The unfortunate thing is that it is legal. Religious institutions try to fight for the right to discriminate against anyone they please and this is apparent in any legislation in the here and now trying to give gays equal rights.

FYI: Sources have informed me that Jennifer Usher ("Just Jennifer", above) is staying in the Mission Hotel, a SRO homeless housing project in San Francisco. Even if she wanted to, it is highly doubtful that she would be able to afford a trip out to Washington DC to the Library of Congress.

Yeah, aren't Meta tags about as relevant and useful today as dial-up BBS are?

Furthermore, putting down non-op transsexual women denies their womanhood for a variety of reasons, some of which involve their medical histories. Some of these people might not be able to get sex reassignment surgery due to a number of medical factors. And yet, you want to keep them trapped in a facade of an identity, denying them who they truly are. How dare you! This is why I honestly think that it's not the TG-identified TSs that are harmful or dangerous for TS rights, but rather, TS people who cannot seem to rise above their own prejudices, their own privilege and see these people for who they are. They (who I feel can be accurately referred to as the "transsexual transphobes") justify the prejudices of the cisgender transphobes.

So, let me get this straight, Purple Girl... if TS people fix their bodies to run from pain, then why did I have to have Percocet last year in order to get to sleep before I could get my broken tooth removed? Shouldn't our bodies naturally produce it? :p

All kidding aside, I want to say that you're full of shit. How the hell are transsexual people more "main stream" than transgender people? And since you want to restrict the transsexual community to people who have had the surgery, would you say that I became a woman the moment I woke up from the anesthesia in Thailand? If you would, I would disagree as I charge that I have been a woman all my life, surgery having nothing to do with it - transition having nothing to do with it. Mentally stable people transition because they have a gender identity that is at odds with their physiological sex, not because they want to "become women".

I couldn't be stealth even if I tried. The thing is that I'm just too proud of myself for what I have accomplished and through my own means and methods. I have been able to successfully (or somewhat successfully) complete all of the medical aspects of transition without having to step into a therapist's office. I made this choice because (1) it is insulting to assume that I need therapy just because I am trans and (2) it is insulting to assume that because I'm trans, I can't make my own decision, so I need the permission of two other people in order to get the necessary medical care that I need. I know only one other medical procedure that is so needlessly and illogically restricted and that would be abortion.

Thanks for continuing to enable the fraud and abuses that Chogyam Trungpa perpetrated and/or supported. It really shows how Elephant Journal is drinking the Shambhala kool-aid.

*sigh* I had such respect for Buddhism and yet, even the Buddhists can't keep the crazy transphobes out.

It looks like the prices and credit card stickers are current for the order window... Older ones would say "Discover/Novus", eh?

This is a clear violation of legal procedure. I honestly think that this case may go all the way to the Supreme Court simply because I do not have faith in Texas justice.