How will TS Women acceptance change in the next 10 years?

[TSPornFan]

We know that not a lot of people are accepting towards transsexuals. Most people are very uneducated about transsexuals and why they change their sex and gender. The media plays a large part into these problems. Shows like Jerry Springer shades a negative light on transsexuals.

We can't expect change over night. Change is a long lasting progress. How do you think the public's acceptance will change over the next 10 years? Do you think it will get worse or do you think things will slowly improve?

[timid1]

I honestly think that the younger generation are more open, educated , accepting, embracing of "differences" and "diversity"in us as humans. Therefore I believe attitudes will improve hugely as the years go by. Maybe not quick enough, but Rome wasn't built in a day as the saying goes. Hopefully the world will develop into a more loving place? Whereby we can embrace each others differences , tastes etc with love and understanding?
Collectively , we are the medias paymasters , as attitudes and understanding change and improve among the general public, so will the medias stance on the issue..... hopefully much sooner than the next ten years?

[Rusty Eldora]

I would guess that a decade ago, more than 98% of the US population didn't think Shemales really existed. They were aware of TV's and Cross Dressers but the consensus is that they were unbalanced. I was in a theater group (all guys) and the new members usually got assigned the female roles, most guys there just cringed with the thought - me too.

Even on an escort review site, I think it was 4 years ago someone posted a "Who's the guy" link to ladyboys. They were extremely passable, the general consensus was, wow I could end up picking up a Tgirl at the bar by accident. I didn't say it then but I found I wanted to pick one up.

It will be gradual, I think it takes people knowing someone in a group or class to understand that hey, they are normal.

[Rabbiteyes]

I think as long as sites like this are how trans people are presented...there won't be acceptance.

Being presented as objects? Sex fetishes? Prostitutes?

Once trans people start coming out into the open and acting "normal"... THAT is where acceptance starts to move forward.

The population needs to see trans people are just PEOPLE, that go to the grocery store...that work... that live normally.... and, yes, love too.

Right now, most people think of trans people as perverts. Men will approach them differently (asking about what is in their pants, how they want to have sex). Normal people are uncomfortable around us because they think we want to rape them. Or they just see us as crazy playing some horribly porn stereotyped version of a "woman".

Yea, the first part of acceptance is going to need to come from the trans community itself. Holding itself out as more than just sexual objects for men to jerk off to.

Along side that, the men who claim to love trans people could stop degrading trans people in general. When talking to one for the first time, how about treating them like a person? And not asking how hung they are, or how they want to do you.

Ehh, the entire battle of trans acceptance is on the backs of "normal" trans people who are brave enough to live openly and let society see them and judge them. The ones who aren't dressing like 5 dollar hookers, but instead dress in socially acceptable ways. And, they are fighting AGAINST all of the stereotypes created by trans people who choose to go over the top and completely fetishize / sell themselves to horny guys who want to treat them like trash (even being afraid to be seen with them).

How many jokes are there about killing tranny hookers? I have lost count.

[nysprod]

I honestly think that the younger generation are more open, educated , accepting, embracing of "differences" and "diversity"in us as humans.

As much as I would like this to be true, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned it isn't. Yes, there are more laws now regarding equality but as far as people's attitudes are concerned, nothing has changed.

[sosed]

Long ago in the land of Sumer, Asushunamir was created by Enki to rescue Queen Inanna from the “Land of No Return.”

Inanna was and is the Queen of Heaven — Great Goddess to all. She was given great gifts by Enki the Wise – wisdom, justice, love, the sacred women, and the fruit of the vine. She held these gifts to her heart and shared them with the people of the earth.

It came to pass that Inanna descended into the underworld to see her sister Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Underworld, who was mourning the death of her husband.

Inanna’s presence in the Underworld angered Ereshkigal, and she imprisoned Inanna and refused to give her the water of life and bread of life that would allow Inanna to return to the land of the living. Because Inanna lay dying in a cell in the underworld, the world of the living ceased to thrive with life.

When Enki was told of these events, he fashioned from the dirt beneath his fingernails a being of light called, Asushunamir to rescue the Great Goddess. Asushunamir, being of light, whose face is radiant, beautiful in countenance, clothed in the stars, male and female, companion to Inanna.

Enki told Asushunamir that she/he must give the water of life and the bread of life to Inanna to restore her life.

Asushunamir knew the spell of Ereshkigal could not possess her/him.
When she/he arrived in the underworld, Ereshkigal was charmed by Asushunamir’s beauty, moved by his/her voice, amused by his/her dance. Ereshkigal called for a great feast to be held in his/her honor; the best wine, the finest meats, the most sumptuous of fruit. Ereshkigal dreamed of taking this beautiful being to her bed, and of keeping her/him forever with her in the Land of the Dead.

But, Asushunamir was careful to pour the wine upon the floor and to eat no food prepared by the servants of Ereshkigal. For he/she knew to eat or drink in the land of the dead is to forever remain there.

When the Queen of the Dead became drunk from the wine, Asushunamir asked if she/he might taste the water of life and the bread of life, kept locked in the cellar. This was the water of which Enki had spoken when Asushunamir came into the world, the water with which one must be sprinkled to pass through the seven gates of Irkalla, the water to renew one’s life on earth.

Ereshkigal cried out, “Namtar, bring the jug with the water of life. I shall grant the wish of this charming creature.”

Later, when Ereshkigal fell into a deep sleep, Asushunamir made his/her way to the dark cell where Inanna, captive, lay dying. She/he sprinkled Inanna with the water of life and placed a piece of the bread of life to her lips. Inanna began to breath easily as a child might breathe and then awakened.

Beautiful and once more flowing with the energy of life, Inanna quickly made her way through the seven gates of Irkalla, ascending to earth, causing the flowers to grow and restoring the trees to green. People returned to their planting, their weaving, their making of wine, their love making, and a great feast was held in honor of the return of Inanna.

Asushunamir was not as fortunate. Ereshkigal awoke as she/he was approaching the seventh gate, and neither his/her beauty, nor his/her charm, nor his/her dancing or songs, could extinguish the passion that had turned to hate.

“The food of the gutter shall thou eat,” cried Ereshkigal, her every word a curse.

“The water of the sewer shall be your drink. In the shadows you shall abide, despised and hated by even your own kind.” Having pronounced the curse, Ereshkigal banished Asushunamir.

When Inanna learned of the curse placed upon Asushunamir, she wept and spoke softly that no one might hear. “The power of Ereshkigal is great. No one dares to defy her. Yet I may soften her curse upon you, as spring arrives to banish winter. Those who are like you, my assinnu and kalum and kugarru and kalaturru, lovers of men, kin to my sacred women, shall be strangers in their own homes. Their families will keep them in the shadows and will leave them nothing. The drunken shall smite them, and the mighty shall imprison them. But if you remember me, how you were born from the light of the stars to save me, and through me the earth, from darkness and death, then I shall harbor you and your kind. You shall be my favored children, and I shall make you my priestesses. I shall grant you the gift of prophecy, the wisdom of the earth and the moon and all that they govern, and you shall banish illness from my children, even as you have stolen me from the clutches of Ereshkigal.”

“And when you dress in my robes, I shall dance in your feet and sing in your throats. No man shall be able to resist your enchantments.” “When the earthen jug is brought from Irkalla, lions shall leap in the deserts, and you shall be freed from the spell of Ereshkigal. Once more you will be called Asushunamir, a being clothed in light. Your kind shall be called Those Whose Faces Are Brilliant, Those Who Have Come to Renew the Light, The Blessed of Inanna.”

An interesting ancient Sumer legend. You are cursed and blessed. You only have to remember your goddess.

[TheGuard]

I think it really depends on if the media has a more positive image of transwomen out there in the next ten years. I think a large part of acceptance to homosexuality came from a better portrayal on TV, movies etc.

[LittleGuy]

They're just like gg but worse. Nothing will change.

[hondarobot]

Well, if you're wondering what Grumpy cat thinks, he refuses to accept anything. There's really not much use talking to him, honestly.

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