Comments on: Calling out the gatekeepers on youth transition http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/ perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:41:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC2 By: Rebecca http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-65 Rebecca Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:08:35 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-65 thanks for the link, nix! much appreciated! and zoe, also - thanks. Yeah, I've been pretty lucky in that respect, but the very that it happened at all still makes me so angry. thanks for the link, nix! much appreciated!

and zoe, also - thanks. Yeah, I’ve been pretty lucky in that respect, but the very that it happened at all still makes me so angry.

]]> By: nix http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-63 nix Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:15:00 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-63 i just wanted to say thanks for this post - i linked it on my blog, and i've directed a number of people here via email discussions. i didn't realise i hadn't commented yet! sorry! i just wanted to say thanks for this post - i linked it on my blog, and i’ve directed a number of people here via email discussions. i didn’t realise i hadn’t commented yet! sorry!

]]> By: Zoe Brain http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-47 Zoe Brain Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:16:05 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-47 I'm so sorry that you had to be put through that. When I was in Chonburi, I met a girl who was having SRS the day before her 18th birthday. She'd been on blockers since age 14. And she looked marvellous. On the other hand... I also met her Mum, who is of the same vintage as I am. Now I look pretty awful rather than pretty, but the reaction of both her and her daughter was that neither of them could believe I ever looked any different, and certainly not that I'd ever pretended to be a guy. You look great. You might have looked a little more svelte had you been on blockers, and you certainly wouldn't have been put through 5 unnecessary years of psychic torture. But as regards looks - you suffered no detectable damage that others can see. You know different, but we don't. I’m so sorry that you had to be put through that. When I was in Chonburi, I met a girl who was having SRS the day before her 18th birthday. She’d been on blockers since age 14. And she looked marvellous.

On the other hand… I also met her Mum, who is of the same vintage as I am. Now I look pretty awful rather than pretty, but the reaction of both her and her daughter was that neither of them could believe I ever looked any different, and certainly not that I’d ever pretended to be a guy.

You look great. You might have looked a little more svelte had you been on blockers, and you certainly wouldn’t have been put through 5 unnecessary years of psychic torture. But as regards looks - you suffered no detectable damage that others can see. You know different, but we don’t.

]]> By: Not So Guilty… « Cheerful Megalomaniac http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-45 Not So Guilty… « Cheerful Megalomaniac Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:35:49 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/27/calling-out-the-gatekeepers-on-youth-transition/#comment-45 [...] Society does not make it easy for us. Not even those that are meant to support us, make it easy. [...] […] Society does not make it easy for us. Not even those that are meant to support us, make it easy. […]

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