(June 13, 2015 at 11:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If you don't think a man should should be traumatized by that situation, then fuck you too. I'm a man, and if that happened to me, I would be traumatized. And I can speak on behalf of many of my male friends, and say that they would be, too.
That's the thing-- you don't get to say who is/isn't or should be/shouldn't be traumatized. If you don't think the majority of men would be traumatized if their hot date turned out to have a penis, then you are either living under a rock, or a liar.
Speak for yourself. I know that a lot of men can see past the extra appendages and treat a transwoman as a woman.
After all, what really matters here? Chromosones? What about women that are XY and were assigned female at birth? What about women who have extra chromosones? And you know that not all of those XX and XY chromosones are actually anything to do with gender don't you?
What about the ability to have children? Are infertile women no longer women? What about women who have had their breasts removed or female genital mutilation? The only thing that really matters is the brain. Although it's culturally quite common to objectify women and think of them in terms of their bodies, who any of us are is determined by the brain. Not by a soul, or by social class or our skin, but by our brains. This is why neurodegenerative diseases can rob people of who they are.
