All I know is that those Trannies have never really bothered me. Do I think there behavior is twisted and weird? Perhaps. But I always try to refrain from making those sorts of value judgments on anyone else's sexual behavior (as long as it is consensual and they're not hurting anyone who doesn't want to get hurt), lest someone else makes their own value judgment about some of the things I do. And we all know that there are plenty of conservative/puritanical people who think what we do (sex with prostitutes, even female ones, oral sex, even any regular sex beyond the missionary position, etc.) is twisted and weird. So, IMHO, we should really be the LAST people to cast judgment on the Trannies.
And what JB said is very true. Not that he was EQUATING what "the Rodent" Chinchilla is doing to the actions of Hitler, which I don't think he ever was. For one thing, "the Rodent" is not sending these transvestites to any extermination camps (at least not yet
, though she might like to
) and would hopefully be stopped long before she ever got to that level. But JB's point was that the tactics of the two demagogues ARE clearly similar to the extent that zealots like them often start by going after the "easy fruit" (people that few of the masses really like to begin with) before going on to the more marginal targets (ones on which the masses are more divided) who those "leaders" clearly personally feel are also deserving of government persecution and are probably their real and ultimate goal. At what point does the public draw the line? Its like the old story of the frog and the pot of hot water. Drop a frog in pot of boiling water and he instantly will jump out (or so the story goes) but put a frog into a pot of room temperature water and slowly bring it to a boil and that frog will stay there until it cooks to death. So this is all the more reason why we, as mongers and victims of harassment ourselves, should be more supportive of "Tranny Rights" even if we have to hold our noses while doing it.
In this case, those trannies aren't doing anything illegal, or at least they aren't being harassed for anything they are doing that is illegal. As we all know, simple prostitution in CR is not illegal.
So what is the official justification for harassing these crazy mixed girl-men? That they're committing other street crimes like small-scale robberies? Sure, SOME are, so go after those Trannies who are involved in that, HOWEVER of those out on the street after dark it is FAR more often just regularly dressed men who are committing most of that sort of crime. So shouldn't such sweeps be casting a much wider net rather than targetting a group who probably only commits those crimes out of the economic desperation born from the discrimination they already face.
Or are they targetting that particular group because they harass tourists and create a public nuisance? Again, SOME do, so go after those Trannies who are involved in that, HOWEVER, again, IMHO, there are clearly other groups who are much more of a nuisance to the tourists. The trannies mostly hang in self-protective small groups around remote corners north of the Gulch and then mostly only at night. Most tourists take cabs when they go about at night. So the only "contact" the Trannies have with any tourists are with the very few tourists that still walk between places at night and the mere view of them that the rest of us have from passing cabs. Sure, they usually will call out to you to see if you're up for any "business" if you happen to walk past when they're out, but IME they nearly always go back to whatever they were doing before as soon as they see that you aren't interested. I suspect that nearly all their business is done with otherwise closeted gay ticos and, of course, the occasional openly gay sex tourist, but then whatever "business" they wind up conducting is done somewhere entirely in private and is completely non-exploitive of either side. The Trannies biggest "crime" is really simply that they are visible to tourists (and locals) as they pass by in cars and that their mere presence is some sort of embarassment to the community. As far as groups that harass tourists are concerned, I'd much rather they focus on the beggars, fake cuban cigar sellers, viagra hustlers and other con artists that congregate outside the doors of the HDR and who very rarely ever take "NO!" as an answer. They also happen to be conveniently located all in one place so they could even more easily be swept up by the authorties.
My one last comment before I let you all go and end my latest diatribe has already been mentioned by others and that is about use of resources and law enforcement efficiency. As others have already pointed out, these massive high profile efforts never lead to many arrests (obviously because these groups are not really breaking any laws). And, unless they pass a NEW law outlawing STREET prostitution, they never will lead to many arrests. Until then IMHO the limited law enforcement resources could be MUCH better spent going after the REAL criminals (which only SOMETIMES includes the trannies). That is if they REALLY wanted to make the streets SAFER for tourists and local citizens rather than trying to implement some superficial PUBLIC RELATIONS tactic or "moral crusade".
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