I have heard of a few trans people that like to refer to themselves as a tranny. I don't think there is anything wrong with that as long as they don't assume all trans people like being called tranny and respect what other people prefer to be called. I imagine that some black people probably really dislike being called the n word, even by other black people. If I have to talk about myself to people I use the term trans. I feel comfotable with that term.

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hi,

i'll be in your show, but i want an advance of £40,000 and full creative and editorial control.

maybe you can PM me.

thanks.

never gonna happen unless you produce it yerself

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any term that ends in Y or IE is usually offensive

JUST think about it

even terms like Black that are accepted as PC add Y

BLACKY
PAKY - PAKI
TRANNY - IE
I mean imagine someone shouting
JEWY
LESSIE
JESSIE
Spazzy - Spastics Society - Now Scope - changed partly due to that abusive history in name calling


etc

it often mocks and tears apart serious terms into an infantile playschool bullying context

TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY SPAMMY SPAMMY SPAMMY

and lets face it most people who use these term have not long left the playground anyway

when i was at school there was Joey Deacon a disabled person that assisted blue peter in disability awareness - long before the PC brigade even existed

kids on the playground would call people who today would be described as special needs - as JOEYS JOEY JOEY JOEY

SPAMMY

Tranny falls into the same poisonous context im afraid

abuse has to be easy to say and remember especially when drunk when violence and damage to personal property often accompanies it

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I never got tranny or spammy at school lol, no one seemed to know what one was(and I'm only away from school just over a year!). I did get 'mascara boy' though but the later response to that was "They're natural, bitches". It was rather insulting since they are bloody real....must speak to my psychologist about this !

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Apart from the period when I lived in Brixton, when it was all batty man, and chi-chi man, I used to be called cake boy more than anything.

"Eh cake boy, you wan shish, you wan doner?"
"Eh Cake boy, I cut your face, unnerstan?"
"Wha are you, ma fren, you are not man, you are not vooman, you are cake boy, I tell you now, no pinky no perky..."

Cake boy? Wtf is that lol? I can honestly say I've never heard of that one! You must have had a good laugh at their expense at the end of the day for being so bloody stupid!

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ROFL Dave

Han79, is it Hannah or Alyx? I think I'm a bit behind with what ur correct name is :/ Anyway, no I've just passed through a few times, clubbing in fact. It was lucky there were more of us than them, though they were clearly the more dangerous our group is a pretty amenable bunch Although you are more likely to get ripped off than assaulted in my limited experience, Brixton is one of the last places I'd chose to go as a visible trans person.

I have been to Brixton once myself for a day, doing a job painting lines in a warehouse. I went off at lunchtime to find a local shop to get something to eat from. I took the van and parked it near a local convenience corner shop. There was a row of black fellows sat side by side along a nearby garden wall, I remember feeling very uneasy at the way they were staring at me. I made sure I locked the van and went into the shop.

Inside the shop I had never seen anything like it. There were rows of shelves with empty tins of food on them, anything of any value (which the owner deemed was virtually everything in the shop) was behind the counter which resembled that of a high street bank, there was a small hatch were you could give the teller an empty tin and he would get a full tin for you from behind the counter, once you had paid of course. I had seen shops in rough parts of Bristol before that had these bank style counters in them but I never saw a shop in which they were that worried about you stealing a tin of beans, lol.

It was an experience I will never forget and I actually felt a little surprised the van was still there when I got back outside given what I just saw inside the shop.

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