A question from one of our male members:
"Are all four of those women transsexuals, or are you going for a "guess which one is a transsexual" thing? I'm just lost as to which was the intent. And is one of those women your sister?"
To answer the last part, no, none of those are my sister. She's twenty, a good decade and a half younger than the youngest one up there.
Those are all prominent transsexual women. Left to right they are:
Marci Bowers: Bowers is an OB/GYN practicing in Trinidad Colorado, where, along with doing all the stuff and OB/GYN does, she performs SRS surgeries on MTF transsexuals, about 200 a year. She took over the practice of Stanley Biber, who over the previous 30 years performed more such surgeries than any other person, about 7,000. Dr. Bowers has been named one of the best doctors in the US. If you seen the CSI episode Ch-ch-changes, she's there. As a couple of CSI's walk through a scene with a doctor, there is a group of MTF's listening to a presentation being given by a tall blond woman. They're distracted, and she say, "Ladies, over here" in a teacher voice. That's Dr. Bowers.
Andrea James: Businesswoman, consumer advocate, and voice coach. She taught Felicity Huffman how to speak like a transsexual and teachers MTF transsexuals how to sound like a woman. She wrote superbowl ads as an advertising copywriter, and maintains a web site that aids transsexual women in their transitions, as well as being a crusader for all women in exposing hair removal scams.
Lynn Conway: Pioneering computer engineer, arguably the most important computer engineer of the second half of the 20th century. Prior to transition, she invented generalised dynamic instruction handling while working at IBM. This is the basis for out of order instruction processing in computers, which all computers use. After transition, she was a key employee at DARPA, which developed the ARPANET, which later grew into the internet. As an employee at Xerox, she was one of the pioneers of VLSI design, which is fundamental to modern computer chip design. If you use a computer, the internet, or anything with a microchip in it, you're using something with components based on her designs.
Calpernia Addams: Actress, former US Navy medic, veteran of the first Gulf War. If you've seen the movie Soldier's Girl, that's her story, or the story of her relationship with Barry Winchell, an Army private murdered because he was dating Calpernia.
I didn't mean for it to be a "pick the transsexual" type of thing; I find those to be a bit demeaning. My point was that, other than being unusually tall women, these aren't women that I think anybody has any reason to be fearful of and are no threat to anyone in any situation, including in a bathroom.
Gilda