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

I popped the 'recently awoken to the piffle transexuals have to deal with' in my tag after attending a conference held by my employer's LGB network. Yep, it's usually LGB&T but now I know why our 'T's have a separate network.

I'd never considered the specific problems that transgendered people face and now feel comparatively lucky that I'm just a gay guy! Transgender people are still classed as having a medical disorder, have to divorce their partner before being able to get a civil partnership (yep: if you've been married to someone for twenty years and then one of you under gender realignment you can't just amend the marriage certificate - you have to divorce and then get a civil partnership. Ridiculous) and are subject to a lack of understanding that LGBs can only imagine.

Of course, this is in addition to the problems LGB people face (coming to terms with it, deciding whether or not to come out, potential discrimination...) Transexuals have all these problems too, only more so.

I just wanted to get this out of my system before changing my tag back. Damn, I wish I'd taken some notes during the speech but I, like most of the room, was too enthralled and enraged at the time.

Right, now that's off my chest I need another tag line.

I'm sorry but I have no feelings on this what so ever

TPTB have always been complete @r$es where Gay,Bi Lesbian Transsexual marriages are concerned, Whoop! thats nothing new. And as for problems so ing what! Everyone faces problems, discrimination, people who just generally make it there life long ambition to be a pain in the @r$e, but not everyone harps on about it all the time, they just get on with it.

E.G My great grandfather brought his family to England from Spain to escape Franco's dictatorship. He was a very intellegent man, and was a banker in his own country, he spoke English. Was he able to get a decent job here considering his abilities? No because he was an immigrant he had to take a labours job, which was a lot less money than what the family were used to living on. Did he moan and wine his lot about how he an intelligent man was being discriminated against just because he wasn't English, No he ing well just got on with it!


I shall step down from my soap box now and normal viewing can resume

But is it not true that without the moaners of the past the present would be a harsher place? Why *shouldn't* transexuals (and, for that matter, the rest of us) have respect, understanding and a lack of discrimination?

I'm not saying we shouldn't, what I'm saying is I get totally Pi$$ed of with people who are 'oh woe is me, look how sad my life is, the universe is totally picking on me'

I do not have any objection at all to campaigning to make things better.

Ah, cool.

I must say that speech wasn't particularly whiney but it was a bit eye opening. Consciousness raising I suppose.

I can only imagine the sense of isolation that one would feel caught between not only one's gender but also of society's expectations of one's identity.

sorry, looked at the thread title and thought 'ooh, that's an intresting change to GuideML'

I dread to think what it would do.

piffle????

I didn't think I'd get away with BS!

wellllllll

god i'm board this evening, horlicks is not the answer but part of the problem........................... who said that i've got to wear slippers around the house, flip flops are better than slippers

I'm bored too. There are 45,600 results on Google for "transexual slippers" by the way. Not started on Horlicks yet. Flip-flops could be fun....

zdt

When I used to work at BT a guy once rang up and asked me if I were wearing flip flops. Apparently he liked the kind with the big plastic flowers on

Oh no those are awful!
I have a pair of fluffy bunny slippers - do those count for anything?

yes

*Nods sagely*

Indeed.

Willst thou repent?

zdt

never