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originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
a reply to: InTheLight
I didn't say that I couldn't do the same however, its the activist minority that the majority see hear and take notice of and THAT is what is causing the trouble, not trans people in general. People are basing their opinions on snippets of info, media sensationalism and only the bad things, its the way humans are sad but true. Good stuff doesn't make headlines.
Why not start weighing what really matters and what does not. Is it your war?
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
Too confusing for me; if they look and sound one gender that is how I will call them.
Arrest me, really I was trying to "injure" someone.
The world has truly gone mad and someone let it.
However, what I meant was that I can't think of a single news story about a woman who's transitioned to a man committing violent acts. It seems to invariably be a man who transitioned to woman.
Boad-do-you-see a?, your thread is going downhill fast.
... its the activist minority that the majority see hear and take notice of and THAT is what is causing the trouble, not trans people in general.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: Boadicea
Lol , REAL Women ?
originally posted by: InTheLight
a reply to: 3n19m470
And there you have it, "Let's blame not having a father"...then it becomes...."Let's blame mother".
There was a time when transitioning necessarily implied hormones and surgery, with doctors deciding who would be allowed access to them. The Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, the first official protocols for the treatment of what were then called transsexuals, were published in 1979; they required people who wanted surgery to first live in their new gender for at least a year and to produce two letters from medical professionals. Those wishing to transition also couldn’t be heterosexual according to their birth sex; anatomical males who were attracted to women—and who therefore would become lesbians—were ineligible.
The new generation of trans activists utterly rejects this model. To them, being trans is fully a matter of self-definition. Surgery is far from required; according to the Human Rights Campaign, only 33 percent of trans people have it. Indeed, one needn’t adopt any sort of physical markers in order to transition. BuzzFeed recently ran a laudatory article, “This Trans Woman Kept Her Beard and Couldn’t Be Happier,” about Alex Drummond, a trans woman who transitioned without hormones, surgery, or removing her facial hair. “What I want to do is to widen the bandwidth of gender, to make it more possible for more people to come out as a transgender, to live authentic lives,” Drummond told BuzzFeed.