can better assist someone beginning the process of transition (who is likely not yet sure how far she wants to take this because it does depend on personal circumstances for many people) better than the doctors, therapists, the person's own family, employer, etc.

If you're talking about transitioned women taking up signs and making their transitions public so help inure the public to the few transitioners there are, this is asking a lot. Not every person is prepared to live a public life (thus ruining their prospects of living quietly as a woman) for the sake of others who are not yet out. And what of these others? Should they all come out and carry signs even if they don't fully transition? Do you really think this will make a difference?

If you're not talking about any of these things, then I'm at a loss to understand your main point.