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First ever Lingerie line for transgender women!

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Xenuria
#21 - 2013-02-07 03:36:16 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Xenuria wrote:

I really can not find any negative consequence of this. I think this company is doing a good thing.



Yes they are.

But my goodness, the first Trangender folks first appeared in the 1950's !!!!!! (Christine Jorgenson)

Just how much longer are we expected to wait for 'acceptance' ?

It's not like it's 'new' for sakes............



Well consider this, I am a psychology grad student with a specialization in gender and sexuality studies. When I encounter a hostility of any kind from another human being the first thing I do is ponder the reasons why it happened. I have spent considerable time researching human behavior and I still encounter situations where I have no idea why a person did or said something.

Fortunately in the case of trans-phobia or even homophobia the root causes of this is a lack of understanding. The term phobia literally means fear of. It is human nature to be afraid of something that is unknown to the extent that it is threatening. The issue is trans people are NOT new or deviant in any way. There is no legitimacy in fearing them.

Transgender is in no small part the result of a society/culture that partitions and categorizes social constructs in a very restrictive way.

:SPOILER ALERT: Gender isn't real


Gender is literally something that we human beings have created to distinguish between different things. It's not actually a scientific or measurable thing. You can't draw blood and determine somebodies gender. You can determine their sex, but not their gender.

Sorry for the walls of text, I can talk forever about gender and social constructs in general.


Tl;dr

Gender isn't actually real(It is a social construct)
Lingerie for people who identify as trans does not hurt anybody

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Reiisha
#22 - 2013-02-07 11:00:53 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Why would a transgender woman need special lingerie... what would need to be hidden? That makes it not a transgender, it's a man! Shocked


Getting the proper surgery is not something you do on a whim or within a week of making the appointment... Might be a year, two years before you even get to that point, so what to do in between?

If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...
Xenuria
#23 - 2013-02-07 14:15:21 UTC
Reiisha wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Why would a transgender woman need special lingerie... what would need to be hidden? That makes it not a transgender, it's a man! Shocked


Getting the proper surgery is not something you do on a whim or within a week of making the appointment... Might be a year, two years before you even get to that point, so what to do in between?


Valid Point.

Lets not forget that any kind of surgery or treatments cost money. LOADS OF MONEY
Most of the time insurance companies don't cover this sort of thing and when they do you have to jump through rings of fire for them to even cover part of it.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#24 - 2013-02-07 14:55:05 UTC
Xenuria wrote:


Lets not forget that any kind of surgery or treatments cost money. LOADS OF MONEY
Most of the time insurance companies don't cover this sort of thing and when they do you have to jump through rings of fire for them to even cover part of it.



I believe that one of the few places this is covered is in San Francisco's city employee medical policy. They will. But nowhere else that I know of.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
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