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2026-04-11 19:33 UTC

@Tattie I remember the TS/TV divide of the eighties/nineties. I was one of the "good ones". It was all illegal so the two circles did overlap a bit for safety. On the TS side we had to meet very invasive criteria and we certainly had to avoid giving off a TV vibe. Sexuality had to be completely repressed. Full SRS was a legal requirement. The process took me away from any sense of authenticity and probably put another scoop of trauma in my head. The TS/TV archetypes did so much damage. I am sorry you were misdirected onto such a long and painful journey. I agree that people's private explorations shouldn't be used to attack anyone, even if they happen to be married to a reprehensible MAGA.

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@BernieDoesIt@mstdn.social 2026-04-11 23:34

@SecondUniverse @Tattie I remember being a kid and looking at the pop psychology versions of both of those and deciding that neither fit. I didn't have any desire to cross dress so I wasn't a TV, and I didn't know I was the opposite gender, so I wasn't a TS. Total nonbinary erasure. Imagine my surprise when I looked up the actual Benjamin Scale and realized that other than the dressing part I fit the description of a Type IV TS pretty well.

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