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# from the b3ta inbox - 'Tranny Grandad' is not either...
From: KiltedHamish

Hi!

Re: Your Issue No. 104: 'Photos - Tranny Grandad'

That's me, and I am honoured that you believe my photo album to be representative of some of 'the coolest stuff on the net'. Thanks to you picking it up (how did you find it, by the way?), the album has received over 2,000 hits in three days - a record!!

I do, however, have a couple of complaints which I do hope you might be able to accept, and perhaps correct:

1) I am NOT a Grandad (yet), and

2) I am most certainly NOT a 'Tranny'! I am a perfectly normal, red-blooded male of Scottish parentage, who has worn the kilt from the age of about 14 - that's over 50 years!

That kilts are extremely comfortable items of clothing for us guys, is a fact that cannot be denied and, when I took early retirement, I vowed never to wear trousers again.
In July, I returned from the USA where I had been invited to make a speaking/lecture tour for three weeks because of my reputation on the Internet and in the world of equality in men's clothing rights. Kilts are fast becoming the 'in' clothing item for men in the USA, through the advent of 'Utilikilts' which are made in Seattle. (See their website at: www.utilikilts.com and take a look at their photo galleries; you'll not see any 'trannies' anywhere there. Read their Guestbook pages too. That's a 'cool' website, if ever there was one!

I have done TV and radio interviews for the BBC, have made a short documentary for the BBC website, and I appear regularly on BBC local radio in the South of England - all because of my endeavours to get men, real men, out of their uncomfortable trousers and into kilts and masculine skirts.

There are hundreds of thousands of men around the world who are now wearing kilts and skirts as an alternative to trousers, perhaps not as frequently as I do, but they certainly have them in their wardrobes for casual and formal wear. Remember too, all the pop, rock and sporting stars who regularly wear kilts or skirts when performing.

Although there are photos in my album of me wearing short skirts, I do so only in and around my home and my neighbours' homes, because they are SO much more comfortable than shorts - especially in the hot weather!

As I say, I am not a Tranny! I have no wish to be seen as a 'female' nor to become one! I do not wear make up, or female underwear nor do I associate with men who do (as far as I know!). I am simply a bog-standard guy who appreciates the comfort (and freedom) that unbifurcated garments provide, and I do hope that you can find a way to correct the impression that you erroneously presented.

Thanks very much, and keep up the good work - your website is fascinating, even to an 'oldie' like me!

Take care,
Hamish Bicknell
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 19:57, archived)
# INTERVIEW
HIM!
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 19:58, archived)
# This
is a *very* good idea.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:00, archived)
# ta,
i was proud to think of it
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:01, archived)
# oooh, seconded
ask about his trouser vows

edit: actually i may have to make this man my new hero.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:00, archived)
# INTERVIEW HIM HARD!
hehe....but seriously

do it!
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:02, archived)
# I fourth this!
hip hip hooray!!!!
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:05, archived)
# aww
that's quite a nice one.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 19:59, archived)
# I want to vow never to wear trousers again
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 19:59, archived)
# Utilitikilts
Is fantastic.

Can you 'appear' on radio?
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:00, archived)
# checks dictionary.com
"To come before the public"
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:01, archived)
# best check the definition
of "come" too
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:03, archived)
# He's missing the point completely.
If you are a man, and you wear kilts or skirts, you are a transvestite. End of.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:01, archived)
# don't generalize
kilts are a legitimate tradition in Scotland, don't disrepect it. He's not wearing bloody FLOWERY skirts or really, anything terribly feminine. If he truly was a tranny he would be at least a little feminine. And he's not. Don't be stupid.
(, Sat 20 Sep 2003, 8:10, archived)
# Bless him.
Loved "I do so only in and around my home and my neighbours' homes"

You must create a site for all of these. They're fab.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:01, archived)
# well you could say
that that's what b3ta is - a site for getting strange emails
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:04, archived)
# skirts are soooooooo much more comfortable than pants
fact
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:01, archived)
# I agree!



oh.....
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:02, archived)
# yes
!
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:10, archived)
# Eloquent, polite, well put.
Worth a mention in the newsletter, along with "he's a damn sight nicer than some of the twats who mail us".
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:01, archived)
# Yay for bekilted Scotsmen...
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:04, archived)
# seconded
kilts...*drool*
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:06, archived)
# I'd be happy do swing my sporran for you...
...any time you like ;)
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:09, archived)
# I wonder if ...
nah, i'll keep it to myself and just keep wondering....
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:05, archived)
# if that's who I think it is ...
I've had the misfortune of queuing behind him in the bank before while he was wearing one of his 'short kilts'.

The teller had tears running down her face trying not to crack up at him.

If that's not who I think it is ... there's two of the bastards! Kill it!

(although kilts are comfortable ... except in very hot weather, when worn in traditional fashion)
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:08, archived)
# Get a lightweight kilt...
...much cooler.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:11, archived)
# I know a chap
who wore a kilt every day for the first two weeks of the 1998 World Cup and it caused him so many, eh, problems that - when he got back -he had to be circumsized.

At this juncture, I'd like to point out that I wasn't at France '98.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:18, archived)
# Excuse me...
...I am going off to think about the physical implications of what you just said.
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:22, archived)
# couldn't he just
wear underpants?

I know you aren't supposed to, but given those options...
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:23, archived)
# and miss out
on a septic cock?
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:31, archived)
# And I thought...
*I* was embarrassed! :) This guy's probably got it far worse than me. HA!
(, Thu 18 Sep 2003, 20:15, archived)
# yay!
where did you find out about him?
(, Fri 19 Sep 2003, 16:23, archived)
# not a tranny!!! ha
I seem to remember viewing this guys pics and seeing him wearing womens skirts and one of them was errr *pause during subdued laughter * a schoolgirls hockey skirt!! Make your mind up chap!
(, Sat 20 Sep 2003, 20:30, archived)
# stfu
(, Sun 21 Sep 2003, 5:29, archived)
# hehee.. this guy should get in touch with
Rupert, the big bearded guy on season 7 of Survivor over here in NA. His jeans were chafing him, so one of the girls cut off part of her dress so he could have something more comfy to wear....

Kristy
(, Mon 22 Sep 2003, 15:14, archived)