Journal Just Jennifer's Journal: A Bit About Me...Part One 28
Yesterday I had the misfortune to discover that a member of Slashdot had chosen to take a disagreement here. This person, who uses the name tomhudson, now imagines that he will take this story to local and national news. I have to say, the image I get is of a great ape, pound his chest, and bellowing as a warning to any who would threaten him. And what led to this show of masculine bravado? I dared share some information about him on a discussion group on Usenet.
Yes, alas, it is the same sad story. A minor dustup on Usenet is turned into what some fool thinks is a major battle.
And what led to all of this. It is a disagreement over the social and medical issues surrounding transsexualism. I am a post-op transsexual, and tomhudson wishes to claim to be a transsexual as well. I am of the mind that transsexual, or as I and others prefer, Harry Benjamin Syndrome, refers to a specific medical condition. tomhudson wishes to stretch the word to the point of being meaningless. This is not uncommon among those who belong to a social/political movement that is know as "transgender."
Sadly, "transgenderist," a term that originated with a notorious crossdresser who used the name "Virginia Prince" was originally meant to be exclusive of transsexuals. Sometime, around the late Eighties, or eary Nineties, some came to imagine that there would be greater political strength if the united crossdressers and transsexuals into a single entity. Those who were transsexual largely ignored this at first. Most of us were more concerned with simply correcting our bodies and getting on with our lives.
The simple fact is, true transsexuals are rare. Crossdressers are much more common. As this movement took hold, many who were crossdressers began to claim to be really transsexuals. It was just that they didn't want to have surgery. You see, the thing is, while crossdressing starts out as simply a sexual thing, first showing up after puberty, some crossdressers crave it more and more until they reach a point where they sometimes decide to dress full time. They have no desire to have their body corrected, because for them, the trill comes from being a "woman" with a penis. Even if they go so far as to take hormones, which will likely reduce their sexual desire, this aging crossdresser still desires to remain a woman with a penis.
On the other hand, a transsexual is born with a birth defect that occurs during in utero development. There is a common misconception that we all start out as female. Actually, we all start out as undifferentiated. If a Y chromosome is present, then certain tissues develop and begin producing male hormones. This causes the body to become male, and eventually differentiates the brain as male. If the Y chromosome is not present, or if there is a chromosonal defect, OR if something interferes, then even though the male hormones ae present, things don't go as they normally would. In the most extreme case, you have an XY woman. This is a person who appears normally female at birth, but who, when they fail to start puberty, turns out to be chromosonally male. They are usually sterile, having no internal female organs, and they require hormones to develop normally.
If something interferes, the person can be born intersex. This can occur at any time, and the severity of the condition depends on how much interference occured. The condition can range from a simple hypospadia (an opening of the urethra at the base of the penis) to a person that shows characteristics of both sexes and who will require surgical correction to lead a normal life. There is, however, controversy over when the surgery should take place.
Finally, it the interference occurs after the body has differentiated to being male, the brain may default to female...or in other cases, the brain my be differentiated to be male even though the body is female. This produces a true transsexual.
More to come....
Jandrea James on phony "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" (Score:2)
'Jennifer' Usher claims to have "Harry Benjamin Syndrome"
Andrea James on the fake Harry Benjamin Syndrome [tsroadmap.com]
"Harry Benjamin syndrome" (HBS) is a fake disease created by some self-hating transpeople who self-diagnosed as intersex. I had not had any dealings with these people until one tried to recreate a deleted Wikipedia article about this fake disease. After I redirected it back to transsexualism per consensus, they went crazy. Their self-proclaimed Spanish leader Charlotte Goiar and self-proclaimed US
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Oh, and the group that I am part of has nothing to do with either Goiar or "Purple Girl." I do agree with Andrea that they are both quite odd.
The Myth Of Howard Thomas Usher's Sex Change (Score:2)
(see thread for additional commentary)
The Myth Of Howard Thomas Usher's Sex Change
by JenniferFlusher
Howard Thomas Usher, also known on the internet as Jennifer Usher, likes to
pretend that he is a person who underwent a sex change in 2006.
This post will prove that Howard almost certainly never had sex change
surgery and give the reasons why. Howard has been known as "Jennifer
Usher" since 2000 on the
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I guess you never got the memo about what changing gender presentation means. Then again, you've shown too many times that your misunderstandings and misquotings are willful, just like the rest of your ignorance-based attacks on everyone else.
Keep twisting. That's Jennifer Usher, transquisling, posting more transphobic hatred and lies from UCSF computers on the t
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The rest, well that will come in time....
Jennifer Usher thinks people are stupid. (Score:2)
Blah blah blah ... and that's why you ended up on workfare after being homeless in San Francisco. Because of one company's homophobia and another one that said wait a bit?
And why you never worked as a computer programmer even years after claiming to have completely transitioned and having surgery and everything else.
Unbelievable. Totally unbelievable. You must think everyone else in the world is brain dead to put forward that sort of obvious garbage.
Then again, stupid is as stupid does.
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Friends
Just Jennifer (1823464) is all alone in the world.
Fans
Just Jennifer (1823464) is either loved by all, or just invisible.
Too bad you can't really bi invisible in real life. [google.com]
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Does he ever consider that this might be a factor?
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An uber programmer would have been around when the hottest topic was enlightenment (and if you don't know what enlightenment is ~ in the computer program sense ~ then I think you have no room to talk about being an uber programmer. Advanced maybe, but I'm just pointing out that all the best programmers know the history of things that relate to their work, it's part of the fanaticism that makes good programmers)
An uber programmer wouldn't attack someone in a journal
as for only being here a few days, you're a
Really??? (Score:2)
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Give me time. I am still learning my way around, and in the meantime I am dealing with tomhudson's attacks. Apparently he thought he could trash me here and I would not know.
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Say the truth - that you first threatened to out me in a newsgroup, then decided to cause more problems here, and that in both cases, you failed.
You don't understand what slashdot is - it's not primarily a place to journal - it's not a f***ing myspace for nerds - it's a tech discussion site. Something you don't know much about, since you don't work in the field.
You're out of your league here - just as you are everywhere else.
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Then, we he decided to trash me here, I came and stood up to him. Obviously this is proving embarassing for him.
Oh well...
On the question of outing (Score:2)
Several points:
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My intent was to give him a taste of what he does to me. Clearly he cannot see that.
As to intimidating him, this line is pretty much a repeat of something I said to him. Nice try, but I said it first.
Now, he tries to claim that I outed him on Usenet
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Woot! And we do love you Barbie. We're on your side, and assholes like this that you're arguing with can go beat it! :p
I simply don't have the time to read every word, but just from the skimming I'm catching all the anti-vibes I care to for today...
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Jennifer Usher Attacking transsexuals & transg (Score:2)
Topics in this post include Jennifer Usher's attacks on transgender and transsexual women, years of attacks on a woman who was raped, a crude attempt at outing me, claims of 'special privilege', and the University of California San Francisco's action (or lack thereof) over the years concerning Usher's use of UCSF computers and work time to harass transsexuals on the Internet.
Introduction To begin this sto
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Now, let me point out a few things. I have done nothing to tomhudson that he has not done to me repeatedly on Usenet, and elsewhere. The pot calling the kettle black as they say.
If, as tomhudson fantasizes, this article were to get attention from real journalists...well, that is when things will get interesting. You see, his "fact