This Doesn't Help Our Image

I have mixed feelings about the article below but in all fairness the story should be told. Some would say that TTaaT isn't helping either but if the satire isn't apparent to them, I say they need to lighten up a little. I suppose many, if not most transgenders have had the thought of making money in the sex trade cross their minds at some point. It's been my last resort back up plan for quite some time. The sad fact is that a lot of us are forced into situations where selling sex seems like the only available option left to keep paying the bills. This is no different than a cisgender woman in the same business except that pre op trans women are said to make three times the money. The easy money is very tempting. This woman already has money, though she did have some major hospital bills. Do I fault her because she isn't in dire straits? I can't. I don't like it but I can't condemn her. Unfortunately, the fact that she enjoys being non op and intends to stay that way, adds to society's confusion about transsexuals and/or transgenders. The common denominator of transgenders (from closeted, weekend cross dressers to post op transsexuals) is cross gender expression. The difference between cross dressers and "drag queens" (they prefer the term Female Impersonators) and male to female transsexuals is that the former still identify as male. Drag Kings are male impersonators and there are female to male cross dressers, too. But after their performance or play time, they return to their relatively "normal" lives in their given gender. With transsexuals, it is an identity issue. There is a mind/body incongruence and a strong desire to end the pain caused by it. Of course, there are transsexuals that perform drag, so that adds a little more to the confusion. The bottom line is that gender is in between the ears, not the legs. So whether non op, pre op or post op, a transsexual has an identity opposite the gender assigned at their birth. The full story is below. The full story with the sexy pics is here. Er, there is Something About TV's Miriam, the transsexual reality star.. She's a hooker EXCLUSIVE by Suzannah Hills and Will Payne 17/01/2010 Miriam Rivera (Pic:SundayMirror) The transsexual who rose to fame on the hit reality TV show There’s Something About Miriam is working as a £300-an-hour “escort”. Miriam Rivera, 28, caused ­controversy on the dating show when she duped six male contestants – competing for her affections and £10,000 prize money – into ­believing she was a woman. It was only in the final episode of the cult 2004 programme that Miriam ­revealed the truth… that she was born male. The outraged contestants then sued the producers for personal ­injury. Now Mexican-born Miriam is ­advertising her services online as a “companion”, operating from ­Knightsbridge, West London. The former glamour model confirms to punters contacting her that she offers clients a “full service” for £300 an hour or £200 for half an hour at her flat. She says: “I do absolutely everything – I do a full service. Once you have paid for me, you can do whatever you want.” Her internet advert boasts about her spell on the show, which was screened on Sky in Britain and sold worldwide. It says: “Probably hear about me being one of the most beautiful transsexuals in the world and famous for my reality show ‘There’s Something About ­Miriam’.” In an interview with the Sunday ­Mirror, Miriam says she turned to ­prostitution to pay off hospital bills racked up after an accident. She also revealed that many of her punters are wealthy businessman and celebrities who are desperate to “experiment” with a ­pre-op ­transsexual. Miriam said: “The men I meet are hot. Some of them I’m even surprised at because they’re well-known, rich, ­eligible men. Big boys, you know – businessmen, singers, actors. "They take me to the best restaurants and fly me abroad. They pay for my companionship and we only have sex if I want to. It’s voluntary. But most of the time they are so hot I end up being the one begging them. I have no regrets – I’m having fun. I started doing this for the money and when everything is sorted I will stop.” Miriam mounted up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts after ­falling out of the fourth-storey window of her New York flat while trying to escape from a burglar in 2007. She had no health insurance to cover the hospital bills. She started dressing as a girl aged four, but she has never taken the final step with sex reassignment surgery – and has no plans to. “I love who I am,” she says. “I’m just enjoying myself.” news@sundaymirror.co.uk