Goals and intended audience
Our purpose in making this website is to make the voices of transkids,
homosexual transsexuals, directly accessable. We prefer to speak about
our lives and issues ourselves and we are not helped by having our
lives and issues represented and re-interpretted by non-homosexual
transsexuals whose histories, motivations, etiology and personal
understanding of their transsexuality is different from our own. In
the controversy following the publication of J. Michael Bailey's
The Man Who Would Be Queen there has been an exclusive focus on
the reactions of autogynephilic transsexuals to the concept of
autogynephilia. It's only appropriate for us to represent our own
vantage point and perspective rather than continuing to allow
autogynephilic transsexuals to speak for us. Our own voices need to be
added to the discussion of transsexuality.
Transkids.us is intended to provide information about hsts with the
hope that it can help the sections of the medical community who we
need to deal with to better understand our issues and needs. There
simply is not a great deal of recognition or understanding of our
condition which makes it more difficult to get adequate treatment; our
problems are not the same as those of other types of mtfs which can
potentially have important treatment implications. Additionally we
want to use this website to represent ourselves to people with
academic or personal interest in homosexual transsexuality so that
they can see our perspective rather than only reading material written
from an outside vantage point.
Transkids.us is not about our social or personal identities or about
us as individuals. To the extent that we do describe ourselves and
our characteristics as a group, it is for the purpose of educating the
medical and academic communities in terms which we hope will be
helpful in understanding why our population will benefit by being
clinically differentiated from the autogynephilic transsexuals, the
population who are understood to be transsexuals in our society.
Also, the intended audience of our website is not the autogynephilic
transsexuals who oppose the further medical understanding of our two
groups. Our writing is not intended to change their opinion nor do we
hope to improve any imagined position in the transsexual culture they
control and define. As we have explained on this website, we don't
currently participate in that culture and we do not wish to,
especially given that the frightening and threatening reaction to our
attempt here to present our point of view exceeded even our worst
expectations.
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