Let my people go!

12:49 am PST, Nov 3, Kristina Roivas, Canada
I never have agreed with, or bought into the transgender umbrella concept. Sorry if that sounds elitist or separatist. Which to the political types who are usually pushing an agenda of some type or another, may veiw it that way. I hate to break it to you, but its time to "close the umbrella" I am woman (granted my start in life differs from most women due to a type of birth defect which has now been coorected)

7:41 am PDT, Oct 16, Gennifer Glassman, Florida

5:28 pm PDT, Oct 15, Carole Hagen, Oregon

2:08 pm PDT, Oct 14, Dan King, Washington
I am a transsexual man; my fiancée is a transsexual woman. Neither one of us has ever belonged to the gay community! I am so filled with rage over these damn people that keep lumping us in with the gender queer freaks like: the porn star Buck Angel (man with a pussy) and Thomas Bettie (the pregnant man), the she-male porn stars, and many others who jump on the genderqueer trend wagon. They do nothing but cause further confusion and discrimination, violence/hate crimes and are the cause of losing (in some countries like Canada) and not being able to obtain (like here in the USA) health coverage for our condition. This is war to me; our right to exist and be treated with respect. I would be more than happy to take arms and go to the doorsteps of the big financial contributors of GLADD and pound on their door, grab them, drag them out into the street and shoot them. GLADD and the Christians, are our two biggest problems, however GLADD causes more harm than the damn Christians do, as a matter of fact... GLADD is mainly to blame for our problems with the Christians. Long ago we were accepted by these bigots, until they started lumping us in with the gays, whom they saw as a threat to their society. We are more heavily discriminated against than any other group, and GLADD does nothing but add to it! I am more than happy to cause them pain and suffering, for they do so to us

6:59 am PDT, Oct 13, Miss Francis Ryan, Canada
Years 1962/63 age 5 to 7 I was seen by two psychiatrists due to trouble in school- I wanted to be a girl. My provisional diagnosis 1983 was transsexualism in my initial assessment at Royal Ottawa Psychiatric Holpital, having been referred by family doctor for introverted schizoid problems with neurasthenic feminine mannerisms of transsexuality; in 1985 a discharge summary's final diagnosis presents personality disorder, gender dysfunction, transsexualism. Along the way was GID, over identification with my mother, gender dysphoria, suspected schizophrenia, border line morron IQ 113 test being interrupted and psychologist wanting to be paid by OHIP, dillusions- wanted to be a girl, thought dissorder because I did not meat criteria for schizophrenia, Parinoia- I only felt persicuted by doctors... 3 days a week for an hour per day. It cost $72000.00 1984to the provance of Ontario persuading me to like my penis during, supportive and explatory psychotherapy, where emotional conflict reacted against bigotry. My gender is female I want to be the best woman I can be; no longer regarded as introverted or schizoid posessing an extremely high pain threshold and tollerance, with life as a girl much improved, presumably a woman- but why bring sex into it; I am incomplete? The word transsexual disapears from my charts with DSM-IV 1992, GID remaining. Transsexual is pressantly subverted &woman is substituted. Transgenderd Ms men may not use Miss salutation in Nova Scotia... I insist upon "Miss". Transgenderd have addictive substitute Bupenorphin, LAAM, Suboxone, Methadone addictions along with seratonin and dopamine reuptake inhibitors to protect against streat drug cravings. I have never used streat drugs. Life's organizing principles are diametrically opposed between punativly transgenderd HARM reduction and we-hopefully transsexual. Transgenderd don't receive medication for addiction until after nullification inducement. Any neo-labia or vaginal cosmetic surgery will necrose do to dispeptyl vascular constriction preventing blood serum perfusion- Transgender file patiant name of labia reduction before any surgery prophisises necrosis- transgenderd will never have sex again- neovagina little-finger-sized is inadiquate... penis length-3 inches = max depth. Penatration requires attentive broad ligament navigation. Where is such a man? Transgenderd pubic hair follicles will grow upside down, creating mass or penatrate a ligament. because genital ellectrolysis will be rushed; lower dermis scraped like a hide by surgion, usually autorejected. 20% bladders will be punctured aproaching peritoneal reflection. Additional 30 minute vestibule scar surgery will double addictive Rx dose. Why do the drug addicted under 25 need bottom surgery to legitamize an addictive prescription. Neolabial skin graft may autoreject within 2 weeks attracting Oxycontin for severe pain. Tarsal bone shortning means Tylenol3 and no size 8 eee shoe sellection. Why not give transgenderd their less adictive streat drugs and not descriminate against transsexuals with the hoax that if you are transgenderd long enough you get to be transsexual _possably through further surgery auditioning for further opiate Rx. Neovaginal closure occures within 17 years; is 8 years of percoset to assist in moderate pain stent dilation with life long opiod addiction worth it? 100% of the Recto-Sigmoid in Halifax yields strong fecese smell and diaper 24/7. Should smell like Bayleaf/tappioka mouth texture with betadine & 15 pad changes per day for 6 months of mucus flow with nasal-discharge-remanicent gellatinous white or yellow lumps; no collostomy required. Membrane attracts any infection is not self cleaning. Transgenderd can aquire STD as easily after as before surgery and can get right into core. Surgical vanity lacks attentivness. Wheather under a Vital Statistics Act or Immagration Act an ammendment to sex identity is 1 or 2 certificate fraud lurring the presurgical transgenderd to submit control to a doctor. Taboos suggest sex identity should be protected with/gender identity enabled on primary documentation. Criteria asking are you female silhouette? Women are not transgenderd for drug addiction. Estrogen damages platlets clotting blood, injectables not being wholsaler-stocked. Spironolactone corrosive to cheeks, calcifies kidney, ineffective to Androcure which may harm 2 liver enzymes. Medroxyprogesterone may shrink genitals too small for surgery, but attendant pedophile court order may require respect as woman with limmited lifestyle. Bicalutamide should not be considerd with multiple streat drug interactions and certoralix I like would exagerate cravings. Finasterid and Dutasteride arn't of interrest since testosterone @ 3 ng/dl comperares to 3 month old baby girl. I have allways wanted to be a girl, hope you ace it to. I have never had a full time job, do not travel and am a second class citizen due to bigotries. Transgenderd age 10to25 , pay for nothing, some do buy extras. I pay the shot. Transgenderd are discouraged... from wearing silicone gelled external breast prosthesis on discomfort aspersions; with promise,"if only psychological approval for further work could be obtaind" I have approval for everything and am very picky. Canada's Senate Science& Technology Committees have been lied to, by doctors,please listen, TRANSGENDER DOES NOT CURE DRUG ADDICTION the longer you are on drugs the harder it is to get off them. Surgery is ludacris for an addicted personality. How addicted is it possable for a 15 year old to be given methadone Rx in Sydney N.S. for Cocain suspected addiction- he thinks about it all the time/ could go buy more. Methadone is substatute addiction discussed in Children in Adult Drug Rehab report to parliment last month. Subversion of TRANSSEXUAL with transwoman euphamism harms public intrest. Lies are diagnosed about transgenderd with allusions to archtypal transsexual. Contemplated 2012 DSM-V revision may limit GID GRS to gender dysphoria protecting addicted boys from being additionally burdend with transgender. If there is autogynophilla wich will be deemed peraphillia then regret is reasonably post surgically expected. Who will care for the transgenderd whose motivation is Rx in penis prejudicial HARM reduction with attendant social stigma and Dr admonishment," if you talk about this to any one I can't write any more Rx for you" - estrangment should be criminalised. Transgender extortion or Transsexual weedling, either way post surgical canoodling is viable; permanent hair remooval (laser or ellectrolysis) post voicebox surgery and cheek implantion are not possable. Use dermal fillers lip and cheek augmentation. 20 minutes and the most masculine face is trout pout archer bow with apples female... may take many treatments; face will take some 2 hrs ellectrolysis per week for 2 years possably 200 hours.

2:15 pm PDT, Oct 12, Cassie Lietz, Michigan
i don't involve my self much with this issue. but i do want to support it. i consider myself as just a woman. but in my reading i have seen where tg people try to force compliance with their view. thats wrong, its wrong no matter what group or what ever is invoved. transexuals Are women,and men! and should not have to comply with a Range of being

7:14 am PDT, Oct 12, Emily Shirley, Germany

7:33 pm PDT, Oct 6, Erica Nelson, New York

12:34 pm PDT, Oct 3, Julie Linder, Florida

10:39 pm PDT, Oct 1, Zoë Suzanna, California

8:21 am PDT, Sep 30, Name not displayed, Norway
Also manhood: Do not forget that ther is also men her.

6:21 am PDT, Sep 29, Clint Babula, Canada
All people deserve to be acknowledged in a respectful, accurate manner.

6:21 am PDT, Sep 29, Clint Babula, Canada
All people deserve to be acknowledged in a respectful, accurate manner.

9:33 am PDT, Sep 25, Nicola Cowie, United Kingdom
I am a woman. I always have been and I always will be. I am not changing my gender, that has been fixed and constant all my life. I am however correcting a physical defect in my body so that I can be whole - mind, body and soul.

9:17 am PDT, Sep 20, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin

8:42 am PDT, Sep 20, Name not displayed, California

12:27 pm PDT, Aug 30, Lisalee Starkman, Georgia
I pray the day comes quickly that transgender and transsexual are finally separated and that women of surgical history regain the respect and dignity they once had.

3:34 pm PDT, Aug 28, Noelle Cruz, California

8:55 pm PDT, Aug 26, Montserrat Azpillaga, California
I'm a woman of transsexual history who has already corrected her body through SAS. There has never been anything "transgender" about me, my gender idenity or my history.

6:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Christine Mullen, Washington

5:18 pm PDT, Aug 22, Christina-Xena White, California
I simply see myself as a "woman" in daily life, which is backed up by my personal identity, legal status, and my medical doctor, being I am a full-on post-op woman. The use of "transgender" is not any of the above, and has no legal status as a choice on legal identification. It's much more a politicial ploy, used to attempt to gain politicial power in order for individuals to gain vague "assumed rights" most often at the expense of those that truly have achieved full womanhood, in the promised land of full womanhood, carrying forth the analogy to it's logical conclusion. Transgenderism, or TGism, is at best the desert of no-gender land, where some, in fact many, choose to camp out and worship their golden TG calf, most often along with their GLB allies. The inclusion of TSs and intersex into their campground is nothing more than an attempt to use us as "cover" for whom they are, and oftentimes persuede a few "sell outs" TSs to act as front TGs publicly while hiding behind the curtain, like in the Wizard of Oz. When the curtain of fair analysis of status and lifestyles are revealed, like pulling back the deceptive curtains, the use of smoke and mirrors are revealed, and the false sense of commonality is nakedly exposed. What is most distrubing is that in effect such TGist activitiest try to pull us back from our promised land even after being reasonably presentable as our true gender, by applying the same non-legal gender/sex bars that are used by the far right wing haters, such as DNA tests, which any natal woman would not only reject, but dearly make one pay for such an false standard. The worse falsehood often promoted is that we should give up our deserved womanhood in order to "not leave any behind" when in fact they most often have no desire or intent to move forward into full womanhood. Using pity and "rare exceptions" to justify such efforts to demean us for claiming we made it into our womanhood, is like saying that "cancer survivers" should still claim to have cancer, in order to make cancer patients feel better, or get more favorable treatments, when in fact we often are willing to reach back and help pull true TS woman forwards into full womanhood. And instead they try to jerk us backwards into the desert we left behind. Today I am a full woman, and very presentable at that, and yet I am willing to in more semi-private setting, and groups, agree to being post-TS. But being TG today?...I say let me go!... and let my people go as well!

10:00 am PDT, Aug 9, Edith Pilkington, Rhode Island
I am not "transgender" and I am not "a transsexual" either. As a human being, if I am going to be categorized it should definitely be as woman. If anyone is going to "Analyze me, categorize me, finalize me, advertise me, select me, dissect me, inspect me or reject me" it should be as any other woman would be. The state where I live has already determined I am female. Let's not tempt anyone to move in a backwards direction on this by creating a third class which would inevitably have fewer rights than the other two.

10:18 pm PDT, Aug 4, Arlene Starr, New York
Reports of my death were almost accurate. I see little has changed in my absence.

9:42 am PDT, Aug 3, Pamela Sheely, Michigan
I am signing for my friend, Antonia Cambareri!

5:53 pm PDT, Aug 1, Antonia Cambareri, New York

6:28 am PDT, Jul 22, Janet Rosenberg, Ohio
A woman that was victimized in the Concentration Camps in Germany,was still considered to be a woman though she,as a young girl,had her ovaries removed and given radical surgery prior to her puberty. Yet she still was recognized as a woman. That young girl, was my sister. She and I both endured. She married,and was still accepted as a woman. The man that married her, knew of her plight, and did not admonish it. He embraced her. He loved her. We don't need a Congressional Amendment to determine what is considered man,and woman to marriage. It is the woman of today does not have to prove her femininity just by proving she could bear children,is not right! It is morally,ethically,socially wrong to define what is a true woman. Let those that are gender dysphoric be recognized as women. Those that are XXY, be recognized as women. Those that made sacrifices in their own personal lives to be seen by the public as women. We all are women,even when born, the first years determine the way we want to be treated later in life! So, you were not born a woman. But you live your life as the woman you know you should be recognized and socially accepted as such! Good for you!

8:57 am PDT, Jul 18, Samara Qz'Etax, Colorado

8:28 pm PDT, Jun 20, Jayme Ann Ca, Arizona

12:05 am PDT, Jun 20, Kaye Josephine Francesca Barrie, New Zealand

3:08 pm PDT, Jun 18, Name not displayed, Colombia

10:47 am PDT, Jun 18, Jennifer Daniels, California
As if we don't have enough challenges! Maybe one day we will see our legitimate medical needs addressed and queers will have equal rights for their lifestyle choices as well. But our needs are not the same. And if we continue to look as if we accept that we are just at the far end of thier "spectrum?" We will never receive the respect we deserve.

5:53 am PDT, Jun 18, Name not displayed, Canada

7:09 pm PDT, Jun 17, Valerie Laramee, Canada

6:52 pm PDT, Jun 17, Sophia Siedlberg, United Kingdom
I am sick of being "represented" by people who do not understand my expereinces in life, who do not understand my issues, who reduce my life to shallow stereotypes which don't even apply to me. I am not hostile to transgender people, I just feel like I have no say when people claiming to do good call me something I am not. Reducing people to a stereotype laden generalization and term is not helping diversity, but destroying it.

6:14 pm PDT, Jun 17, Gabrielle Bouchard, Canada
I've been waiting for such a petition for a long time. Thank you

5:56 pm PDT, Jun 17, Amy Allen, California

5:18 pm PDT, Jun 17, Joëlle Laramée, Canada
I have been saying this for years.

6:30 pm PDT, Jun 15, Tina Sokol, Texas

1:22 pm PDT, Jun 15, Sara Law, Washington D.C.
I've been reading blog after blog and I FINALLY get it! Sheesh, some girls are dense! Better late than never? I do not now nor have I ever seen myself as anything other than a woman. Surgery is complete. Problem solved. Do NOT lump me with the transgenderists. Not Ever!

1:59 am PDT, Jun 7, Mikael Scott Bjerkeli, Norway

6:59 pm PDT, May 16, Name not displayed, Connecticut
I wholehearted agree that Harry Benjamin Syndrome (the classic form of the word transsexual) should be completely removed from the TG umbrella. Because of the increased ambiguity, and abuse of the word "transsexual" done by the Transgendered Community, the true definition of the classic form of the word Transsexual has been so denigrated to the point that it no longer defines what was originally designated as it's meaning by Dr. Harry Benjamin. In respect to Dr. Benjamin's work, I dearly say that our petition should be honored.

3:55 pm PDT, May 16, Charlotte Goiar, Spain
Harry Benjamin's Syndrome (HBS) is an intersex condition developed in the early stages of pregnancy affecting the process of sexual differentiation between male and female. This happens when the brain develops as a certain sex but the rest of the body takes on the physical characteristics of the opposite sex. The difference between this and most other intersex conditions is that there is no apparent evidence until much later after the baby is born or even as late as adolescence. Genetic etiology for this condition has been proved by very recent medical research. Over 60 years of medical research regarding Transsexualism (modern HBS) specify that there is NO evidence whatsoever that any psychological or environmental factors cause Transsexualism-HBS. All of the medical research done to date indicates conclusively that physiological (neurological, genetic) factors are the sole cause of Transsexualism-HBS. Transsexualism (HBS) is now regarded by the world's leading experts in the field as another of the many biological variations that occur in human sexual formation -an intersex condition- where the sex indicated by the phenotype and genotype is opposite the morphological sex of the brain. People with the condition of transsexualism (HBS) are therefore born with both male and female characteristics and, like many others with atypical sexual development, seek rehabilitation of their phenotype and endocrinology to accord with their dominant sexual identity; an identity which is determined by the structure of the brain. Transsexualism (HBS) is about being a particular sex, not doing it. It is also about recognising gender norms, not challenging them. Therefore, Harry Benjamin's Syndrome should not be confused with transgenderism or transsexuality.

8:14 pm PDT, May 5, Name not displayed, Michigan
Western society isn't ready for people born as one sex, who have and desire to keep the anatomy of that sex, to be considered the opposite sex. Since the majority of transgender-identified people fall under that description, society at large tends to think of "transgender people" as people who are really one sex but try to appear as the other. Everything the transgender movement does seems to reinforce that perception, even though they say their goal is otherwise. Transsexual people want to be legally and socially accepted as the sex they are reassigned into, and I believe we were making some progress in that area until the transgender "umbrella" swallowed us all up. Thanks in large part to the umbrella, a transsexual woman is more likely today to be thought of as a feminised man if her past becomes known, and a transsexual man is more likely to be thought of as a very butch woman on testosterone. I believe the transgender movement is no longer any kind of ally to people who have decisively rejected their original sex of assignment (whether transsexual or physically intersexed or both) and I wholeheartedly support taking us out once and for all from under the transgender umbrella.

7:34 am PDT, May 2, Rachel Gilmour, Florida
Time and time again, I hear that people equate "transgender" with a a gay person wanting a same sex relationship. That it's all about "sex".

7:14 pm PDT, Apr 30, Phyllis Austin, Washington
Thanks to the "transgender" political advocates, transsexuals, (Harry Benjamin Syndrome) lose status, a condition with respect to circumstances. Transgender and transsexual ( Harry Benjamin Syndrome ) are not even close to being the same thing but the "transgender political movement" ignorantly would have you believe they are, and they adulterate common sense, logic, and understanding with their political ploy to cater legislation for their own folly. I have always said and it is a fact, "there is a great gulf between those who want and need that between their legs removed and those who only want to dress up as female but "they practice life as males". They are nothing more than males in all ways but their little hobby of putting on feminine attire to parade before one another in devious pompous manners in their secret annals with the sole intent to invade the sanctity of the female in an attempt to equate their selves as the opposite sex. An attempt and an almost successful one, not to gain equality, but bring into their possession the last respite reserved for women, to appease themselves some notion they are not of any difference, pulling down femininity to a level perceived only in their minds. I am happy to see people waking up, but to the detriment to the transsexual ( Harry Benjamin Syndrome ) unfortunately, but maybe not, with New York requiring a regimen of hormones, life experience of living full time as female and required to have a licensed therapist for the tenure. Yes, let them pay what I have to pay, not only monetary but that price of loss of manhood, that status in society and suffer that stigma by the fraternity of males and many women too. We transsexuals who are “out”, living our lives honestly and openly as women and have suffered the onslaught for many, many years the discriminations that those who live in secret do not. Yes, let them pay that price and the price of a gender therapist’s sessions from one to fours years or more, the cost of HRT (hormone replacement treatment) and required to live and work as female in real life experience for one to two years. Then they may be equal to what I am, a transsexual, not a transgender. If they talk the talk, let them walk the walk, which transsexuals with HBS do. These requirements will weed out all those self described “gender benders” and “fetish freaks” who wish to fall under the “transgender umbrella”, the "Transgender Merry-Go-Round. These above mentioned requirements are supported by mental health practitioners and the Harry Benjamin Standards. ( http://shb-info.org/hbs.html ) Let us support these requirements and separate ourselves from these foolish men, who also are invading us, the transsexual community, women who live as women, those of us who are compelled to express themselves in all manners and all activities as a female, from the female mind that abodes within, diagnosed as “Harry Benjamin Syndrome”. My concern is for the protection of transsexuals better known as "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" and our reputation in society. I do wish to distance myself from the all-inclusive terminology “transgender” for the reason, it does not support those women who transition their lives to live as who they are, women. I hope this letter will in some way will aid in our defense and help you find a benchmark of requirements with correct terminology in your struggles to maintain decency and protection from an onslaught of self described "gender benders" and "fetish freaks", who have their playgrounds, but is not of living as women in society Please hear our concerns, as they are not the same as the Transgender's Merry-Go-Round, where anyone can get on or off at will as they please, but live their lives men.

4:18 pm PDT, Apr 19, Angie S, United Kingdom
I think that TS women are just women with a genital defect, who after fixing the defect are just women and not TG in any way; they are just what they have always been.

5:43 am PDT, Mar 20, Name not displayed, California
I wish for the day when classic transsexuals will be free from any transgender BS.