I recently watched this video about James Charles Harries - a former child prodigy millionaire who, by now, is grown up and changed his gender into female.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lma7Lb6aMfs
I don't know why but it got me thinking about gender, what it feels to have a certain gender so much so that you feel you're trapped in wrong gender body? I mean I am a man, but I can't say that I particularly feel my gender, like I don't feel the color of my skin or color of my eyes. I mean what exactly do these people specifically miss from other gender? Most of these guys when they change sex they get big boobs, I guess to have a big cleavage - is that what being woman is? Having boobs and wearing dresses? How big difference is that? Sure people look at you differently, but do you feel differently? Lots of men have big "female" boobs it doesn't make them feel much femaleish.
Certainly there is a rare medical condition that a person gets born and looks like a woman up until one point when doctor discovers that she is actually he in the inside and it can get really serious. I've heard about a "woman" that didn't discover she was actually a man up until few days before her wedding after which her fiancee broke up with her and she started drinking. Perhaps that is different, because as a person of a certain gender you build relationships with other people on account of your gender and it is certainly hard to have a normal life if you look like a woman on the outside, but having a penis in the inside, because you are actually both things at the same time and at a certain point in your life a society demands of you to choose side. Those are extreme cases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lma7Lb6aMfs
I don't know why but it got me thinking about gender, what it feels to have a certain gender so much so that you feel you're trapped in wrong gender body? I mean I am a man, but I can't say that I particularly feel my gender, like I don't feel the color of my skin or color of my eyes. I mean what exactly do these people specifically miss from other gender? Most of these guys when they change sex they get big boobs, I guess to have a big cleavage - is that what being woman is? Having boobs and wearing dresses? How big difference is that? Sure people look at you differently, but do you feel differently? Lots of men have big "female" boobs it doesn't make them feel much femaleish.
Certainly there is a rare medical condition that a person gets born and looks like a woman up until one point when doctor discovers that she is actually he in the inside and it can get really serious. I've heard about a "woman" that didn't discover she was actually a man up until few days before her wedding after which her fiancee broke up with her and she started drinking. Perhaps that is different, because as a person of a certain gender you build relationships with other people on account of your gender and it is certainly hard to have a normal life if you look like a woman on the outside, but having a penis in the inside, because you are actually both things at the same time and at a certain point in your life a society demands of you to choose side. Those are extreme cases.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
