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Lisaben's avatar

A few short years ago, those of us who were doing public speaking in favor of marriage equality answered many questions about the "transgender umbrella". I did my research; the vast majority of people under said umbrella were straight men who used to be called "transvestites" (men who found it erotic to dress as women- I AM SIMPLIFYING). The smallest percentage was "transsexual people". There was very little evidence that these numbers weren't correct. Now, we are supposed to pretend that all of these straight men are women. This is crazy-making, pure and simple.

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Thank you Jennifer Bilek, for giving us the info we really need to know, along with the insidious nature of it. My experience as a trans widow, seeing the "transvestite = transsexual" metamorphosis before my eyes 30 years ago, takes the general into the personal. While I wasn't lured into using pornography the way Shannon Thrace was by her then husband (as detailed in her new memoir, 18 Months, Firestone), the groomer my then husband went to made all sorts of suggestions about it. I participated in one meeting to tell her to stop trying to indoctrinate him into indoctrinating me. We must keep our feet on the ground, our souls in our beings, our children in their natal bodies!

Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com (mind/body sequences, data from valid studies)

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