First, a correction: The only time I was screened before was when visiting Mrs. Six’s grandparents in Seoul, and that was because they screened everyone without exception.
I was flying Continental and Southwest the times I was screened. The first time it happened, I still had my old photo on my driver’s license. I hadn’t thought about it until the moment I went through security, and got nervous when I realized that this was the first time I’d be showing my DL for ID purposes since my transition. This made me nervous, and sure enough, I was pulled out of line to have my luggage searched and a pat down.
Mrs. Six says that what may be happening is that the screeners aren’t reacting to my DL so much as they are to the nervous vibe I’m putting out. I’m nervous because I keep getting screened, and I keep getting screened because I’m nervous, in additon to the sex on the DL not matching what the screeners see. That’s her theory, anyway. It’s hard to separate. Is it A or B or a combination of the two?
I did go get my picture changed on my DL shortly after the first incident–went down and told them I had lost my DL and needed a new one made.
Years ago, when I was a teenager, I was looking through TV Guide for something to watch. I saw that one of the basic cable channels had started showing Meatballs ten minutes earlier. I hadn’t seen it, but I wanted to see something funny, so I tuned in. My thought process as I watched it went something like this:
“This isn’t very funny. I mean, they’re not even trying. Maybe once Bill Murray shows up, it gets better. Where is he, anyway? Isn’t he, like, the star of this movie? Maybe if HOLY SHIT! That guy just got totally killed! What the hell?”
This is still the part of Kaitlyn’s situation that still bends my brain every time I think about it. I mean, I always knew that my state of residence didn’t legally recognize transexuals, but I’d never really considered the overall consequences of that. Because of this, she-despite being a woman under any reasonble definition-is:
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[li]allowed to marry a woman[/li][li]forbidden to marry a man[/li][li]listed as ‘male’ on her drivers license and other state records[/li][/ul]
On the subject of XYs who are given hormones to lactate and feed babies… check out Marge Piercy’s novel Woman on the Edge of Time. It’s a feminist utopian/dystopian story from the 1970s and includes gender bending as part of its feminist vision of the future. A woman is rescued from 1970s New York and brought to the future by an American Indian guide. He has long hair and wears a black leather jacket. They’re more than halfway through the novel before the woman finds out that he is a she. The 1970s woman is a Chicana, so when she sees the Indian, she thinks “cholo” and just assumes this must be a man because she misread the muted gender cues. Until they go skinny-dipping and she finds out otherwise.
She learns that in the commune of the future everybody shares sex roles equally. She freaks out when a burly, bearded guy unbuttons his lumberjack shirt to breastfeed a crying baby. He’d been assigned to childcare that day. At first she didn’t want to see a man taking over a role that had been exclusively for women. But they explain to her that the only way to put an end to gender oppression was complete equality in all sex roles.
Congratulations of making an end-run around Evil Same-Sex Marriage Laws!
Two questions (or groups of questions):
Way back on an earlier page you mentioned you had a gun in your purse. I can’t imagine it being strictly legal, even in Texas, to have a gun on school property. Or am I wrong? Or am I right, but it is OK in a wink-wink sorta way? Or would you rather not comment on this?
Your Principal seems like the perfect guy to have for your first few weeks “out” in a new school, his handling of ignorance issues is really incredible, from what you have written. Was his character a deciding factor in going to this particular school, or did you just luck out?
I said hello to Opal Saturday.
I would think after a little while the issue of being a trans-gendered lesbian may pale in the face of you being from a COMMUNIST COUNTRY! AAAAHHHH! They must have had MONTHS to indoctrinate you into their evil ways before sending you out on this covert mission!
I was joking. The chances of my needing a weapon for self defense at 4:30 in a school parking lot are negligible.
Having a gun on school property is indeed against the law where I live, and if I were to actually carry one, that would be grounds to fire me. I don’t carry a gun with me anywhere.
I do have some self defense items that are perfectly legal and more practical for my situation.
Mr. P at Newschool is a relative of Mr. P at Oldschool. Old Mr. P gave new Mr. P a heads up, and new Mr. P specifically asked for me to take over the pregnant teachers class when she left.
You’ve figured it out. I’m actually a sleeper agent for the axis of evil. Or possibly the Cylons.
That’s the part I was wondering about. If you get officail legal status as a woman (which will happen, or am I wrong about that?) does some government goon show up at your house and confiscate your marriage licence?
Or do you get to be the first legally married same sex couple in Texas (how cool it that :D))?
I will in the forseeable future be all girl in the old fashioned sense of the word, so you’re not wrong about that part. But that still won’t make me legally female in the state of Texas. Texas doesn’t recognize the legality of sex changes, so no matter what I do, I’ll still be male to them.
A Texas court recently refused to acknowledge the legality of a MTF transsexual widow who had lost her husband and was trying to sue.
This article discusses how same sex marriage laws affect transsexual couples.
Because of how the laws work, for a transsexual, same sex marriage is legal in Texas, but heterosexual marriage isn’t. This little loophole has, according the article linked above, actually attracted same sex transsexual couples to the state to get married.
I’m a bit confused about something…but I can imagine the movie didn’t explore it.
This and this doesn’t look like it could be the same person we see with a severed head at the end…you know, what with guys not naturally growing breasts and all…
Won’t be the first. My old friend Beth has been in a Texas same-sex marriage now for at least eight years now, and I’m reasonably certain she wasn’t the first.
[spoiler]That’s Judy, one of the victims who torments Angela.
But you’re right, the person in the ending shot doesn’t look anything like Felissa Rose, who played Angela. That’s because it isn’t. Obviously, they couldn’t do a nude shot of a 15 year old girl, and it wouldn’t have worked anyway, because Angela was always a boy in drag anyway.
The last shot is a cheat. That’s a college age young man with Felissa Rose’s head optically added to the body, and looks like it. It’s just like the shots of the killer’s hands–big, hairy man hands that are in no way similar to what you can clearly see on Angela at various points in the movie.[/spoiler]
Bit of trivia: The actress who played Angela in the two sequels, Pamela Springsteen, is Bruce Springsteen’s sister. She retired from acting, or couldn’t get work, and now takes publicity stills on movie sets.
Bleah. Does this mean your driver’s license will always say you’re male? Bleah. At least you’ll eventually be able to get your passport changed and use that instead most of the time.
[spoiler]Wait, were both of those pictures I posted links to of Judy, or just one of them? I know the pictures aren’t terribly large or clear, but both girls look fairly similar.
So does Angela just not have breasts throughout the movie? And do they ever delve into “Angela’s” mind, to show her reaction to being reared as a girl?[/spoiler]
Man, that’s a weird movie. I’ve got to see it, if only for the cheese factor.
It varies from state to state. KellyM posted eary the the first thread (linked below) about how the various states and federal govt. differ on the legal recognition of a change of sex.
Well, I guess I should click the sig box to show the links I referred to.
Othersider:
[spoiler]Yeah, those are both Judy. Angela was flat chested (the actress who played her wore a minimizing bra), but had unmistakably feminine facial features and hands, which, though certainly possible, would be highly unlikely for a boy merely raised as a girl, but not given any medical treatment.
They get into her mind a little bit. The raised as the wrong sex thing is supposed to be the root of her homicidal rage. Analyzing it beyond that is giving the writer/director, Robert Hiltzik, way too much credit. The whole gender confusion thing is just a set up for the twist ending, nothing more.[/spoiler]
I really don’t remember–it’s been something like a year since I’ve seen it. I think she always bathed alone, which is one of the reasons the other kids picked on her, or it just wasn’t addressed. If you’d like, I can dig out my DVD and watch it this Friday while Mrs. Six is at a birthday party. We could start a Cafe Society thread to discuss it.
