Bits and Pieces 01

Sunday, 18 June 2006 21:00 Lisa Jain Thompson

... meeting a friend years before the 2008 elections

leaves a person not transgendered

with the World Cup

and other concepts to do without …

Springfield, Virginia, USA. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear . . . more specifically, the three dot columns of Herb Caen in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Meeting a friend decades later. Last week I was doing my day job at a meeting at the PEO for Enterprise Information Systems when I released that a colleague was there I hadn’t seen since a decade or more before my ... back when that other person was masquerading as me.

As the meeting progressed, the usual inward awkwardness … does he recognize me? … if he does, what should I say? … if he doesn’t recognize me, shall I tell him? … suppose he’s put off by my transition ? … the usual transsexual B.S. ….

After the meeting he walked over to me … “Hi, I’m John M … we worked with each other in a previous life …” so much for my worries …

Three years out, 2008 presidential candidates are anyone’s guess. But here is who I would vote for along with various organization objections:

Candidate	Wingnut Objections

1. Barack Obama	Does not buy into victimization ; Views similar to Bill Cosby
2. Mark Warner	Southern Moderate ; Techie Capitalist
3. Hillary Clinton	Not Liberal enough ; Does not oppose Iraq War
4. John McCain	Republican ; Does not oppose Iraq War

Who I would not vote for along with my objections:

Candidate	My Objections

1. John Dean	Not presidential material ; “the scream”
2. John Kerry	Inarticulate campaigner ; Cannot defend positions on issues
3. Al Gore	Poor campaigner ; Loser
4. John Edwards	Jack Kennedy’s charm with Ted Kennedy’s brain ; Cannot win a national election

The only one I’ve talked to on Transsexual issues is Mark Warner when he was governor. He seemed interested.

So that’s that …

Why I am not transgendered. My gender has never changed. I have ALWAYS been a woman … from the moment of my conception. What was wrong, what HAS changed, is my genitals.

… follow along in your textbook …

1. I was born with a birth defect … a penis was attached to my body.

2. My brain has always been female … my gender has always been female … the genes to grow my body were expressed inaccurately because of missent hormone activations and other genetic DNA/RNA application errors. If that has confused you …

3. I am TRANS nothing, certainly not my gender. I have been, and always will be, a woman, Jim …

4. Gender is not a penis ... Gender is not a vagina and uterus ... Gender Identity is not between your legs … It’s between your ears inside your brain … part of few pounds of squishy gray wetware …

5. all sparks and tastes and tangles, all its stimulus and response patterns – the whole biocybernetic software of mind … was already female at birth …

Ecce Femina!

The World Cup ... what do you think would happen if we train a group of six foot four natural athletes … the kind that are a dime a dozen on basketball courts and baseball stadiums … to play soccer and gave them four or five years training ….

… how would the current world champions feel about going on field against a team that outweighed them by an average fifty pounds … do the conversion to kilograms yourself

… and outgrew them by 6 inches or more … ditto the metric …

… what would the world think then? … bet they would ask for more drug tests …

Concepts we could do without …

Identity Politics
Men’s Tennis
Six Sigma
Getting in touch with your feminine side
Fundamental anything
My country right or wrong
Infallible leaders
Straight men in dresses in women’s restrooms
Blind faith
Meddlesome editors
Reality T.V.
Censorship
Righteous indignation
The wingnuts on either extreme …

The views expressed in this column are those of the columnist. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Transsexual Symposium, Inc. (TS-Si), its subsidiaries, affliates, or partners.

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