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JenniferFlusher

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Mar 14, 2010, 6:26:52 PM3/14/10
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Howard Thomas Usher, also known on the internet as Jennifer Usher, likes to
pretend that he is a person who underwent a sex change in 2006.  

This post will prove that Howard almost certainly never had sex change
surgery and give the reasons why. Howard has been known as "Jennifer
Usher" since 2000 on the internets. Prior to that he used dozens of
aliases , most of them male, and posted pieces of transvestite fetish
fiction online

Howard Thomas Usher came to San Francisco in 2004. He was homeless and
spent time in a variety of homeless shelters and homeless programs
sponsored by the City of San Francisco. Howard was eventually settled
into the Mission Hotel (on So. Van Ness) , a Single Room Occupancy
facility run by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Howard remains in this
facility to this day (2010) .

More information on the facility where Howard lives can be found here:

http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-10-10/news/the-vice-hotel/

http://missionlocal.org/2010/01/women-seek-stability-in-sros/

Howard was given, in 2005, a clerical workfare job at UCSF with a
group that monitors sexual transmitted diseases in GLBT populace. The
group Howard was assigned to monitored the transgendered populace.

Howard maintains that he became eligible for UCSF benefits and,
through Kaiser Permanents , received a sex change in 2006.

There are a few things wrong with this story:

1. A google search reveals that NO one else has ever claimed to have
received a sex change from Kaiser Permanente - a notoriously cost
conscious HMO. If Kaiser had started handing out gender changes one
would see a great many posts on the various transgender boards letting
others know of this . To date only Howard claims to have received a
sex change from them.

2. Howard is morbidly obese. Here is his picture:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jenniferrusherr/AllAboutMe#5250861530829948002

Howard is roughly six feet tall so to get a paunch like that one would
have to be close to 300 pounds - if not more. The problem is that
surgeons in the U.S. do not do gender change on morbidly obese people
for safety reasons. One only has to google google this to see the
truth of it.

3. Howard has been making less than 25,000 a year since 2005. Prior to
that he made no money at all and lived with a variety of male lovers
until 2000. Prior to that he was unemployed while his wife worked as a
nurse. No insurance covers all the other associated costs of SRS such
as electrolysis and psychological counseling - usually biweekly for a
year (at a minimum). Could a man living in a homeless shelter making a
take home of about $1100 a month (after his subsidized rent costs are
deducted) , living in one of the costliest cities in the U.S. and who
has to eat out all the time because his room does not have a
kitchen.... could such a person likely afford the 300- 500 a month
ancillary costs preceding surgery?

4. Howard claims that Kaiser gave him his sex change after only one
year . How likely is it that a U.S. HMPO would authorize sex change
surgery for a person living in a homeless shelter, who is over 50, who
has a spotty/sporadic record of employment AND is morbidly obese - how
likely is it that such an HMO would approve SRS after only one year for
such a person where most others wait 18 months to 2 years or more?

5. Who took care of Howard Thomas while he was recovering from his

fictional surgery?  Howard lives in a SINGLE ROOM assisted facility

with NO kitchen and NO individual bathroom.  How did he get his meals?
  
How did he make it down the hall for 2 weeks to the communal
 bathroom 
stalls?  Howard had no friends or contacts in SF at the time
to take 
care of him.  How did he possibly eat or get to the bathroom
during his 
first week out of the hospital?
All the baove leads to the obvious conclusion, that Howard Thomas usher
is lying about his sex change surgery just as he lied about being in
nursing school and just as he lied about NOT being in a homeless
shelter (ask him).
His protestations against transgendered people are merely the product

of a very troubled mind rallying against the truth of his own horrid

situation.  
Howard Thomas Usher never had sex change surgery and is still a

mentally troubled man living in a SRO assisted housing facility.

Ruby

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Mar 15, 2010, 6:01:26 PM3/15/10
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JenniferFlusher wrote:
> Howard Thomas Usher, also known on the internet as Jennifer Usher,
> likes to pretend that he is a person who underwent a sex change in
> 2006.

You are so obsessed with this Jennifer person, Diane. Perhaps you need to
exercise that obsession to keep yourself halfway sane? Are you posting from
the library again or did you manage to get yourself another laptop? I know
that the last thing to go was always your laptop when you were down and out
and having trouble borrowing money. How many did you sell for half their
value so you could eat and get a flop house to stay in for a few days?
You're in your 50s now. That's getting kind of old to be on the street. :)

Ruby


fluffybunnie

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:37:08 PM3/15/10
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On 2010-03-15, Howie <ru...@qwest.net> wrote in Message-ID:
hnmana$en7$1...@news.eternal-september.org

>
> You are so obsessed with this Jennifer person, Diane. Perhaps you need to
> exercise that obsession to keep yourself halfway sane? Are you posting from
> the library again or did you manage to get yourself another laptop? I know
> that the last thing to go was always your laptop when you were down and out
> and having trouble borrowing money. How many did you sell for half their
> value so you could eat and get a flop house to stay in for a few days?
> You're in your 50s now. That's getting kind of old to be on the street. :)
>

No-one is fooled by your eternal-september/motzarella account, Howie.

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JenniferFlusher

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:47:31 PM3/15/10
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On 2010-03-15 17:37:08 -0700, fluffybunnie <fluffy...@127.0.0.1> said:

> No-one is fooled by your eternal-september/motzarella account, Howie.

No one's fooled by his fake sex change either :)


Jennifer Usher

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Mar 15, 2010, 11:27:49 PM3/15/10
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"Ruby" <ru...@qwest.net> wrote in message
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Yes, Lask is quite obsessed. He ignores facts in order to create a
mythology about me that allows him to think his situation is not as bad as
it really is. My situation is not perfect, but it is stable. That is one
reason I live where I do. Sure, I could spend more of my money on housing,
but I would be taking the risk of having a somewhat less stable situation.
In the current economy, that would not be wise.

And, of course, when Lask was carrying on about Blake, things were no better
then. Lask had to demonize Blake to make himself feel better. Then Blake
went away, and Lask had to find others to attack. I think, in a bizarre
sort of way, his obsession is his last grasp on sanity. Without an enemy,
he would have to face his reality, and then he would lose what little shred
of sanity he has left. It is kind of sad.

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Jennifer Usher

JenniferFlusher

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Mar 15, 2010, 11:52:13 PM3/15/10
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On 2010-03-15 20:27:49 -0700, "Jennifer Usher" <jenni...@gmail.com> said:

> I think, in a bizarre sort of way, his obsession is his last grasp on
> sanity. Without an enemy, he would have to face his reality, and then
> he would lose what little shred of sanity he has left. It is kind of
> sad.

Howard,
How does a morbidly obese man obtain permission for SRS in the U.S?
Here's what Google has to say about that:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=kIO&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=obese+srs+transexual&btnG=Search

How

is it that Kaiser only appears to have preformed a sex change surgery
on YOU (and no one else). Here's what Google says about that:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=6IO&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Kaiser+srs+transexual&btnG=Search

That's

right, Howard. TONS of links saying that Kaiser will not cover the
surgery but not a single ONE that says they got it from them. Only
you and your story Howard. Can you provide us with perhaps ONE SINGLE
other sould who obtained sex change surgery through Kaiser?

And how is it that a man living in a homeless shelter , in his 50's
gets approved for sex change surgery after only ONE year's wait?

So what are we to believe Howard? That only YOU, a 50 year morbidly
obese man living in a homeless housing project obtained sex change
surgery from this company after only one year? Or should we believe
that you are a pathological liar?

What is most likely?

Willow

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Mar 16, 2010, 4:01:22 AM3/16/10
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Too funny - and the information on Kaiser is rather telling...

Of course, Usher's story is that he left a "dean's list" future career
in nursing to take the job of clerk only to get SRS via insurance.
That was the tale, was it not? Leaving a short year or so before
"graduation" to grab this one chance of SRS with no-name in SF. Now,
how logical is it to give up a well paid and in-demand career to get a
clerking job part time? Especially when one is doing so well, on the
dean's list and all. Of course, one wants to retain the privilege of
living cheaply in the Mission Hotel rather than having a career that
gets you out of the slum. Even if true, it shows a rather strange
decision making process...

W.

Jennifer Usher

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Mar 16, 2010, 8:50:25 AM3/16/10
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"Willow" <walittl...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Once again, Willy Boy shows that he remains a complete moron. Let's recap a
few facts, as opposed to his rather imaginative spin. I took three courses
in the LVN program at City College that one was allowed to take without
formal admission to the program. I also took a course in medical
terminology. Since I earned three A's and one B, I made the Dean's List.
Unfortunately, because of state law, admission to a community college
nursing program is by lottery, not merit. I did not "win" a position and
after then next semester, I took the summer off and volunteered at a program
at UCSF. I had to do something at that time because of the program that was
paying for me to go to school required you to either be in school, or doing
some sort of "workfare." I was nowhere near a "short year or so before
graduation." At the end of the summer I applied for a job with that
program, and while I did not get that job, the person in charge found
funding to hire me. Yes, a major motivation was to have insurance coverage
for my SRS. Ironically, at that time, I had no idea who would be doing the
surgery. I also was happy to trade waiting for an uncertain slot in a
lottery for a real paycheck. Now, I realize that Willy Boy would not
understand the drive to have surgery for a person who is actually a
transsexual, but that is another discussion.

I officially went on the payroll at the end of October in 2004. The benefit
began a bit less than a year later, in July of the next year. It took
another few months for Kaiser to work out the details. I was already seeing
a therapist before I started with UCSF, and she passed on my case to my new
therapist at Kaiser. As soon as the procedure was in place, I was approved
for surgery. They contracted with the surgeon who had replaced Donald Laub
at the Stanford Program to train their own surgeon. That November, I met
with her at her office, and she said it would be early the next year when
the program would start. That January I met her, and the Kaiser surgeon,
and they began the process of scheduling my surgery for February. I was
approved by my primary care provider, and I had my surgery, the first person
at Kaiser, and apparently the first MTF in the University of California
system. Of course, I don't know that for sure. Another person from my
department had her surgery a few months later, and I know of one city
employee who also had surgery at Kaiser. Beyond that, I don't know how many
have been done. One thing that has been observed is that even when it is
virtually free, few take advantage of the coverage. Most, even those who
claim to be surgery tracked, are really, in effect, non-ops.

Now, Willy Boy likes to imagine me living in the "slum." No, I live in the
Mission. Next door, there are some rather nice condos. San Francisco is
not like most cities, where things are sharply divided. Even in the dreaded
Tenderloin, there are some very upscale restaurants among the down and out.
The Mission Hotel is a cheap place to live. It is not as bad as Willy Boy
makes it out to be. It provides me with decent, stable housing. I could
pay twice as much or more for very little extra. Why should I? To impress
the idiots here? Now, that would be "too funny."

The bottom line...I am self-supporting. I work for a living, and I give
back to the community. Willy Boy is a leech. He claims to be unable to
work (though he apparently does work under the table) and is supported by
the Canadian government and the woman he sponges off of. He contributes
nothing, save hot air and ignorance. His life is a bad joke, and he, like
"Diane Lask," desperate need to create a mythology about me to feel better
about their own mistakes. The silliness that they dream up is downright
hilarious. Lask is really losing his touch. And Willy Boy's desperation
shows in his rants about "no name" surgeons. In another words, I didn't go
to one of the hacks that cranks out patients like an assembly line, favoring
quantity over quality. Simply put, I have excellent results, and had no
complications. So what if it was not someone Willy Boy would consider a
"name brand"...like K-Mart, or McDonald's.

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JenniferFlusher

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Mar 16, 2010, 10:13:47 AM3/16/10
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On 2010-03-16 05:50:25 -0700, Howard Thomas Usher aka "Jennifer Usher"
<jenni...@gmail.com> said:
> I was approved by my primary care provider, and I had my surgery, the
> first person at Kaiser, and apparently the first MTF in the University
> of California system.

You pathetic fucking wannabe.
So YOU were the ONLY person - the very FIRST person that Kaiser
Permenante healthcare chose to have SRS?? A man in his 50's living in
homeless assisted housing?? You fucking mental case.

Oh and PLUS - YOU are the ONLY trans person ever to use University of
California health care insurance for SRS in the biggest GLBT mecca in
the entire fucking US working for an employer (UC) that employs tens of
thousands of people accross the State? You can't name even a single
person other than yourself who ever did this?

You pathetic homeless freak - your story is blatantly and
transparently false. Thanks for pointing that out in your own words.
YOU were the first. YOU were the only.

Fucking idiot.


> Of course, I don't know that for sure. Another person from my
> department had her surgery a few months later, and I know of one city
> employee who also had surgery at Kaiser.

Really? Who? Names or it doesn't exist.
If she's in your department then she is completely out and won't mind
posting here and confirming what you say.

Howard, you're a fucking lying wannabe. All of us (yeah me too) have
nice jobs, nice friends and/or family and nice places to live. YOU are
a pathetic internet posting freak living in homeless assisted housing
by himself pathetically pretending to be a woman.

All of us here , Barbie, Willow, Bunnie myself have some pretty
divergent views regarding things trans - but ALL of us feel utterly
repulsed by you.

Pathetic man.

Ruby

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Mar 16, 2010, 3:53:22 PM3/16/10
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> All of us here , Barbie, Willow, Bunnie myself have some pretty
> divergent views regarding things trans - but ALL of us feel utterly
> repulsed by you.

You fit in perfectly with the three of them, Diane. :)

Ruby


No Name Today

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Mar 16, 2010, 8:09:00 PM3/16/10
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Will the real Diane Lask stand up please?

Usher

This story keeps getting better and better. In the real world the girls
generally talk about who is good at doing surgery etc. I have never seen you
once say who did your surgery. Usually when someone gets the surgery done
they shout from the rooftops espc when its successful. I have just had a
friend get her surgery done in the new year in Thailand and she cant praise
the Dr enough. I wouldnt like someone potentially butchering me because
they have no experience I would much rather have the McDonalds of the SRS
world than be someones experiment. The experiments ended years ago with the
pioneers, its why word of mouth is so important.

Who is this surgeon and why are you so scared to reveal is it because its
all a dream?

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

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JenniferFlusher

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On 2010-03-16 17:09:00 -0700, "No Name Today" <para...@ass.usenet> said:

> Who is this surgeon and why are you so scared to reveal is it because
> its all a dream?

Usher has already claimed that his mythical surgeon was someone named
Annette Cholon - an MD who conveniently retired her practice in 2006 so
this can not be confirmed.

The possibility that Usher was the only person ever to obtain Kaiser
HMO payment for his mythical SRS whlile no one else apparently has -
well that's just nonsense.

Homeless men who live in homeless shelters on can't afford the costs of
changing gender. Anyone who actually had SRS know this.

Morbidly obese men do not get approved for SRS either in the U.S
(extremely rarely actually ).

Howard claimed that he went to a hospital in 2006 that did not have
internet access. That's SO unlikely. His mythical surgeon was
associated with Stanford Hospital - yet Usher claims he had the surgery
in San Francisco. Other patients of Dr. Cholon claim to have had the
surgery in Palo Alto - Stanford.

Even though Usher was on speaking terms with Bunnie at the time and had
met her personally - the only "confirmation" of his mythical surgery
and teh only person Usher let "call the hospital" was some man from
Boston who posted here and then was never seen again.

Usher is the worst kind of wanna-be. The worst kind of self hating
mental case. A conservative self-loathing Christo-fachist who hated
his own gayness so much he manufactured a disease and a "cure".

The truth is he remains a cross dressing homeless fat man living in the
Mission Hotel.
Spread the word.
Usher is not a post-op. Never was.

Jennifer Usher

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Mar 16, 2010, 10:21:27 PM3/16/10
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"Ruby" <ru...@qwest.net> wrote in message

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I assume that Lask was aiming that bit of drivel at me. Lask just refuses
to accept that he, along with his friends, are in my kill file. I don't see
his messages, Goat Boy's, or those of Scary Gary and person who calls
himself "Ballcrusher." I should kill file the empty headed faux woman, but
I do rather enjoy his pathetic attempts to make his pitiful website sound
like a major success.

I mean really, does he remotely think I am going to be the least bit
disturbed by the fact that he, and his three fellow stooges, are "repulsed"
by me? I would be more upset if the opposite were true. I mean, a mentally
disturbed man like Lask, a bad joke like Willy Boy, and two avowed non-ops?
That they don't care for me is supposed to bother me? If anything, this
gives me a good laugh.

As far as Lask's silliness about my surgery, so what? He can deny it all he
wants, and make all the arguments he can dream up in his warped little mind,
but it does not change one simple little fact. I am a complete woman. If
he convinces everyone of gang of stooges that their little fantasy is really
true, it won't change reality. What they don't seem to grasp, and that they
can't grasp this says a lot about them, is that I didn't have surgery to
impress anyone, or to gain some bit of status, or to have something to brag
about, or any of the other silliness that seem to think this is all about.
I had surgery for me, and no one else. I had to correct a birth defect that
I was simply tired of living with. I realize that is lost on them, but hey,
as I said, that says a lot about them.

Yes, they all have divergent views about "things trans," because that is
what they will always be, "trans." That is how their lives will be defined,
as "trans." Never as women, but as "trans." Just like Diane Lask's lost
love, Lyell Blake. Two of a kind.

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Jennifer Usher

JenniferFlusher

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Mar 16, 2010, 10:34:35 PM3/16/10
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On 2010-03-16 19:21:27 -0700, Howard Thomas Usher aka "Jennifer Usher"
<jenni...@gmail.com> said:

> I had surgery for me, and no one else.

No, Howard you never had SRS.
There is a reason why a man who has a history of posting over 60,000
newsgroup messages never posted a single one from his hospital. What
do you think that reason is?

There is a reason why a man who claims to be in the hospital never once
had anyone local call his hospital - or called anyone from his hospital
bed. Even though he knew of and was friendly with one

There is a reason why there is not one single claim (except yours) can
be found on the internet of Kaiser ever covering SRS.

The reasons for ll these things , and a lot more, is that you are
mentally ill and a habitual liar.

You can never be what Willow is and you can never have what she has.
Never. I think that's why you hate her so much. She achieved. You
just lie.


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