Some people may look like transgenders, but they’re not.  Being transgender is a reflection of the innermost soul;  expression of the True Self.  Faux Transgenders adopt a wrong-gender expression for some ulterior motive.  True transgenders adopt a right-gender expression in spite of all opposition.


FAUX TRANSGENDER #1:  A  MEANS TO AN END
In a world of rigid gender roles, sometimes people have to disguise themselves in the opposite sex to get what they want.  Women have pretended to be men to get into an all-male university.  Men have pretended to be women to escape military service.  Spies adopt opposite-gender expression to slip past enemy lines.

The best evidence for whether or not a person is transgender is What do they do after the smoke clears?--when they have their education or once the war’s over.   How do they behave when there's no ulterior motive?


FAUX TRANSGENDER #2:  FEMALE IMPERSONATORS
A female impersonator is an actor;  a full-blooded male who dresses and acts female in order to make money—as entertainment.    It’s an ACT.  It’s a JOB.  After the show, off comes the lipstick and eyeshadow;  on go pants and sweatshirts.  A female impersonator doesn’t believe they’re actually a woman any more than they believe they’re actually King of England if they do Shakespeare.

It takes great skill to play an opposite-gender role convincingly.

            ULTERIOR MOTIVE: Fame & fortune

FAUX TRANSGENDER #3:  DRAG QUEENS
Like female impersonators, Drag Queens are also ENTERTAINERS.  In fact, many female impersonators BEGAN as drag queens;  the line between the two groups can be blurred.   Strictly speaking Drag Queens are femme Gays who dress as CARICATURES of women:  they exaggerate everything that makes a woman a woman.  Gigantic breasts bounce on their chest;  their hair sweeps the ceiling.  They apply heavy extreme garish make-up sparkling with glitter and eyelashes that beat the air like fans.

Drag Queens are Gay.  Gays are attracted to MEN, not women.  Queens don't WANT to be mistaken for women, because that would put them outside Gay society.  So they overdo their look to be sure no one gets any wrong ideas.  To an extent, they're making fun of their (lack of?) status in a predominantly heterosexual society.   Tell a Drag Queen they don’t look remotely like a woman and they’re usually flattered.  

A FEMALE IMPERSONATOR WANTS YOU TO THINK THEY’RE WOMEN.

A DRAG QUEEN WANTS TO BE IDENTIFIABLE AS A DRAG QUEEN, not a woman.

Drag Queens form a fun wacky subculture in the world of Gays.

            ULTERIOR MOTIVE:  Entertainment


FAUX TRANSGENDER #4:  REBELS
A “Rebel” wants to make you mad.  What do you hate the most?  Transvestites?  Then they’ll dress like transvestites and taunt you;  they dare you to do anything about it.

It’s all about power.  You think you can control them with your laws and police and stereotypes.  So they do the opposite of what you want., in order to prove how powerless you actually are.  But what do they do when the cops leave to reload their tasers and water-cannons?  The rebels don sweats & jeans and join a rousing game of rugby.

            ULTERIOR MOTIVE:  Outrage


FAUX TRANSGENDER #5:  MASOCHISTS
A masochist WANTS to suffer.  They ENJOY humiliation.  What’s the most degrading situation a macho male masochist can imagine?

...Being forced to be a woman, of course.   Usually at the hands of a cruel dominatrix.

"Spank me, whip me;  but PLEEEASE don't make me into a woman, !  Anything but that!"

Macho male masochists aren’t transgenders.  They’re macho and male.  They definitely don’t think they’re actually female--that would be the worst situation imaginable.

            ULTERIOR MOTIVE:  Masochistic suffering


FAUX TRANSGENDER #6:  FETISHES
One medical study claimed that 65% of the male population was sexually aroused by wearing female garments, particularly panties and pantyhose.  It’s rumored that football great Joe Namath wore pantyhose beneath his uniform.  These were red-blooded males, with male personality, interests and values.

For instance, what is it about women's panties? 
             Frat parties seem always to include a “Panty Raid”.
             If a dorm raid comes up dry, used panties can always be purchased from porn stars.
             And then successful conquests can be memorialized with panties tacked to the bedroom wall.

But the panties are just as often worn—even worn thin. Just imagine having something that rubbed against HER genitals, now rubbing against HIS!       
            How incredibly arousing!

                        ...But it doesn't make him into a transsexual.

FAUX TRANSGENDER #7:   INTERSEXUALITY    
Intersexuals are another group vilified in the popular imagination.  Since both words contain the letter R, people often confuse the two groups, even though they're completely distinct and independent.  Transsexuality involves a biology that doesn't match innate Gender Identity.  Intersexuality involves biology alone.  Gender & Gender Identity aren't a consideration in diagnosing intersexuality.

Confusion regarding intersexuality results from Old Paradigm misuse of vague terminology.  If biology determines gender (it doesn't), then broken biology must determine a broken gender--ie transgender (in order for the Old Paradigm to hold water--it doesn't).  Unfortunately intersexuals are caught in the transsexual cross-fire.