this week @ transboutique # 5
Barbie
# 5
Last week we completed our first month of operation, with pages viewed
increasing every week. We are now averaging over 50 unique visitors every
day. Thank you all for your support.
Also, we've introduced a new tool to help people pick gender-appropriate
names, and you can follow us on twitter.
This is just a partial list of what is being discussed by users this past
week at transboutique.com - why not stop by?
News for February 5th, 2010
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100205130224370
Openness on university campus. Politicians vs the Pope, Comedian Eddie
Izzard and cross-dressing, Pastors suing the government over ban on hate
speech against GLBTpeople, transgenders in court to fight ban, a drag show
benefit for the developmentally disabled, LDS church convinces politician to
support anti-discrimination legislation, and more. - all in a new,
friendlier format!
Breaking the news - how to tell someone you're trans ...
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100204195718447
At some point, transsexuals who are thinking of "making a change" have to
decide to either drop their current work and social contacts, or divulge
their status and their plans to others. It would be a serious understatement
to say this is presents challenges.
Thousands of Saints Fans parade in dresses from the Superdome to the French
Quarter
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100205093811301
Buddy Diliberto, a rather colorful local sportscaster who passed on in 2005
and who had a wide and loyal following once made a promise: that if the
Saints ever made it to the Superbowl, he would second-line (parade, in "Yat-
speak") from the Superdome to the French Quarter in a dress.
News for February 4th 2010
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100204183033878
Today's news includes such tidbits as Britney Spears cross-dresser in court
for scaring children . Also, more stories about both the tax-deductibility
of gender reassignment surgery and the way this woman's story makes the case
for the need for such surgery.
What's in a name - and how to pick a new one
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100204045206721
Transsexuals, transgendered, cross-dressers, and anyone else exploring
living either part-time or full-time as someone other than their birth sex
have the opportunity to pick their own names. It's a mixed blessing.
News for February 3rd 2010
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100203144339533
TS/TV/CD/GLB News around the world for today.
More than 60 stories, including
Beauty pageant inspires India's transgenders ,
Pakistan eunuchs face life full of struggles ,
Understanding the challenge of being a transsexual
A meeting! - willow's blog
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100203103030446
So, with our renovations still not completed, it was off to the local
lumberyard for some supplies...
New feature - Latest links - links
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100202232928588
Remember, you can submit a link, and browse the current list of links (which
includes a short text description of the material linked to), just by
clicking on "Links" at the top of the page.
Toilets in the news again - legal
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100202201554748
It's 2010 and we're still arguing about which toilet to use. It's being
reported that a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in England is being banned
from using the womens' washrooms in a pub after 3 years of doing so with the
full knowledge of the staff.
Gender wars in U.K. - transsexualism
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100131202047874
I have corresponded with those who are generally assumed to b e haters of
TS, from Janice Raymond to Bernice Hausmann. Neither of them, nor several
others that come to mind, are as blackhearted as they are made out to be in
popular TS circles. They do have different views form us, but that is no
reason to stop civil discourse, in my opinion.
Bad reporting - or accurate story? - transgenderism
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100131181548787
A town taken over by transsexual hookers. Now, that is a story! Predictably,
the first opinion posted to the story is an attempt to "set the record
straight":
The politics of power and Gender Identity Disorder - transsexulism
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100130123434756
his has nothing to do about the current positions of politicians or
political parties. It's an overview of the politics involved in the medical,
social and political spheres when it comes to dealing with the issue of
treating gender identity disorders and transsexuality.
About TransBoutique: transboutique.com is a transgender/transsexual support
forum that is also dedicated to educating the general public on issues
regarding gender roles and identities, to supportive discussions of people
who find they don't fit in the "binary gender model", as well as a place
where their friends, family, co-workers, teachers, parents, spouses, and
children and ask questions and hopefully find a few answers.
transboutique.com is powered by your story submissions and comments.
Ruby
Jennifer Usher
news:hkhr52$hon$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
Yes, that pretty much sums it all up. I did get a kick out of the empty
headed faux woman's claim to have "developed" a tool to help people choose
their name. The development consists of cutting and pasting information
from the Social Security baby names site. And even that is not a very
original idea. There has been a link on TS Roadmap for years, ever since I
told Andrea James about it.
http://www.tsroadmap.com/reality/nameindex.html
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
So, not much of an accomplishment.
The main thing that this site has turned into is an ego trip for a couple of
boy who like to pretend to be women. One claims to have made some great
discovery (I noticed that no credit is given to the source that the
information was copied from) and the other is making silly claims about
being "oh so passable," when anyone who has seen his photos know that just
ain't so.
--
Jennifer Usher
Barbie
Jennifer Usher wrote:
> Yes, that pretty much sums it all up. I did get a kick out of the empty
> headed faux woman's claim to have "developed" a tool to help people choose
> their name. The development consists of cutting and pasting information
> from the Social Security baby names site. And even that is not a very
> original idea. There has been a link on TS Roadmap for years, ever since
> I told Andrea James about it.
First, it's obvious that you have used the site as recently as yesterday,
because that's when I put it on-line. Your jealousy at what we're doing is
obvious.
On the subject of using the SS info, I mentioned the technique more than
half a decade ago when I first came up with the idea. I wouldn't be
surprised if others have had the same idea back in the 80s or even earlier.
However, unlike the SS names list, mine is also arranged alphabetically by
gender in each year, while theirs is not, and it's broken down into easy-to-
navigate pages, both are a big help for people looking to keep the same
first initials - this is explained in the associated article.
BTW - the SS list of names itself is in the public domain and not subject to
either a copyright or attribution requirement. Their method of presentation
IS subject to copyright. Both my method of arrangement and presentation are
different, and also covered by copyright. And as they used to say on TV -
"BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!"
I will be internationalizing the list as time goes on - just like I don't
discriminate based on gender status, I also don't discriminate based on
language or ethnicity. Transboutique.com is for everyone -
trans/cd/friends/family/co-workers/curious, etc., can all contribute
equally. Well, almost everyone except for those who, like you, have shown
themselves time and again to be intolerant, abusive liars.
As for the rest of your comments, nobody cares. You can go back to playing
with your sock-puppet and pretending that you don't use the site until next
weekend, when I or someone else posts edition # 6.
For everyone else - thanks for stopping by transboutique.com, and have a
nice weekend.
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Barbie
> because that's when I put it on-line. Your jealousy at what we're doing is
> obvious.
Just to clarify - I'm referring to the name-picker when I say I put it on-
line yesterday, not the whole site.
Jennifer Usher
"Barbie" <bar...@transboutique.com> wrote in message
news:hkirv9$nrd$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
> Just to set the record straight ...
>
> Jennifer Usher wrote:
>
>> Yes, that pretty much sums it all up. I did get a kick out of the empty
>> headed faux woman's claim to have "developed" a tool to help people
>> choose
>> their name. The development consists of cutting and pasting information
>> from the Social Security baby names site. And even that is not a very
>> original idea. There has been a link on TS Roadmap for years, ever since
>> I told Andrea James about it.
>
> First, it's obvious that you have used the site as recently as yesterday,
> because that's when I put it on-line. Your jealousy at what we're doing is
> obvious.
Oh, I have an occasional peek to see what the boys are up to. Reading Willy
Boy's silliness has given me more than a few laughs. It is so obvious that
he is desperate to convince people that he is actually accepted as a woman
that he will go to no end of lying. He used to do this in alt.support.srs
until it became obvious that no one believed him. I mean, really...he long
ago let it slip that he is well known in his community as the village
trannie. He also let it slip that he uses the law to force people to
"accept" him as a woman. For him to claim that, in a discussion with
someone about transgender people, or with a lesbian, that he is not
"clocked" is just plain silly.
> On the subject of using the SS info, I mentioned the technique more than
> half a decade ago when I first came up with the idea. I wouldn't be
> surprised if others have had the same idea back in the 80s or even
> earlier.
Oh yes, that would be interesting since the information would not have been
widely available in the 1980s. Especially given there was no Internet then,
let along web sites. And it was about five years or so ago that I suggested
the idea to Andrea James.
> However, unlike the SS names list, mine is also arranged alphabetically by
> gender in each year, while theirs is not, and it's broken down into
> easy-to-
> navigate pages, both are a big help for people looking to keep the same
> first initials - this is explained in the associated article.
ROTFL! Now this is just plain desperate. The information on the SS site
(obviously I was right about the source) is very well organized, and you can
look up names by both year, and by individual name. Granted, the
information on the SS site is not broken down into "pages." It is pretty
much presented as one page.
> BTW - the SS list of names itself is in the public domain and not subject
> to
> either a copyright or attribution requirement. Their method of
> presentation
> IS subject to copyright. Both my method of arrangement and presentation
> are
> different, and also covered by copyright. And as they used to say on TV -
> "BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!"
And here is the really good part. He pretty much admits he did exactly what
I said he did. He took something that is publically available, and instead
of simply pointing to it, he tries to imply that he has created the
information out of thin air. As I said, the whole web site is just a ego
trip for a couple of men pretending to be women.
> I will be internationalizing the list as time goes on - just like I don't
> discriminate based on gender status, I also don't discriminate based on
> language or ethnicity. Transboutique.com is for everyone -
> trans/cd/friends/family/co-workers/curious, etc., can all contribute
> equally. Well, almost everyone except for those who, like you, have shown
> themselves time and again to be intolerant, abusive liars.
ROTFL! Oh, I admit, "Tranboutique" is definitely not for me, or any other
woman. It is just another typical transgender website. It is of no real
value to anyone seriously looking to correct their body and get on with
their life. Now, if they are interested in clinging to their manhood, and
becoming a "trannie," then yes, Transboutique is a place for them.
> As for the rest of your comments, nobody cares. You can go back to playing
> with your sock-puppet and pretending that you don't use the site until
> next
> weekend, when I or someone else posts edition # 6.
I hate to break it to the empty headed faux woman, but no, Ruby is not me.
A simply check of the headers would show that. And no, I don't "use" the
site, except as a sort of humor site. It is usually good for a laugh, and
nothing more.
> For everyone else - thanks for stopping by transboutique.com, and have a
> nice weekend.
>
> Follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/transboutique
> Subscribe to our rss feed
> http://transboutique.com/backend/transboutique.rss
> Register to receive emails summarizing new stories as they are posted.
> Submit your stories.
> Or just stop by to see what all the fuss is about:
> http://transboutique.com
>
> About TransBoutique: transboutique.com is a transgender/transsexual
> support
> forum that is also dedicated to educating the general public on issues
> regarding gender roles and identities, to supportive discussions of people
> who find they don't fit in the "binary gender model", as well as a place
> where their friends, family, co-workers, teachers, parents, spouses, and
> children and ask questions and hopefully find a few answers.
Oh yes, the horde are just lining up to check out the place. Well, at least
they admit it is for people who don't fit the binary, which pretty much sums
it up. As I said, this is not a place for people who are serious about
correction and getting on with their lives. It is a place for people who
want to be out, loud, and proud freaks. People who want to be known as
really men, even though they are demanding that people suspend belief and
accept them as women. Something that is just going to bring them ongoing
frustration....and a load of laughs for everyone else.
Jennifer