To briefly clarify one very important point of distinction on this thread... and i know some will look at this as purely linguistic semantics... but...
The "Third Sex", has *always* existed, and is NOT a function of, or an offshoot of, modern technology, signs of the times, the end is near, or anything else that modern critics and detractors continue to foist, in the very worst stereotypical terms, onto the rest of the general public... and the media doesn't help in some ways still, either....
we have always been here. Granted, we now have medicine and technology available to make such changes as have never before been possible in most ways, but we are not a "new" quantity to the human equation on this planet.
many older cultures knew us millennia before the first word of binary gender (two-gender only human race) social thinking was ever written on this planet....
before then, some ancient cultures regarded us in high esteem, or at least not to be harmed or interfered with... it's only the last couple of thousand years of socio-theological thinking that we have gone from such a place as that, to the very, very, very, bottom of the ladder rungs of social acceptance and survival. quite sad, that.
the Native Americans had names for us in some tribes - "winkte" was one... loosely translated as "two-spirit person", and were often given shamanic regard because of the unique perspectives we may encompass.
in Hindu, "Hijra"... and even now considered the best of luck to have such a transsexual person present at a new birth or wedding ceremony in their traditional culture... we were even rumored to have had a hand in the beginning of the Tantra movement in ancient yoga. Who better than someone that's got all the toys in the box, so to speak, right ? 
in ancient Greece, Rome, and Near east cultures the "Gallae"... The gallae, conjectured by some as the "transgender" priests of Kybele in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East, violated gender norms of their societies in also spectacular ways. If assigned a male gender at birth, they ritually severed their own genitalia in whole or in part, and afterwards, dressed in women's clothing, wore feminine jewelry and adornments, and spoke in a higher vocal register.
...and....certain African/other tribal cultures have been documented as taking a man child to become as a woman, to be raised as a girl for life, by the family, if there were only sons born, but no daughters to help with the household and the cooking and tending of the domestics....etc, etc...etc...
...we are not a "new" thing, and NOT just a by-product of modern technology, or modern desires, nor confused deviant thinking, as most that hate us, will still as often as possible, try to make others believe is the cause and the case... it is in fact, most likely neither...
...i knew with searing crystal clarity of full mental and emotional awareness of both conscious thought, and memory, as clear to me now as if it was still just yesterday, that i was a *GIRL* at age 4. FOUR. crawling out of my skin even then, for god to grant me the wish to wake up the next morning and be exactly the princess in every detail i knew for darned sure and really, that i was, and still am, dang it 
no sisters, no abuses, no encouragement. and i naturally did *not* develop the same as typical males, in any age group... Clearly, no one is making what some call a "sexualized lifestyle choice" at that age... not only that, but i never believed i was "born in the wrong body"... i have come to realize that for me (i am not speaking for any other here) being TS is the rarest of blessings, no matter how hard or controversial or objectified...
....and i would do it all over again a thousand times just to get it right for one day.
Therefore i also deeply believe there is great joy in sharing such a special nature with others, and also in being greatly rewarded for doing so, in modern societies...
in that way i peaceably disagree only from personal perspective with TSTS about it *all* being just a business for *all* of us...
..sex is the most basic and primal form of human communication. ..and as far as communication goes, so is writing. So can be music, or foods, or painting, and so therefore erotic life, escorting, & companionship, can also be an art - and some of the deepest, most satisfying, validating, rewarding, sharing, form of human communications possible...
The Japanese did this with the Geisha culture to a great degree - made an art of extreme hard discipline, artistic grace, and near great social acceptance of it... and it can be a life of great learning, sharing, love, great joy, great fun, great awareness, great danger, great challenge, and social controversy, and so many more things... i personally have never liked the word "donation" as i find it insulting. Have never used the term "payment", or "fee" or etc, etc.... i actually consider that part to be the "fair exchange of gifts"...
Real pre-op and non-op TS women are a rare enough segment of the human population in general, even rarer still to have an art/love/sacred relationship of true love, genuine passion, growth, and kindness and nurturance and caring in "escorting" and erotic companionships... for me, it will always be both...
...yes - i DO expect to be fairly, generously, rewarded for me being the special kind of girl that i am, but it also has to be equal, and so i strive to give every gift of my heart, mind, body, time, spirit, intellect, passion, desire, risk, and more - to my companionships, explorations, and adventures, to anyone that is also open on *any* of those wavelengths...
and in return, a proper and generous and gentlemanly person gives me the gifts of their monetary success in return...
i call it the "fair exchange of gifts", and always consider it a gift, not a "donation" (which makes us all sound rather pathetic in some ways), and one that i have ***definitely*** earned, for the challenge and privilege of being who, and what i am, and what i have given, and endured in this life, to be where i am in myself and in the world, at this moment.
food for thought... jus' sayin'...
Namaste'
LoveRespectAlways,
TheAngelaGirl
-- Modified on 2/25/2014 9:35:06 PM
Some have told me they transitioned almost as early as puberty, so maybe that is only a step away!