Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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Strega - Jun 26, 2009 10:28:38 am PDT #2624 of 30000

I do love Gremlins 2 more, but I like the Ghostbusters/Gremlins Saturday night lineup. Especially since Gremlins starts at midnight.

Oh man, and Robocop & Buckaroo Bonzai are on the same night, too. Peter Weller double-feature!

My friend Marcia may know who programmed their schedule. If she does I'm going to have to send them flowers or something. If I have any money left after going to the movies every weekend.


Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2009 10:29:26 am PDT #2625 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Cool, I've met Charlie Jane Anders several times. She's a transgendered male

She's a transwoman, or he's a transman? Your wording was confusing. From context, I'm gathering she's a transwoman?

Yeah, male-to-female. So I guess she is a male who transgendered rather than a female who is transgendered?


Jessica - Jun 26, 2009 10:29:55 am PDT #2626 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

She's a transwoman, or he's a transman? Your wording was confusing. From context, I'm gathering she's a transwoman?

I was wondering the same thing.


P.M. Marc - Jun 26, 2009 10:30:39 am PDT #2627 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

She's a transwoman, is how I'd say it, probably. Your transperson may vary.


Aims - Jun 26, 2009 10:30:53 am PDT #2628 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I am also confused. We have a friend who is named E. She was once named [male name I don't know]. Is E transgendered from male to female?


Steph L. - Jun 26, 2009 10:34:22 am PDT #2629 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm pretty sure if you use the term "transgendered" or "transsexual," then the construction is (for example) " transgender/transsexual MtF (male-to-female)," for someone born a man who transitioned to female.

With "trans man" and "trans woman" (and many people who are trans prefer that it be 2 words, but not all feel that way), then "trans woman" means someone who was born a male and transitioned to female; "trans man" is someone born a woman who transitioned to male.

t edit But like Plei said, it's easier and more sense-making to use the "trans man/woman" construction rather than "transgendered female-to-male/male-to-female."

signed,
your friendly neighborhood transgender knowitall

t edit again It's "trans woman" for someone born a man who transitioned to female (and vice versa) because it identifies their *current* gender.

t edit one more damn time Identifying someone as their current gender is always the way to go. So you do NOT say "she is a male who is transgendered." Because *she* isn't a male, even if she was born one.


Connie Neil - Jun 26, 2009 10:39:47 am PDT #2630 of 30000
brillig

Buckaroo Bonzai--this, along with Big Trouble in Little China, would be included in the "You can only take these things with you to a desert island" list.


Aims - Jun 26, 2009 10:50:07 am PDT #2631 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Teppy - insent.


P.M. Marc - Jun 26, 2009 10:52:10 am PDT #2632 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Identifying someone as their current gender is always the way to go. So you do NOT say "she is a male who is transgendered." Because *she* isn't a male, even if she was born one.

Yes! This. (I think one word is how most of my transfriends spell it. But either way, it is simple and elegant! And correctly identifies them!)


DavidS - Jun 26, 2009 10:53:04 am PDT #2633 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

She's a transwoman, or he's a transman? Your wording was confusing. From context, I'm gathering she's a transwoman?

Bio man who dresses and identifies female. Charlie hasn't had surgical reassignment, nor do I know if she wants to. I suspect not since Annalee paid for Charlie's nose job and I gotta figure that money would've been saved up for a reassignment surgery if that was a goal. I think Charlie likes being a chick with a dick.

Hence me opting for "transgender" over "transexual" and yet I think she's somewhere past "transvestite" too. I tend to use "transgender" to indicate the more fluid gender identity that is somewhere in the space between crossdressing and surgery.