There are a lot of people today that would find your radical ideas of you accepting yourself for who you are as hurtful, divisive, and non-inclusive of the marginalized minority.
So, transgender people can talk about themselves as being a male or female, but I cannot? They can change themselves in a way that they accept themselves, but I am not allowed to accept myself as I am? Now that’s just wrong. If people accept themselves as they are and are speaking for themselves and not others, that should not be an issue. Now I have an issue, because I’m not allowed to accept myself for who and what I am.
Did I get that right anyone?
No, that’s totally wrong, because people should be able to accept themselves for what they are, as well as accept others who want to change themselves into what they believe they are. People should be able to speak for themselves and that was what I was doing. I was not talking for my transgender inlaw.
@mriana To be clear, I’m not seriously attacking you on this. ?
I’m kidding in some ways, but I’m also dead serious. The big push for a while now is that there are not just 2 genders, but multiple genders that you can choose to be. Mriana I was curious to know if you were aware of this and wanted to get your perspective. Have you heard of the multiple genders?
The pendulum always eventually swings to center. Hopefully it does this soon, because I’m not changing who I am and what I’ve always been. They can if they want. I don’t care if they do, because they aren’t hurting anyone and I’m not hurting anyone by being female. I do not want to choose to be anything else because that would not be me. It’s the same for those who want to transform to male or female or binary or whatever the heck they think they are. I don’t care, as long as I can be me and stay me and that’s all anyone wants to be.
The LGBT+ certainly supports this hence the “+” at the end.
That’s the alphabet soup. Sometimes they write LBGTQ and then add more letter to cover more… I don’t know. After LBG it makes no sense to me. sigh. Maybe I’ve become an old fart.
@lausten
No one assigned me a gender.
Did you fill out your own birth certificate. Some people are born a girl, but their certificate says something else.
There’s no reason to change it because that’s what I am- female. I was NOT assigned, despite what other may say or believe. Notice, I have been saying “I” and “me” all this time. What I am saying about myself has nothing to do with you. If you believe you are not male or that you were assigned, well that’s your business. I really don’t care what you may believe about your own gender. If you believe you were assigned, then do whatever you want to do, but as for me, I was NOT assigned. I developed in the womb as female and I was born female, I live female and always will live female to the day I die. I was NOT assigned because that’s who I am. I’m not transgender, but if I were, I can see how they would believe they were assigned and they can say they were if they want, but as I said, I was not. There’s a big difference there. One cannot be assigned something they already were and always have been.
Now here’s what I want to know- I want to get down to the science and find out how many transgender people have a chromosome that is different from their externals. In which case, XXY and XYX, and XYY, and even XXX could have various other health and mental issues. Some can have mental disabilities, learning disabilities, health issues, physical oddities, the list goes on and on, but for those who do not appear to have any issues, but want to transform (what’s the correct word?) to the opposite gender, it would be interesting to see what that chromosome is for them. I want scientific research done, but research that doesn’t do them physical harm which also includes them volunteering to participate in the research. Now there is some research that would not be ethical, unless it’s post-mortem, but even that would need consent before death, such as donating their bodies to scientific research. I really want some scientific studies done on this subject, which includes chromosomal studies. If they have one set of externals and they have XY, then what makes them feel they aren’t male? If they don’t having a match, how did it happen the two are different? If there are no differences in the brain (I need to find the psychological article that said there is no male or female brain), then what causes this dysmorphia? (yes, gender dysmorphia is still in the DSM-V) Why is there incongruity between the physical and psychological? Is there a psychology behind it? We already know people fall on a spectrum, but we also know mental illness is the extreme of the norm. HOWEVER, we are not talking about mental illness, even though transgenderism falls within the both medical and psychological. One cannot get the surgery to change themselves without living as the opposite sex for a period of time and going through a battery of psychological testing, as well as medical stuff too. So just what is the physical and psychological makeup of it all? I really want to get down to the science of it all. Keep in mind, I have a bachelors (B.S. degree) in psychology, so asking the science behind it all is all part of my curiosity with humans. Of course, I’ve always said, I could get More of it (MS) and Piled high and Deep (PhD) and still not understand humans. I’d probably go crazy if I tried to understand humans.