User:Twd1975/sandbox

GENDER AND SOCIETY

There are tremendous misunderstandings out in society between the trans and "cis" populations. Public opinion seems to sway with the greater numbers of Average or Cis people ( "Normal" is never to be use...lacks definition and is judgmental) This site has many good pages; there are many professionals in medicine and psychiatry; Many good ideas among the educated. But lets talk about my daily exercise of interacting with the masses ( Der Mensch-en).

I am a post-op Trans-woman; transitioned 8yrs ago and fully legal. For the last 25 years I have been doing gender education and activism; a guest speaker in college classrooms; on televisions shows; in the halls of Congress(1995). It is an uphill life for me and other TS women. We have libraries of good historical information to share. The public on the other hand has just one sentence: "Gender is in the eye of the Beholder!" We are rated and compared with their stereotypes of gender & sex ( not the same concept). Many of us have been insulted and even harmed because we failed their expectations; for males it is sexual rage; for females, gender rage. The gameboard is never balanced until money enters the picture. For your money as a customer and patron,society turns on a smiley face!