On Line Dating and the Trans Girl (or Man)!
Years ago as I was seriously coming out at transgender, I explored the world of on-line dating sites fairly heavily. The places I didn't go were the ones who "specialized" in cross dresser, transgender or transsexual dating for fairly obvious reasons. (Photo, Alessia Cross/Flickr) Other than that, I did actually pay a monthly amount of money for a couple sites and a couple others were free. I found out quickly though, I got what I paid for. In fact, I found my partner Liz and my trans man friend on the same site - one I paid for. I put myself in the woman seeking woman category and then in the first sentence, I said I was transgender. Then I was amazed how many didn't ready the profile anyhow. Regardless, back in those days though, it was exceedingly difficult for a transgender person to even start the process of finding another person on any site. You were forced into the binaries of men seeking women, women seeking women, men seeking men, etc. Recently