*stares*

[conuly]

I hope this doesn't come out the wrong way, but...

Dear god, how many of youse guys are transgendered/ambiguiously gendered/whatever????

I'm now up to four people on my friends list (that I know of). And I love you all dearly, and want everyone to be as happy as is reasonably possible. I just didn't know so many of my friends were... whatever the word is (I'm still not sure about that). Kinda like when I realized so many of my friends were religious, but different. (Actually, it's a tossup about which surprised me more.)

I mean, I understand why so many of my friends are autists, because I actively seek out autistic friends. And I understand why so many of my friends are bi, because most people are. But I'm a bit surprised at the number of people who identify as transgendered/whatever. I understand vaguely why various people are trans, but I'm not sure how chance led me to have more trans friends than I realized. Unless my view on statistics was completely effed up.

Yeah, this did come out wrong. I mean more along the lines of "wow, I'm surprised, I wasn't expecting that" not "OMG! UR ALL FREKES!!!!1111oneoneeleventyone!!!1". Once the surprise at the numbers wears off, I'll be back to my normal non-caring benevolence.

Incidentally, if you want to tell me anything revelatory, now would be a good time.

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[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Bi sexual, Bi genderd, Try sexual. Yes I revel in being insane autistic freak open to the sort of ideas about identity and body that make most people cringe. The best bit is of course so is my partner. So the real answer is we are what we are. If that's weird to some people, so be it. I revel in the hate from "christians" n the like. Revel in it. Something to do with being 6 foot tall and 200 odd pounds in a country where almost nobody has firearms. Thye can hate me all they like, there is sweet FA they can do about it.
In fact most australians are pritty easy about it. Espicaly at my work place. here's a very good example.
Yesterday i was attending fire warden training. the 50 year old vetren fire fighter running the training was honestly suprised none of us wanted to quizz him about the rather public coming out of the first openly transgendered fire fighter in australia last week. it was at his station so yeah, i guess he;s copped a bit of it. But questioning it didnt even occur to any of us to ask. A room full of 30 people and not any of em gave a damn.