Transexuals

[I_am_not_mafia]

See, I'm not like a lot of transsexuals.  I actually want my ideas, my thoughts, to be disagreed with.  I want to be challenged.  I want people to disagree with me.  If my ideas are valid, they'll stand up to criticism.  If they don't, then I need to rethink things; at very least, I need to better understand what I believe.  But what I don't want is for people to listen to me and believe me just because I'm transsexual; I want people to listen to me because I'm right, and when I'm not, I want people to correct me so that I can be right later on.  I certainly don't want to be a recreation of 'The Emperor's New Clothes.'

So, when people question the validity of transsexuality, I can respond.  I'll be the first to admit, personal experience and personal feelings are hard to put into scientific data, but when your experience is the same as countless other people's experiences that have been documented by multiple psychologists, sociologists and other researchers, it's worth paying attention to.

This attitude might be a symptom of when you transitioned. If you transitioned in a previous decade when people and even psychiatrists were not even willing to entertain the idea of transsexuality then your opinion might have been very different.

The problem is that your ideas might be valid, but if there is no evidence to refer to they can also be easily dismissed. Leaving your very existence negated. This was a real problem for those who had to fight for recognition of their medical status.

There are a lot of defensive transsexuals out there, more so the older they are. But the more progress that is made, the more the future generations can feel secure about being accepted for who they are. And hopefully have less traumatic childhoods that don't scar them for life.