RE: Transexuals
April 19, 2016 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2016 at 7:18 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
Okay, since you have trouble imagining the "wake up with a vagina" scenario, let's try it the other way.
You wake up one day, just as you are. Just as you have always been. You KNOW who you are...
...yet everyone you meet calls you Susan. They refer to you as "she" and "her", and expect you to wear dresses. When you explain that you're really a guy named Paul, you get the most horrible reactions, are cast aside from friends and family and social circles, and are subject to constant fear of attack if you try to just do what you do.
Yes, I'm proposing a similar "magical" scenario, where the roles are reversed, but you really need to understand that in every way that your brain tells you who you are, including what your sense of gender is, they feel the same... the only difference being that their bodies develop according to the chromosomes, not according to the DNA-set which dictates how the "normal" (I use that word loosely, since everything that happens in biology is "normal"; some things just occur more commonly than others) brain develops. Instead, your genetics/epigenetics caused your brain to develop in the way that the female brain normally develops, instead.
Try... try very very hard... to listen to what the trans community is actually telling you about their experiences, instead of projecting your own opinions onto them and failing to empathize. That's why we constantly have to reprimand the theists who come here for doing to us, when they say we "really" worship Satan and are angry at god, or whatever.
You wake up one day, just as you are. Just as you have always been. You KNOW who you are...
...yet everyone you meet calls you Susan. They refer to you as "she" and "her", and expect you to wear dresses. When you explain that you're really a guy named Paul, you get the most horrible reactions, are cast aside from friends and family and social circles, and are subject to constant fear of attack if you try to just do what you do.
Yes, I'm proposing a similar "magical" scenario, where the roles are reversed, but you really need to understand that in every way that your brain tells you who you are, including what your sense of gender is, they feel the same... the only difference being that their bodies develop according to the chromosomes, not according to the DNA-set which dictates how the "normal" (I use that word loosely, since everything that happens in biology is "normal"; some things just occur more commonly than others) brain develops. Instead, your genetics/epigenetics caused your brain to develop in the way that the female brain normally develops, instead.
Try... try very very hard... to listen to what the trans community is actually telling you about their experiences, instead of projecting your own opinions onto them and failing to empathize. That's why we constantly have to reprimand the theists who come here for doing to us, when they say we "really" worship Satan and are angry at god, or whatever.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
