| Bits and Pieces 01 |
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| Written by Lisa Jain Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 19 June 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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... meeting a friend years before the 2008 elections
leaves a person not transgendered
with the World Cup
and other concepts to do without …
Springfield, Virginia, USA. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear . . . more specifically, the three dot columns of Herb Caen in the San Francisco Chronicle.
![They can see the portrait [?] of Dorian Grey, but will Lisa Jain see it in time?](http://ts-policyreview.org/images/stories/DorianGrey.jpg "They can see the portrait [?] of Dorian Grey, but will Lisa Jain see it in time?") Meeting a friend decades later. Last week I was doing my day job at a meeting at the PEO for Enterprise Information Systems when I released that a colleague was there I hadn’t seen since a decade or more before my ... back when that other person was masquerading as me.As the meeting progressed, the usual inward awkwardness … does he recognize me? … if he does, what should I say? … if he doesn’t recognize me, shall I tell him? … suppose he’s put off by my transition ? … the usual transsexual B.S. ….
After the meeting he walked over to me … “Hi, I’m John M … we worked with each other in a previous life …” so much for my worries …
Three years out, 2008 presidential candidates are anyone’s guess. But here is who I would vote for along with various organization objections:
Who I would not vote for along with my objections:
The only one I’ve talked to on Transsexual issues is Mark Warner when he was governor. He seemed interested.
So that’s that …
Why I am not transgendered. My gender has never changed. I have ALWAYS been a woman … from the moment of my conception. What was wrong, what HAS changed, is my genitals.
… follow along in your textbook …
1. I was born with a birth defect … a penis was attached to my body.
Ecce Femina!
 The World Cup ... what do you think would happen if we train a group of six foot four natural athletes … the kind that are a dime a dozen on basketball courts and baseball stadiums … to play soccer and gave them four or five years training ….… how would the current world champions feel about going on field against a team that outweighed them by an average fifty pounds … do the conversion to kilograms yourself
… and outgrew them by 6 inches or more … ditto the metric …
… what would the world think then? … bet they would ask for more drug tests …
Concepts we could do without …
The views expressed in this column are those of the columnist. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Transsexual Symposium, Inc. (TS-Si), its subsidiaries, affliates, or partners.
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