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originally posted by: Vroomfondel
There are two genders. Thats it. No more options. Everything else is identity issues.
If a person thinks they are a hedgehog you give them a mirror and a picture of a hedgehog and let them work it out. If they cant, that is a mental disorder.
A person of one gender cannot simply say, ""I think I am the other gender," and suddenly become that gender. You can have surgery, you can have hormone therapy, you can dress differently, you can behave differently. But in the end, no matter how hard you try, you have not become the other gender. You are still, and always will be, a version of your original gender that has been modified to appear as the opposite gender.
originally posted by: Robotswilltakeover
Would you say that someone "post-op" should use the bathroom of their genitalia?
originally posted by: Robotswilltakeover
I hope you realize what happens when a man doesn't have testicles. Study up on your own. Maybe you skimmed over the details I've written about the Hijras and other traditional trans-classes. Their entire physical body becomes more like that of a woman, so that their muscles are weaker, their skin is softer, they grow breasts, they lose facial hair, and so on.
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
There are two genders. Thats it. No more options. Everything else is identity issues.
If a person thinks they are a hedgehog you give them a mirror and a picture of a hedgehog and let them work it out. If they cant, that is a mental disorder.
A person of one gender cannot simply say, ""I think I am the other gender," and suddenly become that gender. You can have surgery, you can have hormone therapy, you can dress differently, you can behave differently. But in the end, no matter how hard you try, you have not become the other gender. You are still, and always will be, a version of your original gender that has been modified to appear as the opposite gender.
Thats SEXES. once again someone who is confused on what GENDER actually is.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
There are two genders. Thats it. No more options. Everything else is identity issues.
If a person thinks they are a hedgehog you give them a mirror and a picture of a hedgehog and let them work it out. If they cant, that is a mental disorder.
A person of one gender cannot simply say, ""I think I am the other gender," and suddenly become that gender. You can have surgery, you can have hormone therapy, you can dress differently, you can behave differently. But in the end, no matter how hard you try, you have not become the other gender. You are still, and always will be, a version of your original gender that has been modified to appear as the opposite gender.
Thats SEXES. once again someone who is confused on what GENDER actually is.
No, its genders. Just because some people insist it include self-identity does not make it so. Science and the dictionary go no further than to acknowledge the latter as a side note. Your gender and your sex are the same thing. The only place it isn't is in today's pc world that tries to legitimize the identity aspect by appropriating a scientific term as its own. Remember, this gender identity culture is brand new. The terms gender and sex have been around a long time and no one debated their meaning until now.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
The only place it isn't is in today's pc world that tries to legitimize the identity aspect by appropriating a scientific term as its own. Remember, this gender identity culture is brand new. The terms gender and sex have been around a long time and no one debated their meaning until now.
originally posted by: Robotswilltakeover
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
The only place it isn't is in today's pc world that tries to legitimize the identity aspect by appropriating a scientific term as its own. Remember, this gender identity culture is brand new. The terms gender and sex have been around a long time and no one debated their meaning until now.
Your statements show a lack of historical knowledge. Trans-identity has existed for thousands of years across a wide variety of cultures all over the world. It was Christianity and Islam that attempted to erase them, but since a small percentage of any population identifies as trans when that freedom is available, it cannot be erased. Christianity and Islam simply pushed most of them into the closet.
originally posted by: Strate8
While it's about trans use of restrooms, the issue is really separately about predators taking advantage of laws. That was why Texas rejected the bathroom bill. It was poorly written and did nothing to take into account womens safety as well.
originally posted by: Robotswilltakeover
a reply to: Skywatcher2011
No, you wouldn't go legally after them, because then everyone would know you were sexually attracted to an XY individual, which would make you officially homosexual according to your own definition.