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Look alike - your thoughts
ebjeebe
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I'm sorry but is this the most uncanny look-a-like you have ever seen? I swear either this is John Terry or someone has been playing around with photoshop! What do you think?
http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/4076812._NHS_is_exploiting_my_life____claims_trasnssexual/
http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/4076812._NHS_is_exploiting_my_life____claims_trasnssexual/
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Something's either right or wrong. You can't have one rule for one group of people and another for another.
If men are allowed to get drunk, then so are women. To say that it's only OK for men is sexism.
I agree with you.
OMG, how can that person go out in public?
I have no problem with transsexual people, I don't know how they feel so I can never comment on their choice if change sex/live as a different sex.
But I wish someone would tell these people how ridiculous they look most of the time. I am yet to be shown someone who used to be another sex and it's not blatantly obvious.
And what is it with their awful sense of fashion?
and there's a heck of a lot of surgery needed there:eek:
This woman is one of the first I've seen wearing realistic clothes.
I remember watching an old program, and there was a scene where recently post-op male-to-female transexuals went to learn about being a woman. You saw them going in.
Rows and rows of floral skirts, cardies, perms and court shoes.
They all looked like they'd borrowed clothes from their Granny!
I think part of the problem is that some Doctors won't operate until you can convince them you're feminine enough, so loads of transexuals end up wearing pink and flowers and tights just to prove they're girly enough.
I know, it's worrying.
Do all men never notice what us women really wear and see our LBD's as floral twin sets?
No, but it does say 'If you drink like a man'... which implies that men are allowed to drink like that but women aren't.
That's how I read it, anyway.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article2210310.ece
If it's not blatantly obvious, you wouldn't notice, would you?
I do alright. No-one gives me a second glance. I walked into a pub full of shipyard workers in Glasgow's Govan district the other week. Not clever if you don't look convincing. There are quite a lot of us about. We blend in quite well, thank you. We're not all wardrobe monsters that escaped from granny's boudoir.
No. I went to my last three meetings at the gender clinic dressed for hill-walking. The medical profession used to be like that about thirty years ago, but not now. At least not in Scotland.
Also Lucy is a girl's name. So she is a "she" not a "he", and not a "fella".
"Please ensure your reply is constructive and adds to the discussion."
The post on the face of it seems to be a snide observation on the necessity of women to look "hot" in order to deserve attention. I could stand corrected though; I'm sure there's a deep and profound message underlying this philosopher's wisdom that has missed me by.
Anyway, Wright Stuff, please...
Oh yes!! I laughed in recognition!!
What choice does she have? None of us have any control over our bone structure, or our genetic heritage.
And, FYI, we're constantly being told we 'look ridiculous'. That's why the two most important attributes a trans person need are a thick skin, and a sense of humour.
I think the key word in that sentence is "old", and it ties in with your last paragraph.
Gender clinics did, in the past, insist on transwomen displaying an unrealistic, stereotypical "50s housewife" appearance. I well recall an argument I had with a well-known (now retired) gender consultant when I turned up in his office one winter morning wearing jeans and flat-heeled boots; eventually I challenged him to look out of his office window and see how many women in the street below were wearing dresses or skirts. Fortunately, they're a little more realistic these days.
There is also the 'reaction effect'; particularly at the start of transition, many trans women do go a little overboard with the pink/frills/heels/et.c. just because they're finally allowed to wear these things. Eventually, we calm down and start to dress more sensibly.
She has her own hair; why would she buy a wig?
So I think they've got good style