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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: re: transsexuals (hetero/homosexual relationships)
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 15:42:47 EST
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>From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
>Subject: re: transsexuals
>Message-ID: <2233@randvax.UUCP>
>...
>it seems that being a bisexual would be considered being a ``traitor''
>and that she'd probably be completely ostracized.  (I might add that
>this group of ``friends'' included gays of both sexes, and she claimed
>that they both had this prejudice.)
>
>Is this woman's experience unusual?  Or does this just go to show
>how prejudice exists in every group, even those who are themselves
>victims of it?

I don't know how common this is but I can contribute the following personal
experience:

I have a woman friend who considers herself to be completely  gay.  As  far
as  I know, she's had only one heterosexual relationship (with me) that was
actually physically heterosexual. (That was about 12 years ago.  These days
we're  friends.)  At  the  time  she was very worried about her gay friends
finding out -- so much so that we pretended I was gay, even to  the  extent
of getting a bisexual male friend of mine to pretend to be my SO at times.

At the time, I thought the whole situation was a  bit  silly  and  somewhat
amusing.  Looking  back  now, I find it rather sad.  Interestingly, most of
our mutual friends now know I'm not gay and don't think any the less of her
(or  me)  for it.  Was all that effort wasted?  It's certainly a shame that
anyone even thought it might be necessary.

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