Quote Originally Posted by Tracii G View Post
GM its the ones that shoot up to the top hardly stopping that seem to forget there are other floors or levels in the building.
Well, some of us might act that way - in fact some of us do act that way. But the reality is that being a transitioned trans woman is a race to the bottom of the social ladder. Two-three years ago we were sort of on par or a bit below IV drug users, according to surveys. Not a highly regarded class.

Now that we are equated to sexual predators and pedophiles, I can safely say that I am at very nearly the bottom of the social scale - with only trans women of color regarded worse. (And it is worse - nobody shoots a pedophile on sight...)

Quote Originally Posted by Tracii G View Post
If you will notice they even fight among themselves in threads.
Actually, that's all for show. I'm probably not supposed to reveal this, but all the real talk goes on in the "Safe haven" TS only forum. And we're all BFF's! And super-girly. It is exactly what you'd expect! We talk about what nail color we're wearing, and boys, and pillow fights! Oh, and how super fun our new vaginas are - those of us who have them anyway, no harm, no foul if a girl doesn't. Oh, and Beyonce. It's like high-school, but with suicide watch. Scratch that - suicide watch is part of high-school now, so it's exactly the same as high school.

But yes, if you are talking about the caste system here where GG > TS > CD, then yeah, some of us buy into that, and it isn't very nice. (There are further divisions under each of the three broad categories I listed, but young, pretty, and possessing a vagina puts you at the top of two of the three classes...) The idea that some of us are better than others is, unfortunately, a bad habit we bring in with us from cis-society.

I try to not be like that. In fact, if a CD is nice to me, I invite them over to the pillow fight, as a guest...