🚀 go-pugleaf

> 'coming out' as a crossdresser is a major step.  Society seems to have
> accepted the fact that people's sexual attraction may vary from person
> to person, but not their sexual identity.  In _Fantastic Women_ Annie
> Woodhouse a UK sociologist describes the discomfort that occurs when
> approached by a person whose sex is indeterminate.  The first thing we
> notice about a person is what his/her sex is.	 This determines how we
> relate to them, how we talk to them, our manners, potential courtship
> rituals, status, and on and on.
>

Sounds like a opportunity for a real entrepreneur.  How about buttons that
say things such as:

       -------          -------
      /       \        /       \
     /         \      /	        \
    /-----------\    /-----------\
    |  I'm het  |    |I'm bi     |
    ------------|    ------------|
    | I'm a TV  |    |I'm a CD'er|
    \-----------/    \-----------/
     \         /      \    	    /
      \_______/        \_______/

>
> Our society is simply not prepared to give up this basic
> differentiation.  There is also, as Virginia Prince, has written, the
> stigma of moving *down* rather than *up* in status when CD'd.	 AS woman
> who is wearing men's clothing societally increases her status.  A male
> weraing female's clothing is doing the opposite.  That this is true is
> awful, but a fact of our society and history.

Don't know the answer to this one.  That is until women are finally
treated as equals.  Of course that will probably happen long before
gender dysphoria is accepted.  I don't expect to see either in my lifetime.

Hugs
Tierney

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