About Transkids.us
We want to offer an alternative to all of the agp run websites on
transsexuality and present our own perspective as hsts which have been
entirely absent from the recent debate. We hope that by gaining more
recognition as a population that we can have a positive effect on the
medical communities response to Blanchard's position so that we can
get help and understanding more easily. Part of the problem with the
AGP communitys position is that it excludes us much in the same way
that they were initially excluded, and it takes our experience and
appropriates it into their community for their own purposes at our
expense. This takes advantage of us while at the same time erasing our
voices. This site, therefore is an attempt to start taking our
identities back from the agp ts community and to try to keep them from
continuing to speak for us to our own detriment.
We are not seeking to establish a social identity as "homosexual
transsexuals 'identity'", we want to integrate into society as
individuals in as normal a way as possible. The only social identity
we need is one that acknowleges that we are a unique population as
children and adolescents who will benefit from an informed, helpful
and humanistic parental and medical understanding which allows us to
reach maturity with a minimum of harm. Given who we are, the nature of
our development and our personal needs, this would be impossible to
achieve without a recognition of the reality of our situation as a
distinct condition rather then treating us as if we are part of the
other transsexual population. It's not fair to subordinate our
personal interest to the identity politics of the agp run transsexual
community.
In the past we have tried to make our issues and differences
recognized within the larger group of transsexuals and we have not
been able to achieve any understanding, tolerance or recognition at
all there. Late in the summer of 2004 we started talking about the
idea of making a website to present our views and in October 2004 we
started work writing and learning how to make web pages. Transkids.us
is the first website about hsts.
2013 Update:
In the past eight years, a number of the original writers of this website have moved on to other endeavors, as is fitting for young people to do. The site continues to be maintained by Kay Brown (aka: Cloudy) since Kiira Triea died in the fall of 2012.
Anyone wishing to comment upon or discuss the website or ask questions may
write to us at formertranskid@gmail.com - polite email will be answered in kind.
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