tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883208894706839450.post5275145357886884118..comments2023-06-02T09:43:42.178-05:00Comments on J.A.T.G.A.B. Jewish Author Tough Gay Activist Bear: Another Good Reason to Wear Condoms!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11792277745958053121noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883208894706839450.post-29109434017860722852008-04-19T21:52:00.000-05:002008-04-19T21:52:00.000-05:00Many thanks for your comments, Ksen. I appreciate ...Many thanks for your comments, Ksen. I appreciate hearing what you have to say on the matter. I was pretty much just being facetious with my gay bar scenario, but I appreciate your explaining the reality of the situation. <BR/><BR/>You also have made it clear why it is so important for ENDA to include transsexuals, and why no one (especially someone who needs a job) would want to wait several years longer to be included in a new bill. <BR/><BR/>I'm sure that many people, gay and straight, don't think enough about all the crap that transgendered people have to deal with. <BR/><BR/>Keep your chin up! I greatly appreciate your clarifying things for me and wish you the best. BillAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11792277745958053121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883208894706839450.post-30732014694483762522008-04-19T15:41:00.000-05:002008-04-19T15:41:00.000-05:00Hey Bill, I'm gonna try to address your questions ...Hey Bill,<BR/> I'm gonna try to address your questions one at a time.<BR/>1) Almost no-one is happy with what Beatie did, for a variety of reasons. <BR/>- His self promotion and media tour have already had negative results on the transmale community. He has exposed legal loopholes which allow people to change their gender on state IDs without genital surgery. The common reasoning is that genitals make the man , so it would only make sense to require genital surgery and sterilization. However, the cheapest possibility runs about 12K, which is entirely out of reach for most transfolk. We are disproportionately overeducated and underemployed and simply cannot afford it. Requiring genital surgery to change a state ID makes most transpeople unemployable ( because the ID would out them and ENDA is trans free thanks for Barney Frank, HRC and most stepford fags out there), further locking them into a cycle of poverty. There are already rumblings in the Oregon legislature to amend the law to require genital surgery AND sterilization. Beatie basically fucked over the next generation of FTM's , along with the current one. At least when Matt Rice ( Pat Califia's ex) had a baby, he had the sense not to turn himself into a circus. <BR/>- Secondly, he essentially made the lot of us look like we're crazy/confused/paying-the-system/cheaters. Most FTM's would never ever do this for the simple fact that we are men. Men don't get pregnant, full stop. And now this guy comes along, makes like a magician fulling his pregnancy out of a hat and the rest of us are suspect. Add on rabid feminist screaming about privilege ( Advocate.com letters section is a 'goldmine') and you have the picture. He has essentially demolished 10 years worth of work and activism to validate our right to exist.<BR/>- On another note, he has the gall to bitch about not getting support from Lambda et al, but he was advised , over and over not to go public.... What a selfish dumbfuck.<BR/><BR/>2) As far as your gay bar horror scenario, I'd have to say that it's biologically impossible. Testosterone effectively shuts down the female reproductive system. A transman who's been on T long enough to have the beard and the stud build would have a reproductive system that's so awash in the male hormone that there is no chance of pregnancy, accidental or otherwise. Beatie had to be off T for 2 years ( which to me is nuts), and have a few rounds with the turkey baster to get knocked up.<BR/>That said, any self respecting horny gay guy should be using the rubbers. Syphilis, HIV and the rest of them are hardly an experience anyone want.<BR/><BR/>-KJUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435587456231259609noreply@blogger.com