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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It ain't a her. It has a penis. It ain't really a him because it has breasts and is outwardly a her. Maybe it ain't an "it," maybe it's a she-male. But to me, that ain't no "her." It's somewhere in the middle.
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You want pronoun confusion? Try hanging out with drag queens. One second you have she, the next he, and then if you are just talking about the person you have to switch back and forth depending upon whether you are talking about them as a drag queen or as they are every day. I cannot imagine what people who are overhearing my conversations Sunday morning at brunch think when I start talking about a fellow named Glen who becomes Glenda when he dresses up in drag.
Frankly it sort of makes my head hurt. I can't imagine what it does to people who don't hang around transgendered folk. I have been doing so long enough now that it comes more easily to me, but at first I was pretty much afraid to open my mouth for fear of insulting someone.
Unfortunately we don't have a third choice in pronouns, it is a shame we can't use em in real life. Generally what people do is call them what they present to be. In this case, female. And if the person is transgendered (as opposed to transexual) the person in her mind is female, though not yet physically completely so. So that makes some sense.
