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originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
First...this is not meant as an insult to anyone and I have nothing against transgender people. I must have read or heard this same type of statement ten times in the past week for some reason...so...
No need to reply.
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
Go start a blog if you don't want people to reply to your bat# crazy view of the world.
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
originally posted by: Hecate666
OP, you are worrying about semantics. I know what you are saying, that no outside fiddling can make you into something else than what you were born...apparently.
I say, it can. From a Neuroscientific point of view, hormones are the ones in charge. Literally everything you do and feel and think is influenced by hormones [and other neurotransmitters]. It is not influenced by 'things' such as penises or breasts.
Let that sink in.
If you have breasts [and some men do, read up on it], they feel very ashamed. Why? Because they are not women yet they are growing breasts. These are ususally removed surgically.
But, OP said if you are born a certain way that is what you are?
So if a guy with breasts calls himself a man, he is LYING according to OP. He should call himself a Heshe or they are LYING ba5tards. Even if they feel 100% male, they are not correctly born and hence shouldn't tell us how they feel inside but should name what is there. Heshe. Also just chopping breasts of will not make them male...[even though they are].
Back to hormones. Hormons have 100% grip on you, your body and your feelings. Your genitals have 0% influence on anything, because they are just meat extensions.
So if I feel like a woman inside and my hormones and neurotransmitters are telling me that I am a woman, then it bloody doesn't matter what chromosomes I have as they are just building-plans that do not take hormones into account.
So, forget your blooming chromosomes. They are have no other job than to build what is given to them. Hail to the hormones and neurotransmitters which are what makes your meat-suit into a human being.
Chop off some bits or add some, so it fits with who your SOUL really is, does make you into what you desire to be!
May I be so bold and say" "Sod the chromosomes", they've done their bit and they were wrong.
I believe my OP said it simply...if you are born male or born female, a sex change operation doesn't change what you are, male or female. If you disagree...fine. Are you saying that a male can change into a female by means of an operation? An actual female?
Apparently you disagree. No problem...happens all the time
And as much as you seem to dislike the facts, your quote really says it all:
"...modifying the body to better match the psychological gender identity."
It doesn't say change them from a male to a female.