Hair

[andygates]

A female-to-male transsexual e-friend is ready for her first male haircut and is agonising over where to go.  Now, I think she should go to a men's barbers and get a cheap-ass clipper job, because that's what most men do.  Going to a stylist is going to get her a butch haircut, not a male haircut.  She doesn't want to look like a butch dyke, she wants to look like a bloke.  Thoughts?

Comments

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Question: Does she want to be referred to as "she" still, or "he" now? Because I'm thinking that if the pronoun change hasn't happened yet, your friend might still be in the early stages of transitioning, and if that's the case, getting a stylist to do the cut might also provide transition to those who need the visual changes to help them remember there *is* a change.

One day, I will re-read a paragraph like that and it will make sense. I know what I mean, anyway. Feel free to quiz me on what exactly I do mean if that was garbled.

[arabis.livejournal.com]

Does she want to be referred to as "she" still, or "he" now?

Yeah, I was wondering that too - but stuck with "she" because that's how andygates referred to her (or him).