recursiveparadox | Re: Two points (Reply)

From: (Anonymous)

I was so not trying to cause a ruckus with my two points. Rather I was just relating a very personal experience with Virginia and no, despite what others here may say, it was not fabricated!

What was said was very accurate, Look I even shared a hotel room with Virginia! Which rather improbably came about because Virginia had a thing for taking in waifs and possible novates at these things and in me she saw both.

The price of that room was I would agree be her pet project for four days. I ate with Virginia, went to seminars with Virginia, stayed past the close of the convention as did Virginia. Heck we even wound up eating that day at the same Dinner just past the Philly airport, (I drove) There Virginia and I had a very late three hour breakfast somewhere round 2:30 in the afternoon as I remember. At the dinner I ordered eggs with scrapple, which Virginia tasted for the first time though, a bit ambivalent about the scrapple btw. Virginia ordered pancakes, bacon, and eggs sunny side...

During these four days Virginia talked to me and at me non-stop. I was told in great detail about how Charles became Virginia, How Charles was arrested for federal pornography charges and sentenced to five years in the pen. I was told about Charles’s wife and their relationship and how Charles found other crossdressers as part of his sentence to speak to "men's" clubs. I was told how he started Transsvestia and how he started the social gatherings that would eventually become Tri-ess. Virginia related to me in great detail his her (he switched pronouns at random) life and how he she went about creating transgender as a term and why. I was even told about how the retirement community Virginia lived in and the fights that were had there because it was out that Virginia was still a man. But most of all I was told how utterly and totally wrong I was about being TS and wanting surgery and how we were all just transvestites if we would be realize it!. .I was even shown Virginia’s photo album and helped Virginia pack for the flight home

Mind you this was not some 40 years ago as it has been alluded to even if Virginia's role started back then (actually it would be more like 50+ if you want to be really accurate.) No this encounter withg Virginia was way back in 2003 and every bit of what I related in the first post came straight from the horse’s mouth...

None the less the point remains. Much to Charles “Virginia” Prince’s dismay I did not and would not derail transition. Rather I went on to have surgery and quite happily become an ordinary straight Suburban Soccer Mom. A women whose medical history is just not that important to her , her family or her man or anyone else in her life for that matter. (more so as none of them know)

A woman who like many others like her simply wants to get on with her life. A women who gets rather irked when she turns on the TV and there in living color and surround sound is yet another self appointed leader of “the community” exposing that the very life she leads is utterly impossible and that we are all one big happy family. Since when?

Mind you this is not hate on my part! Charles, Virginia Prince was kind to me even if Virginia would leave met with a headache every day from the nonstop badgering and even then I held nothing against Virginia. I respected Virginia’s right then and were Virginia still alive now, to be who Virginia was and all I have ever asked in return was the same

The simple right to be respected by this community not as a trans woman or a transgerder or a transsexual or a gender queer of part of some lgbr continuum. I only want the respect to be called what it says on my driver’s license, passport and birth certificate…

Female.

Again, is that really so much to ask?

Sibyl