[mountaineer]

"These women are in such a difficult position. Nobody would want to be in their shoes," says Katherine Rachlin, a clinical psychologist and gender specialist in Greenwich Village. ...

"At any stage, they can be beaten up by customers, by lovers, by family members," says Rachlin. "And some of them don't feel the need to disclose because they have a sense of rightness: They are female regardless of their body and regardless of what anyone else says. I'm overgeneralizing here, but for a transgender woman to tell a man that she is a male goes against everything in yourself. So they use their own moral compass, they decide how to handle the situation. There's not a right or wrong answer here."

[goldstategop]

There is right and wrong. Perverts make me want to throw up!

[Zavien Doombringer]

"These women are in such a difficult position. - You cannot change chromosomes from an xy to an xx, men are men, women are women. never the 2 will change. Nobody would want to be in their shoes," </i. - That's for sure, they need help badly says Katherine Rachlin, a clinical psychologist and gender specialist in Greenwich Village. ...

There's not a right or wrong answer here.

Yes, there is! God is the creator of absolutes. Man/Woman, Right/Wrong...To think otherwise makes a mockery out of God.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Here's an important cause: making life easier for transgender prostitutes.

Apparently men who pay for sex with streetwalkers at 3 AM get extremely angry when they learn that that the person who just performed a sex act on them was not actually a woman.

Obviosly what we need is federal funds for a sensitivity training class for johns, so that they'll be more accepting of being duped by transgender prostitutes.

[Zavien Doombringer]

You forgot the obligatory photo!

[hellinahandcart]

They are female regardless of their body and regardless of what anyone else says.

In other words, they're completely delusional.

But now the push is on to force everyone to play "Let's Pretend" right along with these freaks. Sorry, I am not playing.

[muir_redwoods]

This person's decision to support herself through criminal activity is what exposes her to physical risk. She should change that now.

I'm sure this thread will provoke a lot of chest-thumping about perverts and gays but it needs to be recognized that some people are not clearly male or female at birth. Sometimes the confusion is physical structure, sometimes it is psychological but it is real, rare but real. We are not all neatly divided into two groups. Once you actually know someone who is in this middle state and come to understand their situation you realize how lucky you are to be "normal".

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[mhking]

Let's see - we're talking about a two-fer: prostitution and transgenderism. Mix the two and you're a walking target.

Just damn.

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[bird4four4]

because they have a sense of rightness
They are female regardless of their body
they use their own moral compass
There's not a right or wrong answer

These people are very confused, and need to seek counselling

[Dante3]

Just because a man dressed up as a woman or mutilates his body does NOT make him a woman. This is nonsense. I bet you if these men lived under the Taliban where they can't dress up as sluts they would not have an urge to declare they are female.

[expatguy]

bump

[Sender]

Nobody would want to be in their shoes

And it's so hard to find a nice pump in size 12 triple-E.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"At any stage, they can be beaten up by customers, by lovers, by family members," says Rachlin. "And some of them don't feel the need to disclose because they have a sense of rightness: They are female regardless of their body and regardless of what anyone else says. I'm overgeneralizing here, but for a transgender woman to tell a man that she is a male goes against everything in yourself. So they use their own moral compass, they decide how to handle the situation. There's not a right or wrong answer here."

Must be the pay and working conditions that draw them in.

[Keyes2000mt]

Look, guys who go for prostitutes are not the most moral people in the world. To make a living that way is asking for trouble whether you're "real" or not.

[Clint N. Suhks]

For Transgenders, Meaner Streets

It should read “For Prostitutes”

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[dixie sass]

I'm sorry, but I can find nothing in this story that would make me feel sorry these people. They, male or female, have chosen their own life-style or as my Momma use to say "They made their own beds, now they have to lie in it."

The possibilities for education and a job that is not demeaning are there. Why they won't take advantage of it, I don't know.

No, I pity them - not feel sorry for them.