Canadians Like More Than Hockey!

"Miss Universe Canada has officially accepted Jenna Talackova, a transsexual, as a contestant in the upcoming finals in May 19. Jenna has already represented Canada at Miss International Queen, a beauty pageant for transsexuals. The fact that she was accepted as a contestant raised several ethical and moral issues but for some it is a sign of equality. Canada is one of the progressive nations on earth with a very liberal application of its Equality Law as enshrined in its 1982 constitution.

But many pageant fans are not happy with this. They see it as an affront to the establishment since contests like the Big4 (Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth) are meant for naturally born women. While we've seen lesbians competing at the state level as in the case of Miss California USA 2012, the current issue is far more controversial because this is about a person born as a man and converted himself into a woman.

Still, many see this as a sign of equality and of freedom. After all, Jenna is legally a woman. Supporters say this is about someone who pursue his or her dream and should not be discriminated against.

Then again too, there may be more than a few who are afraid of her winning!!!!

This story came from "MISSOSOLOGY" 

Thanks Bobbie!

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A Rose Grows in India

From"IBN" in India comes yet another story about Rose Venkatesan who is:

"India's first transgender television host and radio jockey,. From Chennai,she said she was excited about the launch of her own political party with a dramatic agenda aimed at sensitizing people towards the plight of women and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Venkatesan said she had big plans for her Sexual Liberation Party of India which she hoped to launch in the next two months. It would be the first party led by a transgender. But the going has been far from smooth. Since 2010, she has been in and out of jobs, faced sexual discrimination at the radio stations she has worked at and her mother refuses to talk to her.
"Not a lot has changed. I look more feminine now, I am more beautiful and I attract a lot more proposals from men, but society is still the same," she said with a laugh. "Of course, none of the men who want to date me would do it in the open and no one ever proposes marriage," (Sound familiar?)
 Venkatesan,  is now a biological  woman after her sex change operation.

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Future Transsexual Olympic Star?

I'm sure you may remember the story of "Lindsay Walker". Her story went public several months ago of how the 7' basketball player is changing her gender.
Most of you I do follow sports closely and I almost was smart enough to wonder if "Lindsay" would ever be allowed to play women's hoops.
Supposedly she is aiming to work out for the 2016 Rio Olympics U.S. women's basketball team.
Anyway you look at it, that would be quite the story.
Regardless of all the sensationalism of a potential transgendered basketball star, "Lindsay" describes it best herself:
"I know there are others like me out there, who are very tall, and because of that they're afraid to come out,' she said.

'It is harder for them to pass as a woman. I want those girls to see me, that I'm seven-foot tall and I'm not afraid to be who I am.

'I feel like the record would convey that message better than my story alone."

Well said!

"Lindsay Walker"

Big Brother Now a Big Sister!

From the UK version of "Big Brother" 2009:

"Rodrigo Before"

"Rodrigo After!"

Transgendered Soldier Comes Home Part II

From Chapel Hill, North Carolina comes a "continuation" story about a transgendered vet.

"On the road from rural North Carolina to the Boston suburbs, Sam Taylor has worn the shoes of a native son, student, soldier, and now, a young woman and religious leader.
“In some ways, I don’t see it as much of a change [but] as a continuation,” said Taylor, who is a transgender woman."
Growing up in a conservative Southern Baptist community didn’t allow much self-expression, Taylor said. Most of her family and friends didn’t learn she planned to come out until she returned with the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion from a tour of duty in Iraq.  "
Read the entire story here on the "Chapel Hills News".

It contains an in depth look at one person's coming out process-
Pro and con!

Definition of a Woman

This is a follow up post to "Whose the Fool Now?" I received a thought provoking comment from "Anne" which just happened to fit in with a post I was beginning to write called the "Sexual Universe".
To clear the air first, I am going to pass along my thought that a female is not a woman.  A female for the purpose of my definition is a child bearing person. No matter how much surgery is done or hormones ingested, no transsexual female has ever given birth-yet. A woman is an mental environmental situation and is ultimately achievable by either gender.
Now on to part of "Anne's" comment: "My question is, if you are "presenting" as a woman, what does that mean? Is it that, based on how you act/dress/speak/feel, you wish to be accepted as a woman? And you desire this even though, despite your "self-identification", you know that you are not, in fact, a woman. Is this why you "identify" as "trans", or a "trans-woman", or "transgender woman", because you are not in fact a woman, despite the fact that you wish/"feel" that you were/are?"
Lets toss out what I feel for the time being. Most of  you know where I'm coming from anyhow and a better idea of my thoughts can be read in a a great academic article by Martine Rothblatt called Billions of Sexes on a site called Institute for Emerging Ethics and Technologies  . 
It's an in depth look at  “a continuum of sex types, ranging from very male to very female, with countless variations in between.”
(It comes from "Jillian Page" at the "Montreal Gazette".)
This is a wonderful resource for those of you who responded to my "Transgendered Mid-Life Crisis" post as well as any transgendered age segment.
For my own purposes I seem to settle somewhere in the middle of the sex types, leaning heavily feminine.  Surprisingly to me, the only group which has a problem with this are the "Trans-Nazi's". This term comes from a "Femulate" post which actually resonates with me strongly. I have been trashed much more ruthlessly by "Trans-Nazi's" than any so called straight person. Let me reference the comment I received calling me (I paraphrase) just another old guy starting hormones.

Now, back to Anne who writes:  "I realize that this is a difficult question and drives right to the issue of just what is a woman, as opposed to a trans-woman. However, until you can answer that question, and then meet whatever criteria YOU set to define womanhood, you will not be able to answer your initial question, "Is...presenting as a woman in public, (when in fact you are not)...'fooling' someone...?"
And even then you will have to contend with those that do not accept your particular criteria or definition, which I would suggest would be the vast majority of the 'mainstream', which in my estimation is no more "bigoted" or "hateful", than you or I. They are simply accepting of the "norm"."

I can only reference the increasingly biological evidence that indeed I am just being myself in public and not "fooling" anyone. The most important person to not fool is myself.
Bottom line, for whatever reason I tried to fool myself for most of my life. No matter what the "norm" is supposed to me, the only "norm" that is important is my own.

**Disclaimer: I have a history degree and sometimes get carried away with references I know. Just thought they were important here!
***Also, for some reason several very old comments to me just showed up in my in box and I posted them today!

Whose the Fool Now!

Every once in a while I run into a person who thinks presenting as a woman in public is compared to "fooling" someone.
Of course I get a just a tad frustrated. I am just trying to be me. I am definitately not trying to fool someone. I would be less than truthful however,  if I told you I don't crave any attention I may receive as any sort of an attractive woman.
Ironically for the most part, the people I have known the longest toss me into the "so you think you are fooling the public?" category.
I can understand them clinging to who I once was-but dammit I'm certainly not trying to fool someone.
Part of me wants to just shut them off totally from my life. Another part wants to educate them.  I'm not the fool, you are!
The truth is I am slowly moving past them. The way I have chosen to live my life with a gradual introduction of hormones will move me past them and you know, I never really have thought of them as fools.
As many of you probably already know, maybe a clean break from the majority of people is not a bad idea!