h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I felt a need to comment on your text, not because I know exactly what to say but because it's worth being read, and I wanted you to know I did.
I suppose that I really can't apologize for other people's behavior and make it come out right, and I don't know how it feels. I am not the person people usually confide in so you're right - I have no idea if I have ever met a transsexual person.
What I am trying to say is if I come out sounding prejudice it's because I don't have the knowledge and I am sorry.
It's funny how deviating sexual orientation is what people resent most of all. It's like they fear it will somehow rub off and make them too into something not quite accepted. After all aren't people measured by the company they keep?

Thanks for you comment Queen, Don't worry about being predudiced for everyone is especially me. The important thing is to accept others dispite your predudices, and not to harm or ostrocise them for their differences. To be different from the norm, is not to my mind a crime, and so I am happy as me (though I do dearly wish that I had simply been born with body and mind as a matching pair)

Thank you again, and I wish you all the happiness you can cope with...

Thank you for an informative intro article on TS. It's a subject I'm hazy on, hence I thought I'd read.

I have met one TS, and I think the main manifestation of confusion and prejudice towards her [amongst people I knew] was basically, not being quite sure how to address her in transition phase. Now the process is complete though, the people that I know that know her as well, seem perfectly okay about it, and address her by her new name, etc.

I can't make up my mind if that is bad or unfair.

Hope

Well, Ygg...you very well may HAVE met a transgendered person. With the state of surgial procedures these days, and the skill of plastic surgeons capable of sculpting faces, its getting harder and harder to tell "us" from everyone else.

But thats not what's important.

Chances are you HAVE met a transgendered person...but what matters most is the PERSON part.

You met a PERSON...someone who is loving, caring, intelligent, vulnerable, and who may or may not be willing to discuss their personal choices. Someone who has every right to live his or her life in a manner they see fit, to achieve happiness.

That's really what transgenderism is about, to me. It has nothing to do with sex, or even gender. It has EVERYTHING to do with being one's self, and being happy.

I once helped a friend of mine accept my choices after he had given me the "God made you male, you should stay male" speech.

He had recently gone through surgery to correct a heart defect which he had suffered from since birth. I simply reminded him that God made him with a bad heart, and he got that fixed...

What we do and how we live is, honestly, harmless. If I want to change my sex, or change my socks, it really has no effect on the life of anyone else. Where is the harm?