"Yes, many TG people do find images of "she-males" distasteful and offensive when they are presented for the purpose of appealing to fetishistic types. We are talking about real people here, with a real problem, not a fairy tale chimera." Ok, sure--just as some women find the fetishizing of women's bodies offensive, etc., as I said. But is the TG community entitled to greater sensitivity in that regard than everyone else? If that's the reason the image was deleted, shouldn't all nudes be deleted? And what of the booming "she-male"/TG sex industry? My guess is that for every TG person who objects to the sexualizing of TGs in media, there are others who see it as a welcome step in the process of "mainstreaming." "However, many also turn to that fetishistic expression as a means of validation." This has been more my experience with TG acquaintances (a good-sized TG community out here). It's also not necessarily true that all nude images of TG persons are fetishistice--depends who's making them and why. There's a great movie--a kind of TG autobiography--that came out a few years ago called "Hedwig and the Angry Inch": I'd recommend it highly--it's funny, smart and incredibly brave.