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[Guest sarathompson]

This is pretty cool. Here is a series of webisodes that feature interviews with the cast of the first transgendered-only cast of the V-monologues.

Beatiful Daughters Part 1

Worth watching if you haven't seen this.

Love,

Sara

[Guest nova]

Thanks Sara, those stories (that Iv'e watched so far) were very touching. In fact, I can only watch a little at a time cause I get so emotional.

[Guest Jean Davis]

Thank you so much for sharing that with us Sara.

They are very inspirational.

Jean Davis

[Sally]

Thanks for posting that link.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Eth]

This looks like something I'll have to look at ^^

愛 Eth

[Guest Eth]

I liked it, I just kind of wish it wasn't so Christian-oriented. I felt a little like I was being segregated because I'm an atheist. Overall the show brought up some great points and would definitely be a big help in showing other people what we're thinking/feeling, but it just really bothered me that about 50% of it had a strong Christian influence. It seemed more like the Christian transsexuals were trying to say "See?! We believe in Jesus too, therefore we're good!" while completely ignoring all of our non-Christians, which is actually the majority. If someone said "my faith helped me" and all of that, then fine, good for them, but I thought giving us the big screaming priest and such (even if he was LGBT-friendly) was just too much. There was just a major bias there towards Christianity and that's really the only thing I had a problem with.

愛 Eth

[Guest Leah1026]

This is pretty cool. Here is a series of webisodes that feature interviews with the cast of the first transgendered-only cast of the V-monologues.

Beatiful Daughters Part 1

Worth watching if you haven't seen this.

I have the video of the whole show on my iPod Touch.

[Sally]

I liked it, I just kind of wish it wasn't so Christian-oriented. I felt a little like I was being segregated because I'm an atheist. Overall the show brought up some great points and would definitely be a big help in showing other people what we're thinking/feeling, but it just really bothered me that about 50% of it had a strong Christian influence. It seemed more like the Christian transsexuals were trying to say "See?! We believe in Jesus too, therefore we're good!" while completely ignoring all of our non-Christians, which is actually the majority. If someone said "my faith helped me" and all of that, then fine, good for them, but I thought giving us the big screaming priest and such (even if he was LGBT-friendly) was just too much. There was just a major bias there towards Christianity and that's really the only thing I had a problem with.

愛 Eth

Eth,

Maybe it was so pointedly aimed at Christians because for some reason they seem to be the most resistant to us.

Atheist never say why don't you stay like millions of years of evolution made you?

It wouldn't make any sense because we just evolved differently, but the Christian fanatics have their holy writings to condemn us.

Love ya,,

Sally

[Guest Eth]

Atheist never say why don't you stay like millions of years of evolution made you?

Well I would... but that would defeat the point of evolution

Eth,

Maybe it was so pointedly aimed at Christians because for some reason they seem to be the most resistant to us.

It wouldn't make any sense because we just evolved differently, but the Christian fanatics have their holy writings to condemn us.

Love ya,,

Sally

I understand that to some degree, but I still felt disconnected from it because they catered to a single group within the transgender community, making it even more narrow than it has to be. When I see stuff like this, where religion (especially Christianity because it happens so often) is brought in practically inexplicably, it just makes me want to slap them and say "HEY! Not EVERY human on the planet follows your religion!", because it really does feel like they're not even acknowledging the existence of anyone outside of their little microcosm, which is exactly what we're asking cisgender people NOT to do. It feels contradictory.

愛 Eth

[Guest AllisonD]

Eth,

Maybe it was so pointedly aimed at Christians because for some reason they seem to be the most resistant to us.

Atheist never say why don't you stay like millions of years of evolution made you?

It wouldn't make any sense because we just evolved differently, but the Christian fanatics have their holy writings to condemn us.

Love ya,,

Sally

Now that is an interesting perspective. I am with Eth, except the thing that bothered me most is that they were mostly all prettier and younger than me. The Christian thing was too in my face from my atheist viewpoint. But the thought that this was appropriate since the Christians are the most negative toward us (and I have experienced plenty of that myself) and so in more need of 'coaching' makes sense to me and makes me feel better about how it was done. Thanks for pointing this out.

Allison

[Guest S. Chrissie]

Thanks for sharing the link. I love it!

[Guest Donna Jean]

Thanks, Sara...

I've had this book marked on my computer for some time, now.

Actually, my therapist gave it to me to watch!

My wife says.."Oh my! You could end up looking like them?".....LOL!

Well, YEP! Heading there right now...!

Huggs

Donna Jean

[Guest CharlieRose]

I liked it, I just kind of wish it wasn't so Christian-oriented. I felt a little like I was being segregated because I'm an atheist. Overall the show brought up some great points and would definitely be a big help in showing other people what we're thinking/feeling, but it just really bothered me that about 50% of it had a strong Christian influence. It seemed more like the Christian transsexuals were trying to say "See?! We believe in Jesus too, therefore we're good!" while completely ignoring all of our non-Christians, which is actually the majority. If someone said "my faith helped me" and all of that, then fine, good for them, but I thought giving us the big screaming priest and such (even if he was LGBT-friendly) was just too much. There was just a major bias there towards Christianity and that's really the only thing I had a problem with.

愛 Eth

Oh, my god that priest was hysterical. "GOD IS INTERESTED IN THE HEART, NOT IN BODY-PARTS!" My new catchphrase. Lol. And, I haven't watched this all the way through, about halfway through part 4, but it didn't seem to be that christian oriented/influenced/biased at all. Were we watching a different documentary? There was that one lady who was religious and they mentioned it as it applied to her, but no one else said ANYTHING about religion at all. (Unless they do it all towards the end. And even then I can't see it being more than an occasional mention of god as it applies to them personally.)

Overall, very well made (so far). A bit girly for me, but quality, so it wasn't a waste of time. I think lots more people should watch it.

[Guest Joe Cool]

That was cool!

Thanks for posting it!

Joe

[Guest S. Chrissie]

Anyone knows how to download the videos? My internet connection is too slow to actually watch it while it streams..keep getting pauses every other minute or so.

[Guest Eth]

Oh, my god that priest was hysterical. "GOD IS INTERESTED IN THE HEART, NOT IN BODY-PARTS!" My new catchphrase. Lol. And, I haven't watched this all the way through, about halfway through part 4, but it didn't seem to be that christian oriented/influenced/biased at all. Were we watching a different documentary? There was that one lady who was religious and they mentioned it as it applied to her, but no one else said ANYTHING about religion at all. (Unless they do it all towards the end. And even then I can't see it being more than an occasional mention of god as it applies to them personally.)

Overall, very well made (so far). A bit girly for me, but quality, so it wasn't a waste of time. I think lots more people should watch it.

I just thought the priest was over the top, really. Just what bugged me was how, if they wanted to get a religious view on it, why was it only from the Christians? I understand why there's no "So you're Atheist, how does that effect your transition?" lol because Atheism is just that- a lack of religion. I wouldn't have anything to say on that either. It just seemed very ... biased towards Christianity in that they had several people go "It's about God" and "It's about my relationship with God" and then that big screaming priest. It felt like they were having Christian transsexuals speak for ALL transsexuals. God has nothing to do with MY transition, or everyone's, so why are we only hearing from one party? That's how I felt about it.

愛 Eth