Little Bo Peep

Why is a girl writing to me? Did she just happen to veer off course in her quest for guys, stumble upon my profile, and decide that I look like good friend material? She wrote to me about board games, and I'm tempted to read her message, but first I need to check this chick out. I need to find out if she's lesbian or if she's just striking up an innocent conversation.

I check out her profile and first look at her photos. She's a dork. Nearly all of her photos are taken at an anime or comic-con convention and she's dressed up, as what appears to be, Little Bo Peep. And she's kind of a dog.  Long frizzy red hair, tall and skinny, with jacked up teeth and glasses.  In fact, aside from the dress she doesn't look all that feminine.  I glance at her basic info:

26/ M/ Straight/ Single

"M"? As in "male"??  Wait, wait, wait...  He's wearing a pink dress in two of the pictures!  In another he's wearing a pink track jacket... with a choker!  This is just a case of classic ugly person syndrome, right?  A transgender didn't just message me, did he? I frantically go back to his profile and start to scroll down.

His headline: I am cute, transgendered, and cuddly

Oh my.

"I am an interesting and unique individual who doesn't follow the normal gender rules... The first things people usually notice about me are my height, my hair color, my glasses, or the fact that I'm transgendered... The six things I could never do without would be my computer, friends, religion, transgendered expression, and eyesight... The most private thing I'm willing to admit here is I'm transgender, but I don't plan on getting a sex change. Mostly because I realized it would create more problems and questions than it could ever solve.... You should message me if you love a guy who's not afraid to wear a skirt..."

Well, that solves that.

Now I feel bad.  Not because he took an interest in me, I can't help it if he has good taste ;) Instead, I feel bad for him because it must be hard to find love.  I can't imagine many straight girls being interested in a guy in a dress or a lesbian being interested in a girl with guy parts. Who's he supposed to be with?  A transsexual woman who wants to be a man?  Maybe there's a dating site for that... Curious, I check to see.  Turns out they exist and there's quite a few actually.  Maybe I'll send a few his way, because everyone deserves to be loved.  Even if you do go to anime conventions.