Boys as Girls :)

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These two need to swap shirts because the 'girl' on the right really is a dog. 'Girl' on the left is a cutie-pie! 

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Wow! 3 cheers for this cutie. Bet she has nice pom-poms!! 

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Wardrobe Malfunction 

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Wardrobe Malfunction - continued 

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selfies

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more selfies

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My poll so far shows that 72% of you like all photos including those that are photoshopped. It doesn't surprise me since it seems that a lot of the photos posted here on Betty's website are obviously photoshopped. Often hard to tell...but most can usually be easily detected. Why are photoshopped photos so popular when there are so many legitimate photos of boys dressed as girls available? Is it admired as an art form reflecting the skill of the person doing the photoshopping, and not so much the photo itself? On this thread I'm now trying to post only what I feel are legitimate photos. To me it is more meaningful to see 'real' photos. There is already way too much fake everything happening on the web.     

[Robyn Jodie]

Regarding the poll:
As one who believes that a guy should be as free to enjoy wearing a dress as a woman is to wear pants, I must say that although I enjoy a Photoshop as well as the next person, as a yardstick of peoples' attitudes, I wish it were easier to tell whether the picture is:
1: Yep, really a boy -- examples: the ones with the book "The Boy in the Dress," and the cosplay/anime photos;
2: male-to-female transsexuals -- although the line between this and the previous category may be blurry enough that perhaps we don't want to split them after all (google "princess boy": I suspect that most of these kids, if left alone and allowed to experiment, will Not grow up to be transsexuals);
3: Photoshops -- the really bad ones are no problem, but there are a lot of really good ones out there,
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4: Looks like a boy, but actually a girl -- examples (I believe) the ones with the fully dressed kids playing in the swimming pool.

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THX for your reply Robyn and you make very good points regarding the subject of real vs. photoshopping. I hadn't even thought about the fact that there are many photos of REAL girls who look very much like boys. Good food for thought. 

However, it would be more appropriate to use the term transgender rather than transsexual. Transgender is now a more generic term for those who have transitioned to other than their birth sex or have those feelings even if they have not transitioned. And transitioning has nothing to do with a surgical sex change. Even with surgery one cannot 'change' their sex. It is all about GENDER regardless of what one decides to do in order to live their life as it is meant to be lived.

I remember long ago when the word transsexual was the generic word for anyone who lived as their opposite 'sex'. But that was before the word transgender came into play. Sort of like transvestite, which mostly disappeared once the word crossdresser came into play. Or like homosexual, which has all but disappeared now that the word gay is used.

My being married to a transgender has helped me to better understand the sensitivity descriptions can have on someone like her. She would not like being called a transsexual even if she were to have surgery. Her GENDER is and has always been female even though she was born a male. And I only see her and treat her as a female, not trans-anything.    

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don't worry. he'll grow into it.