transgender/intersex site

[kristan]

I have been a member of a site called Lauras playground.com for a few years. The site mainly deals with transgender issues, but has areas that address intersex issues. The site has a chat and a forum.

http://www.lauras-playground.com/


Cheers :martini_s

[Dianne]

I visit there, under a different username. It is one of the few sights with many young people.

(If an old broad like me can be of any use, I hope it is with the youngsters!)

[kristan]

haha.....I've probably seen you there. My user name there is my name. I live in a house with 8 other people, all with variants of the gender spectrum, and whom frequent tat site as users and moderators

[spacegirl]

I looked in on it, from being bored. The intersex section was kind of dead, every post in the last year fitting on one page. With a definition of intersex which probably doesn't do anyone justice. And all the pink and lavender kind of triggers eyestrain. Not that the default yellow-brown here is much better, but the default can be changed for while I'm logged in. But all that is just being persnickity. What I saw there doesn't offer me any compelling reasons to join. When I encounter transgendered persons in real life, so far they've always started acting as though they're very uncomfortable in my presence, within a short time. I've no explanation, and they've never offered any.

[strangerdanger]

I have been a member of a site called Lauras playground.com for a few years. The site mainly deals with transgender issues, but has areas that address intersex issues. The site has a chat and a forum.


Cheers :martini_s

Seems like a pretty cool place to hang out. I like the colors and background. Celestial things attract me :)

Looks like she's got a lot of info and some support to offer there. That's always helpful. TG and TS people facinate me because if you listen to them (such as a t.v. program about them), they all seem to say the same thing about how they recognized that something was wrong early in life.

I like the page about transgender spirituality. They speak of how they'd rather commit suicide than to be homosexual or transsexual. I've often felt that way too, wanting to commit suicide. But the good LORD above has spoken against committing such an act.

Great website. I enjoyed it.

Sorry I had to delete the url because it wouldn't let me post with the url in it.

[spacegirl]

Last week, intending to view that forum another time, I did a web search for it because I hadn't remembered the hyphen in the name. One thing I found was a post on another forum called "susans", where the accusation was being made that "susans" and "laura's playground" were sharing personal/registration data for all their users. The accusation wasn't being disputed very convincingly.

[Ryles]

I'd suggest everyone be careful on Laura's. It isn't a bad place- there are a lot of good people- but there are a few who aren't. One person there insists that intersexed people are automatically transgendered. :doh: I still don't know why, I tried to convince them otherwise and they just ignored me.
It's also not a good place for non-binary genders, if anyone identifies as one. There's an area for androgynes- but I've had a mod try to bully me out of my gender identity. :rolleyes1

It's a good resource, I don't mean to scare anyone off, but I think it's important to be aware of the problems, too. :confused6

[louisev]

so what's new? I rarely have trouble with straight men - they think i'm mildly exotic, like a dominatrix, and tend to make friends with straight women easily because I'm more male than your average chick-girlfriend and they like men, generally. It's the gays that are unhappy, because they prefer to see someone who is of mixed sex as being indecisive, in denial, hiding something or making up a spectacularly silly story to cover up some personal problem.

However, we do have something that the single-sexed do not have - if we are in the US: a Supreme Court decision that rules that anyone with a diagnosis of CAH may apply to change sex-of-record if they are more comfortable in that than the sexual assignment at birth.

I am still contemplating that, but I'm going to wait till I have been on steroid replacement therapy before doing anything 'rash.

[spacegirl]

Louise;
Do you happen to have a link to that SCOTUS decision? Because I can't find anything like that. All I could find was a decision by the supreme court of the Phillipines. But they don't count unless maybe you were born in the Phillipines. I do know that several states reserve the right to reject birth certificates and reclassify residents as whichever sex they want to call them.

[Ryles]

so what's new? I rarely have trouble with straight men - they think i'm mildly exotic, like a dominatrix, and tend to make friends with straight women easily because I'm more male than your average chick-girlfriend and they like men, generally. It's the gays that are unhappy, because they prefer to see someone who is of mixed sex as being indecisive, in denial, hiding something or making up a spectacularly silly story to cover up some personal problem.
I'm sorry that you've had problem wiht the gay community- many transgendered people do as well. I know a woman who's had lesbians attracted to her, but they refusedto date her because they would have problems for dating a woman like her. I've known a couple of trans people who faced more intolerance from their gay & lesbian friends than their fundamentalist christian parents. I think that's something we have in common, problems with the gay and lesbian community.
It's sad that many minority groups are intolerant of other minorities.

However, we do have something that the single-sexed do not have - if we are in the US: a Supreme Court decision that rules that anyone with a diagnosis of CAH may apply to change sex-of-record if they are more comfortable in that than the sexual assignment at birth.

I am still contemplating that, but I'm going to wait till I have been on steroid replacement therapy before doing anything 'rash.
That's a good thing. I'm planning on changing my legal sex- but probably won't for a few years for other reasons.

[spacegirl]

Ryles;
If you were born in the US, Louise is repeating internet meme misinformation. Not her fault, she probably heard it from someone else. And you might think it was valid info, until you tried to legally use it in the real world.

[Kailana]

actuallly many states allow gender marker changes with documentation of the cause of intersexuality and letters from a doctor.

The biggest issue though is getting that letter and complete records.

There are only a few states where they won't recognize a gender change due to an incorrect assignment and as far as I know that happens to be Texas as they in thier books at least are stuck on whether or not you have a Y or an X chromosome. Which can suck for a great many people.

[Aseras]

I know intersex people in texas who have has their marker and name changed with nothing but a letter from their doctor.

The only state in the whole of the US that wont change markers or names is tennesse. At least not simply. the only option there is to challenge the birth certificate in court as an error and to correct it ( not amend ). Currently until one of the bills in their house is passed, this is the only way as changing vital records is barred by the constitution there except for correcting bona fide "errors".

Every other state allows for some procedure to amend or reissue a birth certificate.

[Ryles]

Ryles;
If you were born in the US, Louise is repeating internet meme misinformation. Not her fault, she probably heard it from someone else. And you might think it was valid info, until you tried to legally use it in the real world.
I'm not intersexed, I'm a transsexual, so it's surgery that'll allow me to change that- however, I can definitely appreciate the desire to change your legal sex to match who you are (or what's closest, damn binarism), and think that IS people should be allowed to do so.

[joezoe]

I am new here and I am very pleasure to meet you and join in here.And thank you for your sharing!

[louisev]

Ryles;
If you were born in the US, Louise is repeating internet meme misinformation. Not her fault, she probably heard it from someone else. And you might think it was valid info, until you tried to legally use it in the real world.

Now I am trying to figure out where I saw that... I thought it was HERE, actually.

[fraulein_Maria]

Now I am trying to figure out where I saw that... I thought it was HERE, actually.

>>> it was the PHILIPINE supreme court. not my post though; i just remember someone posting it. <<<