Should we allow sexual and explicit content on the website or not???

[Zohra]

I was wondering if i was a boring novice or something, but actually the rules off this site say:

NO SEXUAL EXPLICIT CONTENT ALLOWED!!!

Still there are many kinky trannies and admirers who try to upload sexual explicit content on the site...

I ask myself: 'WHAT DO THE PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE WANT???''

Do we want it to be a cool, fun and supportive place? Or do we like it to be a nasty, raunchy and disgusting pornographic website???

I really NEED your guys opinions on this one, because some people claim i am a boring novice...

Then i ask myself: 'ARENT THERE ENOUGH PORNY AND RAUNCHY WEBSITES ALREADY on this world involving trannyporn????'

Sometimes i ask myself if newbies here are BLIND or something, because on the signup screen is a HUGE picture that says: 'TRANNYSPACE IS NOT A PORNOGRAPHIC AND PICKUP WEBSITE!!!!'

Who the hell do they think they are fooling????

Regards,
Zohra

[DeeDee]

Veronica, I hear what you are saying... I keep up with the struggles of the trans community, mostly because my own partner doesn't. I want to know what's going on... I NEED to keep my partner safe. Labels... before you had even mentioned it, I was thinking of how people HAVE to have them. It's how we identify and make sense of our surroundings. However, what you might be confusing is labelling with judgements... Personally, I might label a person to organize my thoughts... yet at the same time, I recognize that many do not like to be labelled. Still it is a necessary evil for some of us, and not for judgemental purposes either. Many years ago, it was considered a crime to be lesbian, gay or whatever.... It took many years of people coming out of the closet and throwing all caution to the wind. I stand firm in my resolve.... if someone doesn't like who I am, there's the door, don't let it hit you on the way out. I expect others to treat me the way I want to be treated... I know it's not like that most of the time. I recognize the plight of the trans community, but as in anything that is not understood, people feel powerless and in fear because they do not have the education. There will always be fear where there is a lack of knowledge. Because people in general like to dictate the way life is supposed to be (based on their terms) or control freaks as some would say, there will always be confrontations. When I see T-women in dresses up to their crotches, making a spectacle of themselves... how do they really expect others to take them seriously, when they can't take themselves seriously? If they want respect, they have to earn it... It's what's inside that counts most... For those who look on the outside, it's shallow and empty... and when the looks are gone, what's left? I rest my case.

[Michelle-Marie Hodges]

Veronica, You and I have our differences in wording yet see things much the same way. However this last post you have my utmost support admiration and complete agreement.

"So how can we change the world? Well, the more visible that we are the better."
"EVERY time that someone encounters us, (online or in the "real" world) we become an unwilling ambassador. "
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"Isn't APATHY our greatest enemy?"
"If we are NOT working for the community in time and money by at the VERY LEAST supporting our own lobby efforts, then how can we complain if we do not have equal acceptance/rights?"

These statements are the very ideas I strive to instill here in Virginia, considered the capital of the Conservative south. I face great criticism from many of my trans sisters for this very reason, I'm out and open. I am willing to speak wherever I am asked. I write articles and work with the many LGBT organizations as a TransWoman and a Lesbian couple with my partner Cameron. Just this past April we held the first "Standing United Conference" at Old Dominion University. We had over 150 in attendance for the day long event in which 80% were L, G, B and friends, the remaining were Trans Women and Men. It was directed toward Lesbians, Gays, friends and allies to open up our issues and needs to them in an open atmosphere where questions were asked and then answered. It came about after the ENDA issue. Cami and I were approached by the Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce of Hampton Roads and ask how could they learn more about trans people that they could be better allies in our defense. With a highly secretive community, if one calls it that, here in Virginia they did not know what we needed or how they could help. After the conference we received so many emails of support and admiration, most all who attended went away in awe about what the journey of transition is like.

So your statement is so true, We need to be out there when we can and when out there we need to be seen as seriously representing ourselves as ambassadors of the whole TG population. Our acceptance and inclusion as productive members of society will never be accomplished by standing by and hoping others will do it for us.

WOW after my first reply to you I thought OH NO, we'll NEVER get along!!!!!!

Hey as a note, I grew up in Norwalk and graduated from St. Paul HS in Santa Fe Springs. (Class of 70) Last year in October, get ready, while I was out there visiting I gave a speech during a annual Alumni meeting. It was the Alumni Association and Faculty that invited me. They came away with a better attitude of what being transgender is about. From a Catholic High School, a religion that excommunicated me because I was changing my views and gender, it was a comforting feeling. Yes we are ambassadors and how we are seen will make change. It will not be over night but from one person to small groups who then spread the word that we are just like any other, we just want to be part of society.

[Zohra]

What is a bawdy group Veronica???

[Zohra]

And by the way, this is NOT a group but a SITE that HAS groups (LOL) heheeh

[Zohra]

Hehehem this is really funny... LOL!!! This means i would have to find a sponsor ESPECIALLY for Veronica hehehe,. you have great sense ofhumor, girl hehehe,,,

The site doesnt make any money at all, it's just a private initiative. However i the future i like to place a paypall donation system on the site to cover some costs but we will see about that in the future! Hehehehe

VERY VERY GREAT POSTING ehehehe

[Raven Andrea]

I think you should continue to block any explicit sexual content from this site. There are plenty of other sites these people can go to. I appreciate your creation of this site Zohra.

[Ryan Jalbert]

I say NO to allowing sexual and explicit content on this web site. I am here to make friends, share stories and give and recieve advice. I am also here to learn more about LGBT and to start taking a role in the LGBT community, to help smart'en up and educate all the narrow minded fuckers out there in this close minded world. I apoligize for the bad languge but people who can't accept a person for who they are be it the sexuality, sexual preferences, religion, colour, race, beliefs or what ever else really fucking pisses me off. And who needs to look at naughty pictures when I have the most BEAUTIFUL woman in the world by my side.

[Zohra]

Hi Ryan,

Don't worry there will be NO sexual content :-) We will keep the site decent and cosy hehehehe

[Zohra]

Veronika,

These are LINKPARTNERS. I searched my ass off on the internet and i wasnt able to find TG linkpartners that are NOT sexual. Believe me this is not my preferation but i am not familiair with other wellknown and reliable TG resources outside my country Holland... so i really don't know where the hell i must link.

When i find some good replacements i will delete these links ofcourse...

I am not payed for these links, i just had to place them as reciprocal links...

Zohra

[Matthew]

now is this a bad thing if by chance two memebers started a relationship....would that be inapropriate for this site?

[Matthew]

wait.....so its a bad thing to even look for a relationship on here......i mean sometimes things like that just happen...im here because this is where im very comfortable and people understand me...but i do have to say there are some very attractive people on here...thats just human nature

[Zohra]

Hi Matthew,

Its not forbidden to look for a REAL realtionship here, but its not really a datingsite. Reationships are stimulated ofcourse but we wanna prevent 'TRANNYCHASING' for sexdates here.

Trannyspace has to be a safe place for transgender people who dont wanna be chased by Trannychasers!

Zohra