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Delivering The Thompson Ultimatum

Opinion - Global Warning

Lisa Jain Thompson

Sunday, 13 July 2008 18:00

Springfield, VA, USA. There is no law against someone making you feel uncomfortable, no constitutional right to life free from discomfort, no overriding declaration asserting life, liberty, and deliverance from unpleasant annoyances like this column.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides for Freedom of Expression not Freedom from Expression. [N1] I speak, you speak, he, she, and it speak. We all speak, even they speak, them of all people.

Damn communist white patriarchal radical feminist right wing leftist Trotskyite cross-dressing gender frigging black separatist honky racist Islamic terrorist academic republican overlord democratic socialist libertarian nihilistic pseudo revolutionary the new boss is the same as the old boss spoiled self-centered egotistical power hungry politicized social engineering wingnut middle of the road it’s only a matter of time until they act on their thoughts self-appointed moral police.

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We at TS-Si get numerous complaints — some considered and well written, some emotional rants — that we don’t represent some particular faction, some distinct and meticulous point of view, some narrow banded section of political philosophy that purports to be the real truth (unlike all that other crap out there). We are charged with a whole list of offenses that says we are:

Separatists (ever-popular with the transgendered set and cross-dressers)
Elitists (usually aimed at us by spoiled white guilt-ridden middle class products of a minimalist post-modern education, the ones who always want to enforce their politically correct rules on the rest of us)
Fascists and totalitarians (a favorite of the left)
Immoral sexual perverts (the Judaic-Islamic-Christian Coalition)
Irrelevant (by those who dismiss us out of hand)
Mentally unstable for pursuing Sex Reassignment Surgery — SRS (usually comes from cross-dressers and transvestites who need to believe that they are the normal ones)
Autogynephilic (by anesthesiologists and social psychologists who are angry that their peers discredited their “research” findings as misleading at best, unsupportable by the data they collected, and their science as just plain wrong and ill-advised — still, a girl needs a career, I guess, even if she might suffer from autogynephelia herself). [N2]

You can look through the articles on this site — by us, by others — and the thousands of scientific research papers — you will not find one instance where we are separatists. [N3] You will, however, find us stating that being born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS, aka transsexuality) is different from being transgendered. One is about changing your genitalia, the other, your social role and presentation.

They’re not the same thing at all. It is misleading and deceitful to knowingly confuse sex and gender presentation, while pretending that HBS is just a another, more extreme form of transgenderism. No matter what the political gain might be for the transgendered, HBS men and women are harmed by a political philosophy that tells them that the gender costume is everything and the SRS operation is an optional life style choice that can be avoided if only the confused HBS pre-op would learn to dress properly. Fashion becomes all and medical treatment unnecessary alteration that need not be covered by medical insurance until male cross-dressers can enter public women’s restrooms indiscriminately.

Likewise, we are not elitist when we focus on the needs of HBS men and women. We are not elitist when we work to get medical treatment and legal protection for those born with HBS while they are under a doctor’s care and transitioning. We are not elitists when we put the science out there and let the research and the papers speak for themselves. We are not a full spectrum, one across the world political movement. We are not the Workers Party or Transgender Anonymous. We are men and women born with HBS working to better the lives of other HBS men and women.

We force no one to be born with HBS just as we do not deny any transgendered person their rights. But we oppose anyone and everyone — political parties, the medical establishment, or left or right wing pressure groups — who would bring harm to those born with HBS, whether that harm comes from religious beliefs, political philosophies or expediency, personal opinion masquerading as science, or the active denial of proper medical treatment to HBS men and women.

We are called fascists and totalitarians because we dare to disagree with those who are transgendered, the cross-dressers, and fetish transvestites who would make us one big family, who infiltrate HBS email lists and support groups and attempt to change their focus to transgendered concerns and discussions of passing, who try to dominate public conversation by talking over HBS men and women and refocusing the public discussion on the need of anatomically male transgenders to use the ladies’ room when they are out for a night on the town. As we will not let them speak unquestioned and unopposed, so we are label fascist totalitarians as they attempt to silence our voices.

If your religion or moral beliefs requires you to call HBS women and men sexual perverts, that is your personal problem. This is America, not a religious state under the Sharia or run by the whim of the popular televangelist of the moment, and the science, the biology, and the medicine are on our side. You can believe you are at the center of the universe, that the ocean is flat and the sun revolves around the world, but the earth still moves despite your godly opinions.

To those who might believe us irrelevant, why do you complain so loudly? Why do you scream and yell and try to shout us down and shut us out of the public forum?

Why do you assault us with denials of service or attacks from porn sites and their ilk? What are you afraid of?

We will not surrender. We will not go away.

For if we are to start looking for who is mentally unstable, we need not look any farther than emotional states you attempt to project on us.

We are not the ones who feel so guilty about our desires that we periodically trash our clothes then rebuy them and start all over again.
We are not the ones who must wear specific costumes to excite us sexually so that we can get ourselves off in the safety of our bedrooms.
We are not the ones who greatest thrill is to sneak into a women’s restroom and get back out without being noticed.

Don’t project your own psychosexual insecurities on those of us born with HBS – keep them in your own closet along with everything else.

And now finally, last and least, we do not suffer from autogynephelia, the Stepford child of bad science and ego tripping psycho-babbling social shrinks more interested in being media stars than being correct. Peer-review in the reputable medical and scientific journal discredited the original autogynephelia research for the misuse and misinterpretation of subject data, promulgation of conclusions that were not supported by the data, and willful departure from accepted scientific methods and standards.

Bottom line: autogynephelia does not have enough supporting data to even be considered a testable theory, being, at the moment, merely a collection of unsupported personal opinion and invective that has little, if anything, to do with HBS.

But if you want to believe that transgenders, transvestites, or cross-dressers suffer from HBS (or if you think you do yourself), go right ahead. Just don’t include HBS men and women in your little colonial empire building.

If I’ve rattled your tree or shaken your particular personal universe and removed some of that arrogant smugness from that face, I’ve done my job and it’s time to let the science speak for itself once again. Let the games begin.

Notes[N1] Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[N2] Autogynephilia is the controversial theory put forth by Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence that characterizes some cross dressers and some transsexuals as having sexual motivations for transition. The basic idea is that such people are men who are sexually aroused and attracted to the idea of themselves as women.

Many medical professionals criticize characterizations related to libido (like these) as courting potentially unscientific and phobic characterizations. The concept has been peer reviewed and found so far to be unsupported by any scientific data. In any event, autogynephilia fails to offer an explanation for people born transsexual who transition from femle to male.

[N3] Separatist, noun. (1) One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist. (2) One who advocates disjunction of a group from a larger group or political unit: Basque separatists. (3) One who advocates cultural, ethnic, or racial separation. Source: American Heritage Dictionary.

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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Excellent as always Lisa. , Over the years Lisa, I have

14 July 2008

Over the years Lisa, I have been the recipiant of a great deal of flack for the stance I have taken on where the very real observable differences lay between HBS men and women and those who suffer the various forms of sexual deviancies. (deviant only in different from the accepted norm) Though at the beginning I did not call it HBS the term did not not exist. The time I spent counselling many hundreds of genuinly very troubled transvestites and transgendered individuals taught me that when the "real deal" HBS woman entered my office; the differences were quite marked. Not just in appearance, though that was often a factor but in attitude and needs.

It seemed obvious to me that these factors were present though strangely colleagues although they too noticed the same symptoms placed a different interpretation on them. centered around personality. Within the support group in which I was once active there were those who were admired and looked up to and one phenomenum that was common to all of these "heroes" was the somewhat "outrageous" appearance and behaviour. The few, very few group members who I would now describe as HBS were much less inclined to "strut their stuff" Preferring to sit quietly with the few wives of the transvestites and such who attended, of whom there was a few. Don't get me wrong here, they were quite outgoing women, just not quite so noisey.

After a couple of years of this my own need to get away from the pervasive nature of transgender culture became acute and I left the group and my practise but left with a belief that the relationship between those I saw as HBS and those who were transvestite or transgendered was aspirational in nature. Transgendered saught to become women; transvestites seek to be see to be like women occasionally. HBS are already women and are seen as the transestite's and transgendered's route to their desire's. That is why they get so angry bitter and twisted when it is pointed out that they are not all like us and not at all like women either.

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Evangelina

..., Excellently written Lisa Jain and it speaks my feel

15 July 2008

Thank You Lisa for a well written article......, I want

16 July 2008

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