Ok, I’m on my soap box this morning – look out! 
I do not wish to offend my sisters while trying to help steer our TG sails into a better wind... but there is a place for adult material...and a yahoo profile (or likewise) is not one of them!
This is something that is really bothering me. TG Yahoo pages and websites marked “Adult Content”! To me, this fuels a stereotype – Am I the only one that feels this way?
Yahoo pages categorized “Adult Material” is a way of telling the world the TG community needs to be handled “taboo”
or viewed as a subject rated “R” or “X”. - Baloney! 
TG people are just “people”
, NOT a section in an adult book store or a category of adult martial on Yahoo! By setting your pages and sites as “Adult” you only fuel a stereotype that we all wish would go away. 
If you feel the same as me, then DON’T categorize your self as adult material
TG Yahoo pages in many ways represent the spectrum of the TG community.
Let’s change a perception by policing
ourselves. Remove the “Adult” category from your Yahoo pages and websites; move adult material to protected adult appropriate websites.
Yahoo pages should allow others to freely experience and learn a little about you and the TG community through you - no matter ones age. What do you want to teach others about the TG community? Think about it.
I DO think its ok to rate a page “Adult” if you plan on offering adult material or discussion. But don’t categorize yourself “Adult” simply because you are TG, TS, TV, CD, TG, Gay or Lesbian! Adult rating is for adult material and the TG people are NOT adult material; their content can some times be, but their presentation of their gender is not.
If I am the only one that thinks this way then tell me how I am wrong.
What are your thoughts?
Chloe Do! – Do setup a Yahoo Profile page, website/blog (or a like) and bring class and intelligence to our community through a respectable presentation of your Website/Page . 
Chloe Don't! – Avoid displaying “R” or “X” rated material, sexual discussions or making vulgar or obscene remarks or cyber sex webcam acts on your Yahoo page or websites! Do not help to further stereotypes of TG folk by marking your page as “Adult Material”. TG People are “just people” – not sex objects or perverts or “Adult Material”! Come on girls! –YUCK!
-Chloe Prince 
Original Yahoo 360 Blog Comments
"Hi Chloe, Doll! Understand your position, but, you are making the mistake of thinking that all the gurls out there are just like you, are serious about their t-ness, and want to be taken seriously as people--not sex-objects. Just not the case, Sweetie! Some gurls are only in it for the sex. That's all they want out of their internet presence is a way to get laid. I'm not judging that, I'm just stating the fact. You're a very unusual and rare gurl; you don't want to just keep your girl identity for the occasional Saturday night, you also want it to be a part of you entire life. I feel just like you, that's why I'm open with friends and family about who and what I am. But not everyone feels that way. IN fact, very few gurls out there feel that way. As for the "adult" rating.. Yahoo! is pretty Neanderthal about things like that. The very fact that a page deals with transgendered issues (gratuitously or not) is enough for them to brand it as "adult content." I guess they feel the rest of the world doesn't have to know there are transgendered people, unless they're looking for a piece :-)"-Jamie Yankic
"I wondered how long it was gong to take before the trolls got to you! I read somewhere that if you don't check off the little box that makes your page "adult material" others won't be able to read it... I don't recall exactly what it was all about but the consensus was better to check it than be sorry later that you didn't. I wish I could remember the place I found it, but I'm blond. Oooops! I almost forgot to vote; Chloe,my suggestion is to do as I, a classy page marked adult.. the best of both worlds. I make it clear, I don't put up with any nonsense."-Melissa Sheridan
"I'm with ya Chloe!"-Sheena
"I know I'm a little behind, but I'm with you too. Don't get me wrong. I'm totally against any kind of institutional censorship. I have a degree in literature, so you can safely assume that I'm all about freedom of speech and freedom of the press. But, through the power of my own blog, and through comments like this, I encourage girls to self-moderate, for their own good, and for the good of the rest of us. The t-community needs a face lift, and the only people who can (or will) do the PR for us are us."-Riz Scott
"I totally agree!! As a member of the LGBT community I find that we have the same problem. It is not specific to the T community. If you have ever seen a gay pride celebration you know what I mean!! The only way for us to change our perception from the masses is to show them that we are nice normal people just like them."-Amanda
"First, I agree with you Chloe !!!And I agree with all your class friends that have commented here.
Also …… Yes Jamie, an example of your class friends, has a point too… Many (maybe most TG’s) are as she says.
Being Transgendered… or identify with… doesn’t speak to ones preferences or activities. No more than being tall, short, white, black… etc.
I think that there are few like us that simply have a pure interest in understanding gender, both in others and ourselves… and truly have no ‘Adult-Rated’ interest regarding the subject of Transgender. Problem is, it seems to me, that many / most in the TG-World are not like us…
Must be my intuition reading this blog … I have given a lot of thought to this in the past … and again a lot recently. I often think I should ‘disconnect’ myself from all TG connections. And just be aware of in those I meet in everyday life, and look for in friends with … intelligence, integrity, positive attitude, etc and TG Understanding. … Thing is, I find gender understanding so profound I just want to stay attached to the stream of information… and the truly exception TG people I have had the privilege of meeting due to the TG connection.
I’m afraid I am rambling (again)… maybe shows my emotions here.
This may be a big reason many or most post-op TG Ladies go stealth and disconnect from the TG-World all together. My ‘twin’ Cecil met an exceptional lady about a year ago that had been 24/7 for 10 years and was stealth. She also worked as a professional in the business world. A situation she had to RE-build after going 24/7 10 years earlier. We met and talked for hours. I found her to be an exceptional lady and person in general. When we first made contact awhile before I stated up front about the Jackie-Cecil Transgendered fact, but she missed or forgot?... maybe a PC glich and lost text message? So after several hours of talking Cecil happened to mention the TG factor in him. The Lady did a complete flip and no longer had an interest in continued friendship development. I honestly think that had a lot to do with her feelings about the TG community in general.
Transgender Understanding and Acceptance is of the highest level of a mature person. Yet some people ( some even calling themselves TG, CD, TV, TS, etc) are of a much lower moral nature.
The day may come that society in general will recognize Transgender for what it is… and have no direct or automatic connection with any other personal attribute including the person’s morals."
-Jackie Sparks
"Ditto on Jackie’s Comment ( of course : )"-Cecil Sparks
"Well, heres yet another person that agrees with you, Chloe! (Am I sensing a trend here??) Having been involved (and still currently involved with) several varied types of volunteer public service organizations, I must admit that public image can make or break a group. If you send out the right 'signals,' everything is usually just fine and people see you for who you really are, as well as what your trying to represent. Send the wrong ones, however, and people or the community at large tend to take you for a joke and can't even begin to take you seriously. This goes equally for individuals as well as groups. I'm not trying to take the soap box, either, but when your trying to present an image of a community such as ours thats generally very misunderstood right from the beginning, everything you do or say makes a difference. Unfortunately, however, this isn't usually the case. But, I guess self-moderation is slowly going out the door closely following common sense..."
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"That's bugged me too...finding someone's Yahoo ID, it's marked "for adults only", and then THERE'S NOTHING ON THE PAGE. No pic, no location, no age, no links, no interests: nada."-Ronnie Rho
"I choose the Adult setting for my pages and profile, but for a reason no one has mentioned. I do it as a courtesy, to anyone who wants to set "parental controls" to protect their innocence or that of their young. I don't even have any vulgar or sexual material on my page (in my judgment), but as tame as my content is, still I'm sure there are many who would be creped-out by the subject. My priority is not to offend these folks, because that can cause "backlash" that is counter-productive to efforts that promote our image. It's my way of respecting those individuals, even though I disagree with them. The 'Adult' content label is my way of giving such people plenty of fair warning, {Caution: You are approaching the edge of the normal distribution curve here.}Yes, I know, that's not really an activist's position, but at least I'll never be accused of pushing too hard!
I think there's a song..."
"I'd love to change the world, but i don't know what to do, so I'm leaving it up to yoo-hoo....."
-Buffy Orion
"Not much to really say - you hit the nail on the head Chloe! I totally agree with you. There are other sites that cater to "Adult Material" but those TG sisters who choose to expose themselves to somewhat advertise what they have and want will continue to do so. It's just another obstacle for us. As if we don't have enough already. Early on when I was searching for information to how I felt inside - all I really found was a bunch of she-male porn. Almost every corner I turned.
Now that has changed considerably thanks to you and others who are making real change to our community. I too want this - to make a difference. I do hope the message can get out that we are not sexual deviants or fetish seekers or perverts. And that we are separate from those that are purely seeking sex. And in no way am I knocking those who do. What ever floats you boat. But Chloe is right. There are other venues for you to use that are much better suited for your needs. But I know this may be like throwing peas at a tank when getting across to others.
We can moan and grown all we want but people are people - strait - gay - lesbian - TG - other - there are those who chose a life of sex and those who chose to follow other paths.
I am behind you 1000% percent on this Chloe!"
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