(October 12, 2011 at 7:13 pm)Vaeolet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Screw such 'disorders'. It implies that people are broken, that they need to be somehow fixed', that something isn't 'right' about them. Unless it is life threatening or excessively painful: let them decide. If they are stupid: call them stupid. If they are fat: call them fat. Don't affix them the stupid title of 'disordered' as if it meant anything in a universe so absurdly beautiful as ours.
Pet peeve.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you were not born with the genitals/reproductive organs of both sexes correct Vaeolet?
I've watched a few documentaries and I think the term "disordered" is something I'd be willing to bet that a lot of those people would identify with. Besides, it's just a word to describe something that doesn't function properly in nature ... something that medical science can possibly help to correct. I guess I don't see why you're offended by this? Many of these people appear to be suffering and suicidal - I'd say disordered is a fair, and even kind description of an anomaly in nature that causes so much human suffering.