Transgendered vs. Transvestite

[tekla west]

Those "boxes" are just terms, words if you will. And what is the other option? Might we play charades here and just act out what we want to say. These terms are created to help define and refine. They allow us to communicate with each other - of course, that only works when people have the capacity to listen. They give us the ability to describe. Not a minor deal. After all, the great power god gave Adam was to name all the animals.

You do not have to look very far to find out that there are a lot of people here who have similar things going on in their lives, but far different outcomes in mind. Those labels are more about the outcome than the behavior at hand, without them the difference between someone undergoing SRS and those who just wear panties are nonexistent, and we know that is just silly.

As for the comments about higher education, spoken like a high school dropout. Only those who do not have any education would undervalue it. I know a guy with a PhD in chemistry, he has 43 patents, including two for medicines that people depend on every day to simply stay alive. (I would hope that if and when you need such drugs, you would have the courage of your convictions and shun the PhD stuff and go without that nonsense.) It was a bunch of PhDs, who once dedicated to war figured out how to kill 70K people in 1/10 of a second - and won the war with two bombs. No small feat. For myself, I am a journeyman in a craft union with certs in electrical work (for electrical power that could power a small city), in rigging for tons of weight that hang directly over people's heads, and for sound design that had to be turned down because people five miles away thought it was too loud. I also work as a safety officer for pyrotechnics in sold-out indoor venues. I take that stuff very seriously - and I get the call because they know I take it seriously and because I can fully and completely understand the ramifications of what we are doing. Lives are at stake. Not a minor point.

Matter of fact, most of the technologies you are using to make that computer in front of you work, were in fact, PhD projects. That 'point and click' deal that Windows uses, the mouse deal you relied upon to make your computer work? Well, it was developed by a PhD so that people with mental developmental disabilities could use a computer. Lucky for you eh? Because, well, how's 'yer DOS commands these days?