Hello again, everyone
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Many thanks for all the feedback folks and to you, Milfmog, for being so kind as to post some info about, and a link to the third gender petition. That was a very pleasant surprise for me
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! Thank you to all who have signed it...Last count...only 22 more signatures to get now before we arrive at the 200 figure - which means that the government will be obliged to issue an email response to every signatory which will tell us whether or not they are going to accomodate any of the suggestions proposed.
I realise, of course, that many people here are not transgendered, but I would like to think that if, at least, some laws were passed to prevent employers, organisations and schools from having the power to compel employees and students to conform to gendered dress codes, then this would benefit everyone - male, female or otherwise gendered etc. Unfortunately, there's no shortage of those who laugh at the very idea of there being people who don't really feel completely male or female and those people who laugh at us for identifying as a kind of third gender, are usually the same people who also laugh at men who wear skirts etc. I think that although we may be challenging gendered dress code tyranny for different reasons it's so positive that we can find some common ground here. I think that the more of us who challenge the 'status quo' in these matters - the better, because the more of us there are; the more the mocking laughter is going to die down and that's when the 'mainstream' (whatever that is) will start to listen to us and begin to take us seriously.
Those who think 'outside the box' are often greeted with suspicion and disbelief at first. Being a pioneer of anything is always gonna be tough
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But by persevering we may well get there with the desirable end result being beneficial to society as a whole. New ideas and those who dare to propose them are always met with scorn at first. Just look at the trouble women like Amelia Bloomer and the Dress Refom League encountered back in the mid-nineteenth century when they wanted to reform female dress codes. Now you don't have to wear a crinoline anymore...unless, of course, you choose to do so...but, importantly, the accent is on the word 'choice'!
So...yeah - let's all keep going on even when we feel so many people are laughing at us!!!
Oh...sorry I've gone on a bit. Waffling again
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Thank you, Cessna152towser for following the link about my encounter with charliegrrl. I've done a little searching on the Net and I discovered that her blog and activities were featured in a Guardian report last year which appears on the Guardian Unlimited website. Apparently, she is a Lancaster University Graduate in her late twenties/early thirties who attracted a lot of media attention a few years ago by staging a protest carrying around a life-size inflatable doll of former PM, Tony Blair
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I'm weird
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Thanks for kindly following this through with me and thank you for sharing your life journey with me, too. You must have gone through such a difficult time when your girlfriend left you - you must have felt such pain. Not many people have the bravery to be as honest and critical of themselves as you, Cessna. Let's face it; we're learning all the time. I look back at the way I was even a few day's ago and cringe
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Oh well...sorry for going on so much. All the very best to you all and thank you for being so welcoming and supportive. It's gonna be great here
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Big hugs
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