Model Undergoing Gender Reassignment

I am a M2F transgendered woman. When I came out, I encountered some rudeness from the LGBT community, but thankfully for the most part, people have been very wonderful and supportive. I think that with any community, you are going to have a few ignorant jerks. When dealing with straight or gay people's confusion about the proper use of pronouns, rather than getting upset or militant about it... I try to educate them that it is really pretty simple. If a person is obviously presenting themselves as a certain gender, you use the appropriate pronoun. It is not political correctness. It is just basic human kindness and decency. When put that way, it sets some ambiguity aside, and gives them a clear choice to be polite, or deliberately mean.

The woman this article was written about was born knowing she is female. She did not 'change her gender'. I think one reason many publications choose to use 'gender change' instead of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) is the are trying to be PC. The other reason is misogyny. Many gay men have absoultly no interest in learning about woman issues. Unfortunately this group combined with those who outright hate woman have little if any friction from a 1/3 of the gay community when treating transgender people disrespectfully. I say 1/3 from experence. As I have found through advocacy there is a 1/3 of the gay population I have never met and would never have come into contact with had I not became a lighting rod for misogony by opposing vocally this insidious cancerous social disease.

Joseph: No, I am pretty sure she thought that she wanted to look how she feels. Justin: How inconsiderate of you, please use HER correct pronoun. Mike: thank you for doing your best to give positive coverage, but using the term gender reassignment makes it seem as if she is not already a woman, when it is her sex that does not match her gender. A preferred term is gender affirmation surgery or sexual reassignment surgery. Thank you for your interest and willingness to participate in the trans community.

Thank you Mike Camardelle for the respectful statement!! It is rare these days to get that from a gay it seems!! I try to comment here when disparaging remarks are made against us trans! But then I am blasted for being temerarious enough to make a comment!! It makes a girl wonder if it is worth the effort!! BTW I am also a post-op tran-woman!!

I must say that until recently, I'd never understood the Trans community. That is, until I attended a support group meeting specifically for transgendered or transitioning M2F and F2M people. Fortunately, they were open to an 'outsider' attending their group and while my questions were very respectful, they were very invasive to get down to the root of what these people were going through. I've never had the inclination to change my sex, but had experienced some of the same fundamental events as a younger adult, but there was a difference. While I'd played with dolls as a child, and fantasized about men, I'd never gone the next step of dressing as female nor considering myself to be female. I did fight the inclinations of being gay, as they fought their feelings, but I never felt like I was in the wrong body. By the end of the group, I had a new found appreciation for the 'T' in LGBT and found a bunch of new friends. It's all about education and acceptance.

@Erin and Alex: Sadly, the French LGB community is no different, especially the gays ( lesbians tend to disapprove with a lot more class). I think the biggest problem is the lack of information . General reluctance to inquire about basic trans issues and facts can often go as far as downright refusal of the smallest effort. Straight people are more receptive, maybe they do feel less endangered. BTW , Lea T. is SOOO hot and beautiful, it makes people even nastier. Jealous lot. As for me, i don't fuck categories. I fall for people, whatever their "race" (not a scientific concept), age, gender, sexual orientation, social status, handicap status, religion or lack of. I don't do right wingers, though, wonder why. The funny thing is, many people believe at first i am that boring , straight and extremely monogamous cisgender person. When they learn otherwise it deeply disturbs their idea of what normalcy is. Fun!!

Alas, the problem usually tends to be that the community expects all of its members to be gay first, gay second, and gay last, with no consideration that they may be other things. The gay community doesn't like women's issues (unless a lesbian is leading the charge) or racial issues (unfortunately even if a non-white gay is leading the charge) and the community DEFINITELY doesn't like gender identity issues. Why? My guess is because it's confusing as hell to wrap your head around. It makes people uncomfortable, so they get snarky and stupid about the issue and forget that they get put down the exact same way they are putting others down. I can understand a lesbian getting upset if she finds a penis in the panties of a beautiful woman she's making out with, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to suddenly start jumping down trans people's throats. If you can't accept someone for who they are and how they feel then you have no right to demand acceptance yourself.

Why is the LGB community so nasty and negative towards the Trans community. Seriously, a good portion of the LGB community has some kind of gender identity issues. As a Trans person myself. Who does identifies as and is a lesbian and yet gets trash from the LGB community as to where and how I fit in. I find it hard to conceive just how, as a community, the LGBT expects to get any real equal rights until we ALL work together. If we expect equal treatment than we need to treat people equally ourselves. Otherwise we are no better than the hypocritical mass that is the conservative right. It is time to stop the nastiness and come together as a community.

I think he looks better as a boy........

Well, I guess I know who the model was inspired by. The "he" must have thought "Let me put on a wig and I look like Alanis Morissette." (Seriously, though, I did think that was a picture of Alanis at first and was wondering why the article had a picture of Alanis beside it.)