Here are ten articles about trans that appeared in mainstream publications between 1979 and 2016. None of them would be published in today’s age of unhinged gender extremism.
Excellent read! The story about the number of transsexuals that suffer after transition reminded me of a recent interview that Blaire White did with ShapeShifter. If you haven't seen it, just be prepared to cry a lot.
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A veritable treasury of topically pertinent articles, all contributions to the gender critical arsenal. Thanks for this, Arty Morty, and thanks for your always insightful contributions to The Mess We're In. The three of you have a wonderful chemistry - either that or you're all first-rate at dissembling, which I somehow doubt. Long live the fight against the gender woo woo insanity, and long live your collaboration with our dear Glinner and the redoubtable Helen Staniland.
Glad to see you put this together. A friend of mine was treated by Dr. Renee Richards a few years ago (opthalmologist, tennis player, man who cross-sex ideates) and Dr. Richards suddenly brought up that he actually regrets the surgeries and the masquerading as a woman. I am the ex-wife of a similarly behaving man, and he accused me in court during the divorce that I forced him to decide to live "full-time as a woman" because I wanted out of the marriage. He also claimed to be unemployed when he was making $700 a day as a consultant (I found proof--he was sued for violating a non-compete contract) and submitted fraudulent financials in court a second time when he refused to pay anything towards our sons' college tuitions. We grass widows know a great deal about the family histories, the dysfunction, the abuse and so on, when it comes to cross-sex ideation by husbands.
Ute Heggen, author of In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow
I had a question, and this might be the correct place to ask it.
I read the Rolling Stone story about the Wachowski and the Dom previously. But since, I've learned more about autogynephelia and that it can cause some men to become domineering and abusive to their partners.
After re-reading about the Wachowski and the Dom, I went in search of any info about her. There wasn't much. In fact, when I searched for pictures of the Dom, I only found pics of the Wachowksi.
So 2 thoughts:
1. She is private and just wants to be left alone. Possible.
2. The Wachowski picked a dominant (literally) woman and made her submissive as part of some complicated power dynamic.
Maybe she's perfectly fine. Or maybe she isn't.
There was something that was said during the Heard-Depp trial - Depp said that Heard was perfect in every way. Until she wasn't...
Great collection. Interestingly, in the online fetish and specifically heterosexual femdom circles for example on Fetlife, where the norm is to be very trans affirming, there tends to be a certain bizarre splitting between "bad sissies" (the last time I looked it was one of the kinks it was ok to "kinkshame" for and openly reject and question as "misogynistic caricature") and "good transwomen" (who get all the underdog affirmation of the current zeitgeist). Occasionally you might hear voices claiming that some sissies turn out to be "eggs" (tw who think they're merely cross dressers and don't realise they are trans) but generally it's seen as Two Very Different Things. Cis male cross dressers are somewhere in between on the "ok to despise" scale.
That said, sissy appreciation and rehabilitation has been going on for a while in the "mainstream fetlife F/m discourse" so (I have not been for a while) I would not be surprised if soon saying that sissy kink is misogynistic became transgressive. Certainly younger people tend to veer more that way.
Just, wow. A friend of mine recently told me that she had an eye exam pre-cataract surgery with eye doctor, tennis player, Renee Richards. During the exam, he dropped the bomb that he regrets the whole thing, the surgeries, the hormones, the whole masquerade. Interesting that he just drops that in passing with random new patients. There are no reliable measures practitioners use to tell whether someone who "wants' a genital surgery will later regret it.
Ute Heggen, author of In the Curated Woods, True Tales of a Grass Widow.
An absolute treasure trove of articles- thank you for compiling these together 👍🏻
Excellent read! The story about the number of transsexuals that suffer after transition reminded me of a recent interview that Blaire White did with ShapeShifter. If you haven't seen it, just be prepared to cry a lot.
A veritable treasury of topically pertinent articles, all contributions to the gender critical arsenal. Thanks for this, Arty Morty, and thanks for your always insightful contributions to The Mess We're In. The three of you have a wonderful chemistry - either that or you're all first-rate at dissembling, which I somehow doubt. Long live the fight against the gender woo woo insanity, and long live your collaboration with our dear Glinner and the redoubtable Helen Staniland.
Glad to see you put this together. A friend of mine was treated by Dr. Renee Richards a few years ago (opthalmologist, tennis player, man who cross-sex ideates) and Dr. Richards suddenly brought up that he actually regrets the surgeries and the masquerading as a woman. I am the ex-wife of a similarly behaving man, and he accused me in court during the divorce that I forced him to decide to live "full-time as a woman" because I wanted out of the marriage. He also claimed to be unemployed when he was making $700 a day as a consultant (I found proof--he was sued for violating a non-compete contract) and submitted fraudulent financials in court a second time when he refused to pay anything towards our sons' college tuitions. We grass widows know a great deal about the family histories, the dysfunction, the abuse and so on, when it comes to cross-sex ideation by husbands.
Ute Heggen, author of In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow
uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com
Amazing compilation, thank you!
I had a question, and this might be the correct place to ask it.
I read the Rolling Stone story about the Wachowski and the Dom previously. But since, I've learned more about autogynephelia and that it can cause some men to become domineering and abusive to their partners.
After re-reading about the Wachowski and the Dom, I went in search of any info about her. There wasn't much. In fact, when I searched for pictures of the Dom, I only found pics of the Wachowksi.
So 2 thoughts:
1. She is private and just wants to be left alone. Possible.
2. The Wachowski picked a dominant (literally) woman and made her submissive as part of some complicated power dynamic.
Maybe she's perfectly fine. Or maybe she isn't.
There was something that was said during the Heard-Depp trial - Depp said that Heard was perfect in every way. Until she wasn't...
Any thoughts?
Great collection. Interestingly, in the online fetish and specifically heterosexual femdom circles for example on Fetlife, where the norm is to be very trans affirming, there tends to be a certain bizarre splitting between "bad sissies" (the last time I looked it was one of the kinks it was ok to "kinkshame" for and openly reject and question as "misogynistic caricature") and "good transwomen" (who get all the underdog affirmation of the current zeitgeist). Occasionally you might hear voices claiming that some sissies turn out to be "eggs" (tw who think they're merely cross dressers and don't realise they are trans) but generally it's seen as Two Very Different Things. Cis male cross dressers are somewhere in between on the "ok to despise" scale.
That said, sissy appreciation and rehabilitation has been going on for a while in the "mainstream fetlife F/m discourse" so (I have not been for a while) I would not be surprised if soon saying that sissy kink is misogynistic became transgressive. Certainly younger people tend to veer more that way.
Was "Ms." not entrenched enough for newspapers to use it by 1979? "Miss Raymond" is pretty jarring tbh
Just, wow. A friend of mine recently told me that she had an eye exam pre-cataract surgery with eye doctor, tennis player, Renee Richards. During the exam, he dropped the bomb that he regrets the whole thing, the surgeries, the hormones, the whole masquerade. Interesting that he just drops that in passing with random new patients. There are no reliable measures practitioners use to tell whether someone who "wants' a genital surgery will later regret it.
Ute Heggen, author of In the Curated Woods, True Tales of a Grass Widow.
This is excellent