What is the deal with people and their prejudice against transsexuals?

Question

I f**king love them although some of them can be mean, but that's everyone in every group, let's not generalize. Yet I fear in my community that the prejudice and violence towards male to female transsexuals is staggaring. Not too long ago there were assults on two transsexual females and one of them goes to my college. I want to bring awareness but even in my own LBGT group on campus of 40 students (open); I did not recieve any support. Are there any good sites to help those affected by these assults directly? What should I do?

The one that goes to my school has not been in class; due to the assult. I want to help her but I don't want to "scare" her. Is there any way I can reach out without seeming too pushy to help? I given her space but I don't think she knows too well and to her I'm probably "another student''....Thanks!

Answer 1

check THIS out:

www.rememberingourdead.org



It's a website that's like an online memorial to all the transgendered/transsexual and gender deviant people who have lost their lives due to anti homophobic and transgender violence. Most were murdered.

Answer 2

It is because TSs are lumped in with homosexuals, LGBTs, TGs, etc. When TSs cut all their associations with all these other groups and make it clear to everyone that they have mainstream values and side with the mainstream against all these other groups, only then will TSs be respected.

A way to help TSs get accepted is to point out to society how mainstream they are and how different they are from TGs and all other LGBTs. We need to promote the idea that TSs are not living a choice or a lifestyle, but are suffering from a serious birth condition. Gays and TGs don't require medical attention to be who they are. TSs do. Make it clear that TSs are not men who become women, but women born with the wrong parts.

One way LGBT groups can help is to make it clear to the public that TSs are members of the mainstream community and not a part of the LGBT. As long as TSs are seen as being a part of the LGBT, they will be attacked. Another way LGBT groups can help is get out of the way of TSs, let them stand on their own two feet, and allow them to have their own movement with NO TG or LGBT involvement or "help" at all.

A true TS is the gender they present themselves as. It is very rude and degrading to call them a "him/her." If they live as a woman, they are a woman and the correct pronoun is she. The true MtF takes great pains to destroy all masculinity within themselves. To call them a "him/her" is to deny them of the work they did, their validity, and their very identity. If the MtF thought people would use the word "him" around her in any context, she would have never transitioned. The whole idea behind transition for the MtF is so nobody will discover that the person had this birth defect and so people will treat them as a normal woman who never had to go through this.

Answer 3

I'm fortunate. I'm one of the 6 sigma TS that no one can read, even in bed. It wasn't always that way. During transition, I was out. Really no other way to transition and still work at the place you work. I was at the top of my profession. I had support by my management and many supporters at that company. Yet, there were some who feared me. Mostly younger less educated . Many were females. There were complaints to HR about my using the women's bathrooms. There were whispers and threats. All because I came out during transition. I was well known in the industry I was in. Some people, however, did not know my history. Some of the men would hit on me while others who knew my past would joke behind their and my backs. Fear drove me out of that industry to start a new career. Fear of some man who didn't read me discovering my past and becoming enraged. I moved into another industry, another part of the country and became successful. no one knows of my history and I feel safe. Simply put, I think your friend and I were simply born several centuries to early. Society is not ready to accept that a persons gender identity may differ from their born physical attributes and the risks to be out are far to great.

Answer 4

i try not to worry about what people think or say about me per
sonally, or as a whole or group. because i have every right to
be here, as you do. if you dont like me, then you are the one w
ith the problem. i like, love and care for me through and throu
gh, and nothing and nobody, is going to make me change.i a
m a female or woman transsexual, thats a woman trapped in a mans body. and i am very much a woman, and i am very ha
ppy and proud of myself to no-end. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
THIS SUNDAY, TO ALL OF YOU BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY. WA
RM, WONDERFUL, CARING, GIVING, SHARING, and just fo
r being there when you are needed most mothers, moms, and
women of every walk of life. and daddys who fall into the cata
gory of mr. or daddy mom, we salute all of you on this special
day. ok, take yourselves out to lunch and dinner, buy yourselv
es flowers , candy and roses, or chop a cherry tree, and make
yourselves a pie? or have the kids serve you breakfast in bed
while you do a cross word puzzle? for whatever reason, just re
member that this is your special day and moment, to be enjoy
ed and appreciated by all you come in contact with.

Answer 5

About the one in your school, just be her friend and defend her against all of the jerks out there, or find her a boy/girl friend.
The thing that most people see wrong with them is that they are acting according to normal rules, even in the way that gay people are in public. When people see a transgender type, a lot of them feel more threatened because, and I am willing to bet on this, THEY ARE ATTRACTED TO THEM.
I have met several transgender type gay men and thought that they were hot, especially before I figured them out(Boy George, when he first showed up in the 80's). This brings me to another reason that people hate them, they feel as if they have been lied to.
Start a LBGT group, there is nothing wrong with that at all, and tell everyone that has a problem to shove it up their *&^*&&, ok?

Answer 6

Well they're a minority within a minority, that's why they get picked on so much. They need to get information to the public about how it's basically a medical condition.

Information is the only thing that can really set them free.

As for your classmate, I don't know. My advice to her sadly would be to move to a more tolerant area or society.

Answer 7

I know of one transsexual in a town of a few thousand, and I love him/her to death!!

Answer 8

FEAR