[Livia]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I genuinely do think that most people would agree on this issue, if they realized whats actually going on. As it stands, anyone who tries to speak out about it is threatened into silence, or even physically attacked. People seem less scared these days though. Maybe this is due to so many cases being publicized and thus more people finding out the extent of the crazyness.

I just hope that actual transsexual people are not caught in the crossfire. As its not transsexual people who are causing the problems we see today, and indeed most transsexuals are pretty sane on this issue, its not them screeching on about how male people actually ARE female and such. It is 'transgender' people. More specifically, 'transgender women' (or trans-identified males as I prefer to call them, as they are not women in any sense of the word, especially when threatening to rape me with their ladysticks )

Transsexual people are subjected to the exact same rape and death threats as women are, when they speak up on this issue. From the same people who claim to be fighting for them. You have to wonder who will actually benefit from the majority of 'transactivism', as its certainly not transsexual people.

It seems that the militant few are always to blame for this kind of crap, and like you say, transsexual people must get caught in the crossfire. The whole militant stance on this has cast a very poor light on the transsexual community when it's not really the majority of them causing the stir and when I imagine they have plenty of issues to deal with in their lives already.