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A minute or so's clip about Evie who is transgendered but is body positive. She does highlight some of the more crass questions we get asked in this short film.
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I really like that!
Thank you for sharing the clip Angharad. It did please me to see how much progress at least some young adults have made when dealing openly with their transition
Rhona McCloud
It's good to see
more and more positive stories coming out about being transgender. Thanks for posting it Angharad. As a movie-maker, I wasn't impressed with how it was shot, but that wasn't Evie's fault. Some directors try to be too clever.
Where it should go.
I have seen a couple people whose gender is completely indeterminate. One of them looked like a greek God but I could not tell the gender at all. I am hoping that homo sapiens is evolving faster than we think. After all, blonde hair and blue eyes only came round about 12,000 years ago. Early Americans were just little tykes, many being close to 5' and less. I notice it still hangs on here because I am around the same height of others here in the West but when I was in Ohio and Georgia, I seemed a giant.
The only thing that can save humanity is if we become less war like. Effeminate people used to be simply killed, but now more of us are surviving to contribute to the gene pool. Though she said she would not get surgery or take hormones, perhaps she is not XY? There are more and more of us around now.
Good on her.
Gwen
She's on hormones
and she didn't say anything about surgery. She did say that if she hadn't been able to transition her life wouldn't be worth living. There was a caption which said that being transgender didn't mean you had to have treatment for it but she didn't say that. I also thought I picked up a slight Welsh accent.
Angharad
Definitely Welsh Angharad
Evie has several YouTube videos under ‘My Genderation’ and this is the first I think where she says that long Welsh place name https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0arsmpyzc
Rhona McCloud
Unfortunately
They got the spelling wrong, missing out an 'r'.
Leave it to Ang's ear to hear a Welsh accent
Now I Definitely, know what not to ask. Actually, only those who aren't comfortable, or get a little prurient kick(?) out of being around a transgendered girl /woman would ask those questions, don't you think? That is a real private question, up there with "are those real?"
Cefin
You'd be surprised at what people ask
if they know you're transgender/transsexual. Have you had the op? Do you like men? have you done it with men? What were you called before? All sorts of intrusive things, some might be genuine as they try to orient themselves with us but even so if they asked an ordinary female, they'd might well get told where to go, but they think they can do so with us. Initially, when people transition, they're quite happy to answer questions because they think the questioners are really interested and the next best thing to doing something you enjoy is talking about it. In the early stages we'll usually talk the ears off anyone who's daft enough to listen.
Angharad
I read the story this time
Evie is twenty-five! I had her pegged for 20, at most.
So, that is a Welsh accent. Nice, I like it. Sounds easy on a Boston North Shore ear.
Cefin
So, If you are truly
So, If you are truly interested, and sensitive in your question, it wouldn't be prying? I assume this wouldn't be between total strangers. "Hi, nice to meet you, are you a surgical tg or not?" We all know people who would ask this, I suppose.
Cefin