Ladyboys are male transsexuals.

Originally posted 2017-10-29 15:07:12.

Many people don’t quite understand my position on transsexualism, which is fair enough because I have never stated what that position might be. I have been asked why I talk so much about transsexualism here, in general writing  and on my YouTube Channel. So here we go.

My background is in photography and journalism. I had a scientific education but was always propelled towards practicality, so I studied things that could make money, like photography and journalism (duuh.)  I did consider reading English but then discovered that this was a pathway into academic insanity and it is not  a reliable route into journalism (if you want to be a journalist, study a subject of public interest, like politics, economics, law, medicine…not English. They all assume literacy and if you can’t write to the style of the New York Times, with a reading age of 13, you are too challenged to be a journo.)

I have always been interested in human sexuality, since the time I was at Art School. This was because there, I was exposed to a myriad of different ones. People today forget how open the culture, at least in Scotland, was in the 1980s. New Romance was the big thing, everybody wore mascara and it was rightly called the ‘gayest era ever.’

 

I graduated, went to work, got married, pursued a career, made a lot of money, became a dad four times and did the usual things one does as the head of a family. But I always remained interested in sexuality and read much about it.

I became interested in the subject of transsexualism. I realised that I found transsexuals interesting, which surprised me. Thanks to the internet, it was now possible to communicate with others who shared this. There actually seemed to be rather a lot of them and they mostly seemed fairly normal.  Even the USicans.

I began conversing online with a number of transsexuals, from different parts of the globe. This led to much discussion and, of course, a lot more reading.

Art School

I had been in contact with male transsexuals in Art School and they were all — universally — small, lightly built, cute, pretty, incredibly feminine and extremely retiring. It was a struggle to get them to talk at all and they were clearly very apprehensive, although they were in no way hostile.

Amongst my new friends, two decades later, there were also girls like this, but also another type. These were, going by their pictures, much bigger, heavily built, often muscular.

By this time I had really left print journalism; the writing was on the wall and I have always had a nose for these things. I was working in corporate media and PR, which is pretty lucrative and left me a lot of time. I began to research and to write books.

Naturally,  transsexualism became a part of my researches, a big part. This eventually crystallised into The Warm Pink Jelly Express Train, a fictional but fact based book.

 

 

 

The dichotomy I was becoming more and more aware of amongst trans women troubled me. It just did not seem to work that these were on a scale. They looked like two completely different types.

Then I discovered Mike Bailey’s book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. The first time I read it I was discouraged. I could respond to much of the book but there was something about it that pushed me away and at the time I could not really figure out what that might be.

That book caused a furore and I became aware of many sources hostile to it, notably sites run by Lynn Conway, Andrea James and others. These, of course, were diametrically opposed to Bailey. I looked at Bailey’s major source, Blanchard, and there found reasoned and well-constructed scientific papers that dealt with the matter in very detached terms, relying on statistics. Conway, James et al, were the opposite; unsupported claims, ad hominem attacks, blatant falsehoods.

Both types of transsexualism

The problem was that if Blanchard were right, then the transsexuals I had been in touch with should represent both types of transsexualism. I noted how Roberta Close, a famous Brazilian transsexual, refused to have anything to do with the ‘travestis’. And then Sam Winter in Hong Kong published data suggesting that transsexuals in Asia were only of one type. So on one hand I had Blanchard, reasoned and articulate, and Bailey, and on the other, I had a number of histrionic agitators but with, by my reading, also scientists on their side. I came to the tentative conclusion that if Blanchard were right this was a Western phenomenon, and the greater likelihood seemed that he was somehow wrong.

To be honest, business and personal issues in other parts of my life began to restrict my time for this area.

My mother died in 2005 and my wife and I separated in 2009. Shaken to the core, and still dealing with the consequences, I took a year out to do a Masters degree– something I had always intended to do, but life had got  in the way. Although I was shocked by what I witnessed in University, of which more later as they say, it did give me the breathing space I needed.

After graduation I made big changes. I moved to France; I sold my yacht; and I went to the Philippines.

Dating

After my separation I had dated a couple of women but nothing came of it. My first visit to the Phils was in response to having met a ladyboy online. I was not to know where this was to lead me.

I completed the book I had researched, The Warm Pink Jelly Express Train and began researching others. The most relevant discovery I made here is that transsexuals have a long history. They were recorded in Sumer, in Phrygia, in Greece, Rome … all over the ancient world and, importantly, India.

I have travelled there. In north India there is a class called hijra (actually an Arabic word). These are male priestesses of the goddess. In the north of India the most popular of these is Bahachura Mata, who is an avatar of the Great Goddess Shakti.

I had encountered these hijras. Everybody who travels off the tourist track in India has. They sell blessings at street-corners and street junctions. I remembered them and then Bailey: small, delicate. lightly built, feminine, pretty…Well there was a mismatch right away. Hijras rarely fall into that category. In the main they are indistinguishable from the men around them, except they wear women’s clothes. Most are certainly not much in the way of objects of sexual desire.

As I said, I travelled to meet a ladyboy in the Philippines called Crissy. She surprised me. She was tall, not lightly built, but graceful and beautiful.  She had trained as a dancer and moved like one, and she had been taking hormones for years. This had softened her skin and smoothed her features. However she wasn’t small or light, either, although she was pretty and feminine .

I can be slow sometimes but not usually. I was ‘big with book’ as Lawrence Durrell puts it, so I filed these things for later.

No Eureka moment

I continued to visit the Philippines and began to make more ladyboy friends.  Some were like Crissy and others– wait for it — were small, pretty and feminine. At first I didn’t even see them. But as my eye became attuned, I did. I visited Thailand and saw the same thing: what I had thought were  prettier than average women, were actually ladyboys, or in Thailand, kathoeys; but they were totally different from the tall, obvious ones. And these were all remarkably alike; they could almost have been related, whereas the other ladyboys were disparate.

They were tall, they were short, they were somewhat feminine, they were even masculine; some did not seem to date men at all whereas others did; some even had girlfriends. Some were indeed attractive, though rarely pretty, others were not. Some were tall, some were stocky. But they were all bulkier than this other type, which I was only now beginning to see.

Blanchard was confirmed. There were two types of trans in SE Asia.  There was one type that was clearly defined and who, within their group, were all remarkably similar, and another type that was disparate.

 

 

 

Transsexualism Typology

To recap,  male transsexuals are strongly attracted to men. They like older, very masculine ones; they have no interest at all in gay men, indeed they reject them as partners; they look like girls; their mannerisms are naturally girly; and they sound like girls, even without vocal training. These individuals seek to be recipient partners in sex and they want men who can dominate them, to whom they can surrender completely. They are Beauty pursuing her Beast.

They are in direct competition with natal women for straight men, whom they know are attracted to feminine girls. So what do you think they might do? They function better in society as girls and this  makes them more attractive to their own sexual targets, straight men. So they live as girls.

‘Early’ and ‘late’ onset

All transsexuals, baklas, kathoeys — there are at least a hundred terms, which is why ladyboy is used, it’s a portmanteau — consider themselves and are considered by the society around them to be gays. This is accurate in the sense used outside the West: they are unmasculine males who are more or less feminised and seek relationships with men, usually as the submissive partner.

My position on transsexualism in the West

Male transsexuals in the West have always suffered. They are effectively, as Dr James Cantor put it ‘fully formed homosexuals’ and as a result suffer at the hands of a homophobic mainstream society as well as  ‘LGBT’ activists, who tell them they should be ‘men’ when that is clearly an infringement of their personal freedoms. Why would a person who wishes to attract masculine men wish to appear to be masculine? It makes no sense. They are abused by Western  fetishistic transvestites, who wish they did not exist, because they are homophobic and dread the thought of men ‘hitting on them.’

I support ladyboys. They are the one group in society that can genuinely claim to be discriminated against by everyone and yet the least likely to complain.  I do not believe that living as a gay ‘man’ is necessarily a ‘better outcome’ for an homosexual; I know far too many happy, well adjusted ladyboys to ever agree with that — and far too many neurotic, ill-adjusted gay ‘men’. But I recognise that this is not my choice, rather the individual’s.

A threat to no one

Any of the rest of you, who attack ladyboys, for whatever reason, or try to manipulate them or their parents for your nefarious political ends, make yourselves my enemy. That is my position. Ladyboys are a threat to no one. They do not predate on vulnerable women or children. They are the innocents in this, yet are constantly abused by others, to serve political ends that do not benefit them at all.

 

It is not for ‘trans-activists’ to even comment on the decisions ladyboys make.  ‘Gay men’ (an oxymoron anyway) who long ago missed their chance to be the women their sexuality demands, should just shut up and keep their bitterness to themselves.  Ladyboys are not your political pawns. Leave them alone.