Tom Gabel comes out as trangendered

[Little_Miss_1565]

...though I wish she had said "screaming right in their fucking faaaaace," I wholeheartedly agree.

[cool 2 hate 681]

"Oh, and Fat Wreck will be releasing a special edition of Against Me as the Maternal Cowgirl sometime next spring! "

just like fat mike re releasing stuff over and over again for money

[Tijs]

I can understand how it's confusing. Someone's sex (like on their driver's license) is determined by what's between their legs - transgendered people can't have the M on their driver's license or birth certificate changed to an F until getting the vaginoplasty. However, someone's gender is determined by what's between their ears. By announcing her transition and by self-identifying as female, female pronouns are appropriate.

All that may be true, but as Tom says himself, eventually he will take the name Laura. So until that time, he's still a he.

[Isolated Fury]

This is really a dead a dumb issue of you ask me. Who cares. Not going to sleep with himher, so what's the big deal. Make your weewee a hoohoo. Go for it. All it's going to affect
Me
Is making
Me want to vomit. Big deal. Leave
The thing alone.

[KickHimWhenHe'sDown]

I guess you could say he stopped, took some time to think, and figured out what's important to her. WERK, GIRL.

I can't figure out how to properly arrange the right words into a sentence to respond to this, but I feel that I should.

Fat Mike's tweets are suddenly making so much more sense.

EDIT: I didn't realize that this had more than one page until I posted. I'll read the rest of the thread tomorrow.

[T-6005]

Once I was a man
Now not, and all you wonder
Is will the dick stay?

[Degstur Lolland]

Once I had a strap-on
Now not, and all you wonder
That the voice will stay

[Llamas]

This is really a dead a dumb issue of you ask me. Who cares. Not going to sleep with himher, so what's the big deal. Make your weewee a hoohoo. Go for it. All it's going to affect
Me
Is making
Me want to vomit. Big deal. Leave
The thing alone.

If you're not gonna sleep with her, then why does it make you wanna vomit? That's dumb.

And it's not a dumb issue, because there are almost no well-known or famous (she's not ultra famous, but enough) who are trans - having a well-known figure to relate to helps minorities a lot. It's similar to how blacks felt when Obama was elected, or how lesbians felt when Ellen came out. The singer of Against Me isn't anyone compared to Ellen or especially Obama, but it's still a step. The only trans person I can think of who is known is Chastity Bono, who's really only known because of his parents and because he's trans. Trans people will now have someone successful and talented representing them. It's definitely a big deal for anyone who is on the side of equality.

[Isolated Fury]

If you're not gonna sleep with her, then why does it make you wanna vomit? That's dumb.

At the time, imagining the surgical process by which it would happen kind of made my stomach turn. I can't watch surgery shows on TLC or anything as it is, so drunkenly picturing it wasn't helping much. I still don't really care. Make your wee-wee a hoo-hoo. To each his own. I'm sticking with my wee-wee.

[Llamas]

At the time, imagining the surgical process by which it would happen kind of made my stomach turn. I can't watch surgery shows on TLC or anything as it is, so drunkenly picturing it wasn't helping much. I still don't really care. Make your wee-wee a hoo-hoo. To each his own. I'm sticking with my wee-wee.

Haha, gotcha. Yeah I'm guessing nobody really wants to imagine that surgery. I dunno how the doctors do it, honestly.

You keep your wee wee. I like my hoo hoo very much. Wee wees are gross

Actually if I were to be born again, I'd be a guy for exactly one reason: no periods. Seriously. That is it. And I don't think transitioning helps that, cause otherwise I probably would've considered at one point. Hoo hoos are cool, but they'd be even cooler if they didn't bleed once a month. Periods suck.

Oh, and there's also the fact that there are more (and more good/interesting/intelligent) straight girls out there than lesbians. Bigger pool. Yep. In my next life, I'm coming back as a man.