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Originally posted by leagleaze
I don't know percentage, but I know it is quite common for the transgendered male to female folk to be gay. I am probably speaking out of turn though, it is just of the ones I know, they are with women.
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And all this time I thought the old Village Voice personal ad written by a "lesbian woman trapped in a man's body" (while confusingly claiming not to be transsexual) was a scam for some guy to try to nail lesbians.
I went to law school with a transgendered woman. Up to then I'd led a very sheltered life so it made me a little uncomfortable at the beginning of my 1L year to share the bathroom (silly, I know as there were separate stalls) with her. Eventually, I stopped thinking of her as someone who used to be a man. In part it was helped by the effect of the hormones that got rid of the 5 o'clock shadow she used to get by Con Law class.
The more interesting story is that my Dad knows a transgendered woman. He is a licensed firearms dealer and goes to gun shows where most of the attendees and dealers are pretty macho NRA types. He became friends with another dealer who used to be a sniper in the Canadian military. A few months ago Dad's friend showed up with long blond hair, makeup and women's clothes and announced his upcoming surgery and new name. (He went to Europe for his surgery -- do they require a shorter period of living as the other gender before having the operation?) For a conservative old fart, Dad is remarkably blase about it as are, apparently, the rest of the dealers he knows. A cautionary note: if you're a guy and think you really should be a woman, don't get large macho tattoos on your arms. It really spoils the look after you make the change.
