New Laws Add Hassle for Trans Fliers

@Brandi: The trans spectrum is just that: a SPECTRUM. Your refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of non-binary gender identities mirrors the world's refusal to accept trans identities. You suggest that it is somehow unacceptable or wrong to "jump back and forth" on a whim, or that your identity as a diagnosed transexual is somehow superior to other trans identities, which leads me to ask: Does mainstream medicalized diagnosis prove legitimacy of a marginalized identity? Is it not reifying the binary gender structure that made your transition so difficult to insist on a heirarchy of legitimacy within the trans umbrella? Don't ALL people have the right to pursue happiness, regardless of how that fits within dominant social mores? Whether or not it is reasonable to demand that equality is not the point - major social change has never taken place without a small group of people demanding something thought by many to be unreasonable.

I have never changed my gender or ever jumped from gender to gender on a whim. All I did was continue in the gender society spent years trying to beat out of me, literally. And so what if I did, everyone has rights not just those that fit in pre determined boxes. Gender is a social construct currently and historically used as a justification of discrimination anyway. If you want to be a stepford wife bp fine but don't assume society will blissfully march along with you. This is a law that is being used to enforce dominant social beliefs on a smaller population within that society, not morally or legally supportable.

Hazumu Osaragi My post was in no way meant to out you to anyone as for my ssn yes its been changed as has every other document I've got including but not limited to my birth certificate house deed Drivers lic, school records all the way back to grade school. next as you your wanting to live in a world were a trans status doesn't matter yes that be great but not likely to ever happen people have been raised to believe as they do now for 200 years thats now likely to change anytime soon. The influences of religion in our country isn't going to every accept that were just normal people like everyone else so the cultural battle between our two camps will continue long after you and I are gone. The only thing you can do is find a place were you can be you and find a certain amount of acceptance and live your life trying to be happy just like everyone else.

Those that consider themselves non ops are in my opinion not gid to begin with they don;t have females brains or they would be unstoppable and driven to getting that thing off of them. The fact that they can live with it and some even use it for sexual enjoyment tells me their not suffering from any form of dsyphoria over their bodies.... they are instead living a fantasy. For those who complete transition accordantly and have surgery life can return to a fairly normal life and you won't have trouble with your id matching your presentation at an airport. For those who just wish to jump back and forth across the gender fence the constant trouble of ids not matching your presentation just goes with the territory. Sincerely Brandi Parker

I think the point of my original post has gotten lost so let me try to re make it. I known there are tons of people out there who feel its OK to jump from gender to gender on a whim without feeling the need to completing or really be one of the other I'm not one of them. I feel a diagnosis transsexual with GID sets one apart from those who would jump back and forth. That anyone thinking of jumping down the transitional rabbit hole should be committed to going all the way ...yes that means completing and including grs surgery. I remember what its like to live in two gender and I known it's no fun ans hard as hell..which makes me wonder why some would want to stay there permanently.

Brandi Parker said: "Hazumu Osaragi A stealth post op I am but a separatist not so much I live a very normal life no different then they do at Beale AFB in Marysville Ca. as for the fore mention crowd I'm not worried about them gaining power or finding me." And so, Brandi, you tried to out me? I did leave Beale's zipcode -- partly as bait. And you took it and outed me, as I suspected you might. What if I were to do the same to you? Have you covered up ALL your tracks? Did you get a new SSN? Or do you still have the same old pre-transition one? If so, somewhere, there is a mismatch -- somewhere your previous identity is attached to your SSN. Now, I'm already out at Beale, but strangely, I have functional stealth. Somehow, the people that know don't care, and the people that care don't know. I just want to live in a world where my trans status doesn't matter, or I have protection from those who would treat me badly because of it.

I think some of you are missing the point. It's not about being passable or not as the preferred gender. It's about how hard it is to GET documentation for the preferred gender; this is what makes life such a hardship. If you are physically and/or legally between genders (ALL trans persons pass thru this limbo space, at least for a time) you are not going to have full documents to back up who you say you are. So you are going to have to disclose being T like it or not. @Brandi, you act like its no big deal to carry around a letter explaining your GID diagnosist. As if the world suddenly becomes accepting and tolerant of transfolk as long as you have a doctor's note? HARDLY. If you are cisgender, you clearly have no idea of how legally and financially de-stabilizing this limbo is. If you are a stealth TS, then you have lost touch with your pre-legal roots. It ain't no party time on the fence. But it's alot easier to condescend than to empathize, isn't it

BP completely misses my point that people are gender variant in different forms. When I lived as a lesbian the christofacists' made my life hell. Changed my ID to male and it stopped, except when I don't pass. Now what do you think security will do when they look at my male ID and my male persona and then finds my mammaries during a pat down? Did you want to give me the ten grand it will probably take to get them off? ...They must charge by the pound... These are individuals that have shown they have no concern for the rights of others if they do not follow their beliefs gitmo, ect. not to mention the civil rights eroded due to panicked herd behavior that was whipped into a frenzy by the right. Look up the arrests from these new security rules what are these searches really good at finding? do you think that was an accident? Think critically it will save your life.

Hazumu Osaragi A stealth post op I am but a separatist not so much I live a very normal life no different then they do at Beale AFB in Marysville Ca. as for the fore mention crowd I'm not worried about them gaining power or finding me. I not only voted for Obama bit I also worked for him as a campaign coordinator and helped turn Va blue something that hadn't happened since 1969. I do believe we need health care and I'm working hard to push for it. As for your other comments your right in that I think the transgender crowd ie: cders transvestites,drag queens,and shemales dilute my condition and are constituently trying to grab hold of the gender Identity label hen they have no right to as their gender Identity is MALE their brains are MALE they do nothing but and muddy up the water so the general public can't understand the seriousness of this condition or the need for people with GID to transition. Sincerely Brandi Parker

What about people who are flying TO and FROM their transition? Penis on the way there, not penis on the way back? But you book a round-trip ticket? But you can't get a legal change until surgery is done? I'm driving to my surgery. Even if it does take two days to get there.