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[–]teacherterf 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think a lot of supportive people really do not understand the issues. They think transwomen are people who look and act like Blaire White and had full surgery. And then that's their mental image for sports, prisons, etc - Blaire White doesn't look any stronger than a typical woman on the rugby team, or any more dangerous than the typical female prisoner, etc.

[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hope you know that the "full surgery" Blaire White & nearly all trans-identified males get hardly ever involve operations on their genitals. Almost all these guys keep their dicks & balls.

To Blaire's credit, he has been honest about his choice to keep his genitals intact. But he has been disingenuous in saying that the drugs he's taken mean he no longer has DNA. In fact, what Blaire means is that he no longer can produce viable sperm.

[–]teacherterf 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know that Blaire is intact. That's why I specified "look like Blaire White AND had full surgery". By full I meant full; I'm not a TRA - I use words correctly.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But nowadays, "full surgery" for TIMs does not mean what the general public thinks it means. Most people think "full surgery" for males who ID as trans entails genital surgery - removal of the testicles & penile inversion in the creation of a fauxgina & fauxlva. But amongst the trans community & those who provide them with care & procedures, "full surgery" for males such as Blaire now means exactly - and only - the kinds of cosmetic procedures Blaire has already had: facial feminization surgeries, hairline lowering, the implantation of large round silicone sacs of gel or fluid into the chest, lip injections, body contouring, butt augmentation/lifts, etc.