"We are One"
GCS, GRS, SRS, FFS, AFL-CIO... ah, yeah...
Whew! Semantics!
I'm trying to schedule "Bottom" surgery with Dr. Z in June of next year... to me "Bottom" surgery means a butt lift, thigh fat-graft enhancement, and hip fat-graft enhancement... hopefully 40in. around... a good US size 14 at the hips... at least I hope that's what I'm going to get. This reverse pear shape I can do without. With a couple of ribs removed in 2013 and wearing my leather corset, I'll approach that perverbial hour glass shape.
GCS, GRS, SRS, FFS, AFL-CIO, my goodness!... What acronims! Here I'm trying to just survive as a women and I now have to worry about how everyone defines what I've personally done to my body (surgically or not) to put me into some sort of classification.
Nah, I don't think so.
What is or is not between my legs is my affair. Alone. Just as what is or is not between the legs of others is their affair. Alone. I've decided what terminology I will use to describe myself. I am not going to push anything on anyone else; I have trouble running my own life, I'll be d-mned if I try to run someone else's. My guiding principle in everything I do is..."to pass is not the thing.... to pass is EVERYTHING"... affecting employment, living conditions, whether you get the h--- beat out of you or are killed, or whether you are accepted in the so much larger human community by other people.
Sincerely, from the real world,
Angelique'
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Comment by Rachel King on December 11, 2011 at 6:53am -
Agree with both you and Suelle.
See my comment on your first blog and I hope it reads well enough to make sense to someone.
Semantics are one thing, they involve our community.
Terminology is how the wider public see us and it IS important.
Show me someone who doesn't care how they are thought of and I'll show you a fool, who will never make it to her.
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Comment by Marsha M. Marsha on December 11, 2011 at 8:16am -
I blogged about this acronym nonsense before and I have gotten to a point that I call it GCS but some take exception ( see Chloe's blog "GCS is an Umbrella term...") but if someone has a problem with it I will ask, "OK, what would you prefer to call it?" I get a bit tired of precious people. Sheesh, develope a rhino skin, kids, or you won't last.
Angelique, I understand I am grouped with a classification of people who are ignominiously castigated, so I have learned the best way to counteract erroneous defamation is to live my life contrary to the stereotypes. Being part of the marginalization will cause me some difficullty, no doubt, but if I live my life in a way that others can applaude I redefine our community one person at a time. I read somewhere that a good name is more precious than rubies.
Finally, what's between my legs is no one's business but my own and it does not define my gender.
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Comment by Caroline Grace on December 11, 2011 at 12:46pm
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I agree with all the people who have commented below, And I agree with much of what is written above...
Passing does make it far easier... gives you far greater freedoms, etc. I pass most times these days. However, I also know passing should not be a criteria for expressing your true self... at 5' 14" I know that physical challenges that some can confront. I also know that not everyone TG can afford financially or health wise to undergo massive amounts of medical treatments. Therefore, I am working to help those who don't pass be included in everything -from social outings to laws, too.
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