Elizabeth (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:08 pm I really tried to bite my tongue here, but it has become exceedingly difficult. I am a moderator at a forum that gives support to transgendered people. Many people arrive there completely destroyed after being disowned by family and friends as well as divorce and forced separation from children.
Just so all of you know, "shemale" is a derogatory term to transsexuals. It's the same as the n-word. It's a term used by pornographers to sell pornography of people who can not find other work because of their gender issues and lack of a support system to fall back on. Having a discussion about how one prefers their exploited transsexual, with testicles or without testicles is somewhat upsetting and dehumanizing.
I am not a chick with a dick or a shemale. I am a woman that was born with a birth defect. My brain was not masculinized when I was in my mother's womb and because of that I ended up with a male body and a female mind.
Like most people in pornography, the vast majority of transsexuals that are in it are not there because they want to be. They feel they have no other choice. No other way to make money to either live or transition. Because of this some will discontinue hormone treatment so they can perform sexually, either in porn or as prostitutes.
Having said that, there are those who are female impersonators and take hormones or silicone injections just to get breasts or change fat distribution to that of a female, so they can pass as females. There are many transsexuals living in stealth that no one even knows they are transsexuals. Anyone who thinks they can tell the difference is really kidding themselves and I can for sure set up a test to identify them that anyone will fail.
While I concede that Asians tend to be more passable because of having a smaller stature, there are plenty of Caucasians that are perfectly passable. Also many transsexuals choose castration over GRS/SRS because it's both cheaper and easier to recover from. This is usually transsexuals who are indifferent to sex or are attracted to same sex and do not ever plan on having penetrative sex, or it's just not important to them. The advantage being that one can take much less female hormones if one does not have to overcome testosterone. This is not only cheaper but it also reduces the risks of taking female hormones.
Now I know there are all kinds of people out there and I am sure that some do it just for a sexual thrill. But those people are a small minority of the transsexual population and referring to the rest of us as "shemales" or "chick's with dicks" is pretty degrading.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth-
Thank you for standing up for/to something other than the veiws that I and the rest of these pigs have voiced.
I fully respect and support the point that "shemale" or "chicks with dicks" can become a derogitory term just as "boy" or "girl", "capon", "gay" or "dyke". Sometimes it depends on who is using the term and how, then other times it depends on the historical era associated with the term.
"I'm squelling ok...already!"
chilli-
) I will post the web address here so that you can "see" a nice example for yourself.