[ SECRET POST #1847 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1847 ⌋


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Comments

[violence4.livejournal.com]

I have to say, like the anons above, I'm a bit confused by the last bit of this. Does the treatment of cross-dressing annoy you because you know other people who are cross-dressers and feel that what you have learnt from them isn't being represented, or is it because you feel it isn't anything like your experience? The experience of a cross-dressing character is going to be very different from yours as a trans person. Cross-dressing and being trans are two very different things.

Anyway, I'm very sorry that you feel you can't be open with anybody, but perhaps you should try and talk to some of your friends. My brother is trans and he often says he is frequently nicely surprised by how well people react to it (not that they shouldn't react well, but sadly there are still a lot of examples where people don't). Perhaps you will be pleasantly surprised too? :)

[tweentheeyes.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this person just doesn't know their terminology (if their friends and psychologist are so unsupportive, there's a chance they simply haven't met anyone who knows much about trans issues).

I can relate to the OP about cross-dressing stories being annoying. I understand that wearing a dress as a disguise (which is often how cross-dressing-types of storylines go) is completely different than a trans individual dressing to express their identity, but some of the gags still hit too close to home for me.

For example, a common gag in these storylines is that an unaware person will hit on the cross-dressing person, and then that person will freak out when they discover the actual gender of who they've been stalking (or there's an undertone of "ohohohoho, wait til he/she discovers the REAL gender of that person--Cloud's cross-dressing plan to enter a brothel in FF7 is a good example of this). When I see a gag like that, it just reminds me of the actual harassment issues my mtf friends grapple with on a day-to-day basis, and it just isn't funny to me at all.

In general, cross-dressing plots are often treated as a huge joke (i.e., a humiliating necessity for a spy mission or the like, often there are gags like men recoiling when they discover a person ina dress actually has male genitalia, etc). I can definitely see how someone could be annoyed by these jokes, even if they aren't explicitly making fun of trans individuals. I hope that makes sense...