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Winc:::blinking::

Scratch:Offended? ::please hoping not::

Winc:::smiling:: Offended? No, flattered. Let’s see… I think it has to do with my phone sex, believe it or not, and… ::shyly:: Zen. Gwynyth rekindled my practice.

Scratch:::snuggling in:: Zen?

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Winc:When they do a gender change, a lot of people layer a new gender over the one they had. Like putting on a mask, or a costume. You’re not really changing. I think the deal in a gender change is to destroy yourself utterly… to get to a point of zero, nothing… and then you can create from there.

Scratch:Like art.

Winc:Right. There’s an art to um… doing, or performing gender.

Excerpt: Online Rally

Luger7: No special rights for homosexuals.

Vina: This isn’t about homosexuals!

Scratch:I *guess* I’m happy we’re getting rally reports but jeezuz can’t they stop for a minute?

Winc:I think Gwynyth set them to share with us so we’d be inspired.

Scratch:Oh. Not that last one though. ::stroking beard:: Were you creating from zero before or after surgery?

Winc:Definitely after. Before, I was just like everyone else, racing for what we all thought was the finish line.

Scratch:Thinking your journey would end as you came out of anesthesia…

Winc:Yes, exactly.

Scratch:So did you say, fine, I’m a girl, now what? And then, uh oh, what’s a girl?

Winc:Sort of… It was less than a year after my surgery that I talked with some women and they asked me how could I be a woman like them? Other women said outright that I am simply and only a castrated male.

Scratch:No way! ::flatly:: I don’t believe your womanliness is created…

It *is* you.