A friend of mine is entered in a beauty contest, in Thailand

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Oooh! you said the word, now frogs will fall from the sky!

Rubbish you have to say it three times in a row and click your heels together.

Can be tricky though, the whole he she thing.

Like, a person I know (born male) has boobs, dresses like a girl, blah blah, pre-op, and they refer to themselves as him. I actually first met him as a girl, and I thought he was a girl, and like, I dunno, the whole first meeting thing sort of imprinted woman in my head.

Now, he, a trany, corrects me, if I get the wrong pronoun. I sort of like urg...like I am speaking german, and I have to double take to get the gender right.

I dunno. He is sort of annoying though, so he might just be being a ****.

Shrug.

"Its" probably not cool though alright.

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Originally Posted by philipMac

Can be tricky though, the whole he she thing.

Like, a person I know (born male) has boobs, dresses like a girl, blah blah, pre-op, and they refer to themselves as him. I actually first met him as a girl, and I thought he was a girl, and like, I dunno, the whole first meeting thing sort of imprinted woman in my head.

Now, he, a trany, corrects me, if I get the wrong pronoun. I sort of like urg...like I am speaking german, and I have to double take to get the gender right.

I dunno. He is sort of annoying though, so he might just be being a d*ck.

Shrug.

"Its" probably not cool though alright.

Sounds like he's just being difficult. Easy way, boobs, girlish hair and wearing anything remotely feminine, then she, her and Ma'am are just fine. If some metrosexual dude gets upset at being she and Ma'amed all over the place then it's too bad.
I know female-to-male people too and they get the same sh*t, although mostly from women. Whereas male-to-female transgendered folk get more grief from men. It's almost like being acussed of being a gender traitor.

For a minute there I thought my lunchtime fry was about to make a reappearance

Originally Posted by UlsterSV

For a minute there I thought my lunchtime fry was about to make a reappearance

You're such a wuss.

So are the people in this contest actually surgically changed into girls or are they men dressed up as women?

Originally Posted by Warthog

So are the people in this contest actually surgically changed into girls or are they men dressed up as women?

The rules say that as long as they were actually born male they can enter. So some of them will have completed gender re-assignment surgery. Looking at them I'd say most of them will have had cosmetic surgery at some time.

So what exactly is being judged then; most like a woman, most attractive to a straight man, prettiest?