[Pierre]

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it on here before, but I was around all this before it became fashionable. In 1990 I shared a house with a “trans-sexual”….(and two other men). Michael, who was pre-op and going through the process.

It was simple, he would dress as a man and I would call him Michael. On the days he dressed in women’s cloths, I would call him Michelle.

It was fine, it was all very amenable but he was a bit highly strung…to be polite.

He once came home in tears because he was thrown out of a night club for being in the women’s toilets……….can you imagine if that happened now.

The problem then, is the problem now. He looked and acted like a very camp gay man….and not a woman.

Back in the day it was clear.

We had Trans-sexuals, men who wanted to be women and will do the surgery to get there.

And Trans-vestites , men that wanted to be their mother.

Drag queens, gay men for which just being camp wasn’t enough.

And Auto gyno-Philes (to be fair they weren’t called that then). Men that want to dress in women’s clothing because they get a sexual kick out of it and by people looking at them, and there’s nothing stopping them getting a sexual kick assaulting women.

And now all these variants are now just called “Trans”, and we’re expected to treat them all the same.

This is the problem.

A trans-sexual just wanting to live their lives are most likely not a danger to women or women’s spaces. I wouldn’t say the same for some AGP’s

The trans in women’s sports, could come under a whole new category, I think the term is “cheat”