Comments on: Receipt, Please? http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/29/624/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: micheleangelique http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/29/624/comment-page-1/#comment-595 micheleangelique Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:04:52 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=624#comment-595 Dear Helen, You are someone who is highly regarded within the transgender community. Through your writing, you have made impressive strides in bringing transgenderism to a wider audience. You also provide a great deal of support, compassion, encouragement and wisdom for transgendered people. I admire everything that you are doing. Because of your high profile, and literary esteem, I am most exceptionally concerned to read a post such as this. I must respectfully object to much of what you are saying here. In my opinion your message is alltogether dismal, and conveying a negative perception of transgenderism. While you may contend that you are speaking of stark reality, I say, our transgender friends have two choices... They can regard their transgenderism as either a blessing or a curse. Society will eventually adopt the same perspective. For this reason, I implore you Helen, as a leader and role model in the community, to strive to uplift our transgendered sisters. You are in a position to help them a great deal; conversely you have the power to hurt them deeply with pessimistic or careless wording. I feel your message presented in this article is damaging, yet I realize this is not your intent. In response to what you are saying, I respectfully offer a differing perspective. http://genderevolve.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_genderevolve_archive.html Love & Light, Michele Angelique www.genderevolve.com Dear Helen,

You are someone who is highly regarded within the transgender community. Through your writing, you have made impressive strides in bringing transgenderism to a wider audience. You also provide a great deal of support, compassion, encouragement and wisdom for transgendered people. I admire everything that you are doing.

Because of your high profile, and literary esteem, I am most exceptionally concerned to read a post such as this. I must respectfully object to much of what you are saying here.

In my opinion your message is alltogether dismal, and conveying a negative perception of transgenderism. While you may contend that you are speaking of stark reality, I say, our transgender friends have two choices… They can regard their transgenderism as either a blessing or a curse. Society will eventually adopt the same perspective.

For this reason, I implore you Helen, as a leader and role model in the community, to strive to uplift our transgendered sisters. You are in a position to help them a great deal; conversely you have the power to hurt them deeply with pessimistic or careless wording. I feel your message presented in this article is damaging, yet I realize this is not your intent.

In response to what you are saying, I respectfully offer a differing perspective. http://genderevolve.blogspot.c.....chive.html

Love & Light,
Michele Angelique
http://www.genderevolve.com

]]> By: Mandee522 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/29/624/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Mandee522 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:29:24 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=624#comment-441 Helen- I agree with you. I think of my 'gender gift' the way Tevye thought about being one of the "chosen people". If you recall in the play and movie "Fiddler on the Roof"- when his life is going down the toilet- he looks up in the sky and says "Choose somebody else!" If we are honest- TG is at best a "dubious gift". You do have a marvelous way of "outing" bullshit Helen. Mandee Helen- I agree with you. I think of my ‘gender gift’ the way Tevye thought about being one of the “chosen people”. If you recall in the play and movie “Fiddler on the Roof”- when his life is going down the toilet- he looks up in the sky and says “Choose somebody else!” If we are honest- TG is at best a “dubious gift”.
You do have a marvelous way of “outing” bullshit Helen.
Mandee

]]> By: deborah http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/29/624/comment-page-1/#comment-400 deborah Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:47:26 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=624#comment-400 "All that is gold does not glitter". I don't read very much but I think that was from Fellowship of the Rings and I always liked that twist on Shakespeare. But basically I agree with you. “All that is gold does not glitter”. I don’t read very much but I think that was from Fellowship of the Rings and I always liked that twist on Shakespeare. But basically I agree with you.

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