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| Fear & Loathing in Scottsdale: A Gonzo Journey In The Wilderness |
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| Opinion - Global Warning | |||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |||
| Tuesday, 29 April 2008 18:00 | |||
 TS-Si President & Contributing Editor
Ms. Thompson writes a regular TS-Si.org opinion column, Global Warning, and co-authors other signed articles. All of her work is available in the TS-Si.org Article Archive. A cross-dresser who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has what he has and that is all that he has, and he can’t afford to admit to either himself or his wife, and certainly not to the security guard in the shopping mall, no matter how often he is asked, no matter who is asking, that every day his life takes him further down the rabbit hole into a world where very few rabbits ever change into eagles or even Black Labradors.
Rabbits don’t make laws or change basic structures, most are happy simply being rabbits although they would like a few changes to the rest stop protocols and the prevalence of drunken adolescent males striving to impress their girlfriends or, failing that, a few regulations limiting the length of open hunting season. There is not much mental distance
between the paranoid belief you are getting a raw deal and outraging the public decency
with demands for free license to do whatever your hidden, fetish driven id desires.
Washington, DC, USA. Science observes the universe, records what has occurred, and then develops a testable  theory that can explain those observations and make predictions on future ones.
Albert Einstein was very good at thi...Transgenders, who never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, preferring to hide behind the post-ops and college-age gender fuckers rebelling against their parents in their first moments of freedom away from home, saw the defeat of gender identity in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms.
The truth is never told during the nine to five hours and certainly not on the weekend when everyone is dressing in their pretties. In a movement run by male transgenders, all transgenders are upwardly mobile and HBS men and women – the ones who all this is ostensibly about – are fucked, shoved into the desert fringe behind the Joshua Trees by the men in dresses desperate to avoid any and all comparisons to the medical condition formerly known as transsexuality.
What can you say about a movement that teaches gender is fluid and the sexual binary non-existent while they sit out of the desert sun in their air conditioned rooms, turning scientific research into puddles of black poison in front of your eyes as they watched TV, relentlessly masturbating in the corner while they wait nervously for the knock on the door that means their mother or their wife or maybe their boss from the job they really don’t want will soon be asking what they have been doing with their time, all those hours alone with only the computer to light the room.
 Scottsdale is filled with ancient men and women who have flown in from snow country to admire the empty, open reaches of the winter desert. Post-op HBS, fresh from the surgeon, limp past the shiny motorcycles lined up along the hot, shimmering sidewalks as they work their slow way to lunch in Old Town by the Arts Center. This close to the knife, there are no transgenders, no cross-dressers, no transvestites, no weekend women who disappear come Monday morning, no asexual messianic leaders who emerge after forty days in the desert to expound profound political philosophies intending to change the way the world really works. Scottsdale is all too real for that. It’s a strange world. If there is, in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a self-congratulatory version of a World Professional Association for Transgender Health convention in Chicago where male cross-dressers and transgenders spend their days telling each other how good they look in their WALMART finery while new age doctors hawk the latest natural hot new thing in the side rooms. Everyone will seem vaguely happy – the convention hall is well lit and the speakers’ bromides make everything and everyone seem well and good – except that in their hearts, they know something is not quite right and whatever it is – perhaps the post-ops – is driving them quietly into a kind of terminal craziness that comes from understanding that the one thing you want is not there, will probably never be there because it is backordered to some factory in China where they substitute pesticides for protein in dog food.
It is all well and good for transgenders to believe in Santa Claus, but it is profoundly unsettling that of any twenty transgenders working the street – the chicks with dicks, the she-males, the sex and gender are societal constructs young party girls – nineteen of them will be dead within five years but the weekend women will still be safely in their basements exchanging messages with the academics on gender theory, the problems of the working class, and the need to pass a federal law giving them bathroom privileges at the mall.
No more games. No more holiday balls. No more walking hand in hand through the corridors of congress as stalking horses for middle class transgendered women who demand their rights as both men and women and then disappear when the talk turns to health insurance, birth certificates, and need to publicly distinguish between those of us born with HBS and the cross-dressers, between actual physical sex and public presentations of gender, between those of us who are only women and those who remain always otherwise except on weekends.
 Ms. Lisa Jain Thompson is a Co-Founder & Principal of TS-Si. She also serves as a Contributing Editor and columnist for the TS-Si website. She maintains another site, StarPoet.com, for her poetry and literary works.Ms. Thompson's signed articles contain her own opinions and do not necessarily convey an official position of TS-Si, its partners, or affiliates. Lisa welcomes your comments. Use the form below or email via her TS-Si Contact Page. We will not divulge any personal details or place you on a mailing list without your permission.
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