rec!

[phaballa]

Okay, we need to discuss the awesomeness that is llamabitchyo's new fic, The Tailor and the Beautiful Men of Somewhat Normal Stature. Actually, no, I think I will just quote the first two paragraphs and let you learn of the awesomeness yourselves:

There was once a young tailor, who worked very hard and had a... truly unique sense of fashion, but still could

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[llamabitchyo]

*blushes*

Thank you for the rec. I'd be really embarassed right now, but I do love that first paragraph.

And thanks for the awesome transgender link.

[phaballa]

It's an awesome fic and you deserve mountains of praise for being so awesome!!

[crazylilly]

Thank you for the transgender-link. I once saw a report about a boy now girl on TV here. He told his parents he is a girl when he was 5 years old. From the second grade (8 years old) she lived as a girl. And she to got those medicamentation.
And one of the boys of a friend of mine is insisting he is not a boy. He is 3 years old now. And his parents don't think anything about it - at all. But he is behaving totally like a girl, not a boy. It could be nothing. But he always makes me think of the girl in the report.

[phaballa]

It was such a good story. They're doing a whole series, so I might go back and download the episodes from the beginning of the week to hear the other stuff about transgender kids. They make a lot of good points about the nature of gender and how it can't be only defined biologically.

I agree

[crazylilly]

I do think that gender is more mental/emotional than physical, but that it is a tragedy for the child who finds his/her/self in a body alien to gender identification. I think it may be necessary to see the first few years through in physical gender, but something should definately be done before puberty if necessary.

Oh! I don't have live journal; My Name is Dreamway. You can find me on Myspace.

Re: I agree

[phaballa]

Hi, and thank you for your comment! In the radio piece, there's actually a comment from Violet's sister saying that she tries to think about how she would feel if she were growing up in a boy's body, and how disgusting and alien that would be to her. I think that's a really good way to look at it.