From: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
Subject: Re: My Story...
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:13:22 GMT
Reply-To: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK.

an2881@anon.penet.fi (Shannon) writes:

>	Since I've been reading this, believe it or not, I've felt a sense of 
>	"belonging", and that what I love to do (CD) isn't "that odd" at all. 
                             
Well that's one of the reasons people form groups.  It allows people
with really odd hobbies (eg train spotting) to think what they do is 
okay.  Perhaps a another term for it is peer pressure, and this can
have its bad sides as well eg crime, racism etc

>	I mean, think about how relatively few people are net users and how 
>	many of us have reached each other through this newsgroup - I think 
>	it's great!
There might be many thousands of people on the net.

>	The only "down" to the whole thing is some of our reactions that I've
>	seen when an "outsider" feels the need to call us sick or weird. Please
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>	don't encourage them, they are ignorant to what we feel, and would 
>	never understand - just ignore it and it will go away. It really will.

Before you criticise those who criticise you think about CD'ing.  Don't
you think there is something odd about wanting strongly to wear certain
clothes purely because you associate them with the opposite sex.

>	Anyway, there's absolutely no way I could "pass"! Like "Joanie", who
>	I mentioned before, I'm 6 feet tall, 185 pounds, very hairy, with the
>	ironic thinning hairline. I'm 99% heterosexual with 1% wondering what
>	it would be like to be interested in, and make love to a penis. I never
>	saw why some women in their 30's (I'm 34) don't care to "perform" 
>	fellatio. If a girl had one (yes I know - they "sorta" do) I'd be all 
>	over it. Other than that, no "homosexual urgings" at all. The 
>	"outsiders" just don't believe that we're *NOT* all gay do they? 

If you read some psychology books you might find that most transvestites
are male, and heterosexual and most are married.

>	the most part ) being male, but like everyone on this newsgroup, I wish
>	there was a switch where I could become female from time to time. A sex
>	change has never entered my mind for a second, but I honestly commend
>	those of you who had the courage to do it. It does take courage and a
>	lot of it - our part of the world (USA) still has incredibly ignorant
>	people who condemn "non-conformists" as we are, as being sick, when we
>	are just being honest with our feelings. 

>	Transgendered... I don't know. Transvestite... I'm not attractive 
>	enough to be. Crossdresser...  CERTAINLY! I absolutely adore the great

Your expressions of desiring to be female temporarily suggest that you 
are maybe a borderline transsexual, not just a transvestite.

>	feelings, the security, the peacefulness, the sexuality, and the
>	comfort of wearing snug fitting lingerie and high heels. Oh, I guess I
>	should mention that around the same timeframe, I discovered bondage,
>	and that's a different story, but I believe that my combination of love
>	for lingerie and bondage stemmed from some "Detective Magazine" covers
>	that a friend of my father had lent him around my "formative years". If
>	you've ever seen them in magazine racks, they almost always featured a 
>	tied-up woman on the cover in a very sexy pose. They were supposed to 
>	depict a woman being attacked but I ignored the violence aspect. 
>	Violence towards anyone is sub-human - this generation should be way 

 No it is not, violence is a very human activity, unfortunately.
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