(February 6, 2019 at 11:23 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I don't think that you're pulling punches with your misapprehensions on the dangers of trans people or being trans..I'm certain that you're pulling punches on yourself.
If you were as critical of your own comments as you are with the very notion of being transgender, I think you might find yourself reaching an entirely different conclusion about transgender people and the nature of the relationship between normative constructs and psychological distress.
"Normative constructs."
The fact is, that most people are normal, and some people aren't. There's no construct involved.
Most people are clearly identifiable as male or female-- both by the sex or by their "gender." They are, in fact, the norm, and they cover 99% of the population. If you include sexual preference, then male or female heterosexuals still fill up over 90% of the spectrum. Look at the Bell curve, and there they all are, going about their breeding lives.
As a social species, we are uncomfortable when we are abnormal in some way, and not only by gender. We don't like to be at the tail ends of the Bell curve, where things get lonely and cold. People who are very tall or short, fat or thin, who do not interact with others socially well, and so on-- these people are all outside the norm, and all feel very uncomfortable.
None of this is a construct-- it's intrinsic to the nature of our species. What IS a construct is value judgments. You'll note that at no point in any of this have I said that it is bad to be trans or anything else. I've never said we should enforce that feeling of isolation by rejecting people's humanity.
