Trans-sexuals and society

I'm a pre-op ts working for the NHS in London.
For many years I was afraid to accept the truth about myself due to the risk of being abused, tormented, disowned, loosing my job & being arrested.
Since coming out whilst working for the NHS, I have only had a couple of problems, of which most of those have been out in the community with teenagers.
The Trust that I work for has started going single sexed & are looking at gender diversity. This has also lead to them looking at how they treat & deal with the transgender community & educationing staff. I have given 2 talks about what it's like being a transgendered individual.
One of the areas that is being looked at is when admitted to hospital with single sexed wards where do you place a pre op ts.
This caterpillar is waiting for the butterfly to burst free.

I have the up-most respect for the Transgender Community, it takes a brave person to go through not only go through years of torture and bullying from an ignorant society, but to actually realise ones identity and go through years of Psychotherapy and Surgery to get the body you want (Not just outside but inside) takes a lot of courage and determination.

Judging a book by its cover eh? You may not stupid, but you are foolish.
I respects trans-sexuals greatly, I think it requires a great deal of courage to do what they do, simply because of fools like yourself. Believe me, these people have more strength of character than you do. And as for "the rights of all those people that are sickened by your actions and appearance", tell me, what rights are those?

I believe that all these misfits of nature should display some form of identification on an outer garment. You are frightening to the eye and I personally feel very uncomfortable upon the sight of some of you.

Don't bother going into depth about understanding and attempt to make me of low intelligence for I'm not. Stop spouting on about your rights, what about the rights of all those people that are sickened by your actions and appearance?

I don't care if people are transexuals or not, as long as they don't overdo it on the make up and only wear short skirts if they have nice legs. That rule applies to all females, regardless of whether they are biologically born females or not.

Poor Sian Griffiths... I'm sure many of us will feel sympathy for the poor chap's evident lack of intelligence and education. Does he understand the difference between transsexuals and transvestites, I wonder ? Does he not realise that he wouldn't even notice the more successful transsexuals as they pass him by in the street - he'd probably be too busy leering and slobbering. He sees the least successful "trannies" and lumps everyone together in the same boat.
I am a post-op transsexual. I paid for my operation myself. I have a job, I have children, I'm considered to be very pretty and feminine, I climb mountains, paraglide, hang-glide, ski, snowboard, windsurf, rollerblade long distances. I'm probably twice as intelligent as Sean, three times more presentable and 10 times happier. Nor do I feel the need to insult others as he seems to do. Poor Sian is a twit.

Im sure transexals do exist, Ive seen them with their bad taste in womens clothing, their five o clock shadows, their huge adams apples, their size 13 feet, the hair on their legs showing through their vile american tan tights, their hands like shovels etc etc, yes, they do exist, and Im glad they do, because they are entertaining for the well adjusted people of society, what else could we laugh at while drinking our Latte's outside a Cafe. Thanks Trannies, you make us laugh like drains!

I once had a man tell me it was a womans world because we can wear what ever we want....I think he was trying to tell me how difficult it was for him to cross dress, but I took such offence to his at the time witless seeming words I told him he was an idiot! Forgive me, but I was nineteen at the time! I think there needs to be a "new face of Trans-gender". If more people are educated, less hate crimes will be committed. I have found that as the "New Face of Domestic Violence" myself. Good Luck!

One of my best friends is transexual and it took them allot of courage to come out to me , I am really proud of them for not being ashamed of who they are . I think that society in general doesn't have as musch acceptance for transexuals as they do for LBG people and we need to get this issue out in the open so that we can stop the discrimination.

If I thought it was worthwhile I'd say something about 'women's clothing' and why the concept exists when many women wear clothing that is traditionally thought of as male - jeans, pullovers etc. Whether it is down to an excessive genderisation of our society which views the male as the standard and anything else (female or TS or TV) as a deviation from that, and who it is that thinks women are required to wear short skirts and high heels to 'fit in' in some way.

The Muysli, are you a Daily Mail reader by any chance? It all seems to come down to money for you. How do you feel about disabled people getting a monthly visit from a sex worker, paid for by the State? I expect you're against that too.

Born again woman, well said. There are some extremely low inteligence individuals in the world and it would seem that a few of them found this page. Ignore them, for they know nothing about this subject