Everyone playing the mutilation is bad angle seems to be avoiding this question. Must be dumb luck that all of them missed the question, since I'm sure they have a consistent, well thought out evidence based response.
pffft....
did i miss the memo? what evidence-based response?
What about people who think the are Jesus Christ or John Lennon? Are they just Jesus Christ and John Lennon?
Are they? Assess them. Look at what they do.
Jesus did say that he is the Messiah and no body believed Him.
I am surprised that it took this long for the napoleon / unicorn argument to pop-up.
looks like most posts think it is easy to just walk in to a surgeon and say "i want to be a woman" (or a man) and they can go under the knife.
actually, while science studies is leaning towards in favor of the existence of teh trans, it is still quite difficult for anyone to go through the process because there is still this old thinking of "what if you are wrong" or "what if you regret it". stemming from, at least from my understand, of transitioning is a choice. well, i guess the proccess is a choice but the whole psychology and mind of a trans-person is still very real.
what i am saying is that if someone thinks that they are so-and-so (or, if you want to claim that you are napoleon, or a unicorn). if you TRUELY think that and it PAINS you to have the idea of not being able to be, you CANNOT live another minute without being - which is sort of true for a lot of MTFs and FTMs..
go and get assessed. go through the hoops which was set up. get diagnosed, start the process of transitioning.
play guitar, marry a japanese named yoko, speak french, learn strategy, turn water to wine, walk on water, fart rainbows, strap a horn to your head.... people do surgeries all the time to correct something.
it is a way to do it now. there will be newer ways in the future. just like there were other ways to deal with trans or gay people. they were given (male and MTFs, for example) testosterone; it did not work. made it worse. maybe in the future, there will be like a uterus and vagina transplant or something. i donno.
There is something called truth that it seems like people these days are willing to waffle on. It used to be people would say, "Look, you are a guy so stop playing with makeup and come with us and play horse shoes."
or, you can tell them, but still leave them be to their liking. not all boys like cars and girl like dolls. it is a wonderful playground out there...
These days I think parents don't parent. Probably because the father is not in the home as often. So we get children raising themselves to be whatever they think is pretty and they end up in bad places because nobody cared enough to teach them that life is hard enough when you go about it the right way, its even harder when you go about it not the right way.
what is the "right" way? God's way? sure, i am all for that, who gets to decide what is God's way then?
it is called experience. we should only nudge them to a direction, but ultimately, they have to walk their own road. the children are not copies of us. version 2.0.
The fanciful idea that someone can get a sex change operation and live happily ever after they find someone who will pretend they are really what they try to look like is wrong on so many levels.
why?
these people are finally true to themselves, actually.
most who transitioned did become happier. why is that wrong?
Its lying to themselves and to society and people wonder why such people have a hard time. In a nut shell, 'They're doing it wrong.'
what is the wrong that they are doing?
