by Tanooki Tue Feb 13, 2018 1:51 am
Look I've thought about it for a long time, that's why I consider it a mental health problem and one that is not being properly addressed unlike a lot who just latch onto the whole hate the gay person angle and the other garbage. And yes I guess I am guilty as charged but I can't in good conscience or belief call someone born one sex the other because of some mental condition they have makes them believe they are the other. That's where I do draw the line. It's not like I have not been around with or associated friendly gay or trans people at work or out in the general public. I get along just fine, work along side of and the rest as I would any other but I do get hung up on calling someone that they genetically are not and that really is just it. It's not hate, it's not fear, it's just for a lack of a better way to discuss this in terms - medical, mental health centric, that's it.
Take sex out of it and go toward the mind. Is it generally accepted with other mental conditions to go along with it? What about people who feel they shouldn't have an arm, a leg, ears, whatever that mentally for some reason they're triggered to think it's gross and alien. They will seek out and find much trouble getting a licensed doctor to do it, but there are those who will seek and if they can't get it, lop off the offending appendage. We as society don't just tell them in advance it is ok, and sign them up next month to get something removed. How about a schizophrenic? We don't let them go along having borderline if not truly insane thoughts that would make them a danger to themselves or others. Depending on the severity of that mental issue they get psychotherapy, medication, regular out/inpatient specialty care services. I'll stop with just 2 examples, but they are a mental variance where someone feels something doesn't belong or they have abnormal thought. In both cases they're not bad people, people to fear, or people to screw with, but they are handled by not feeding into the issue. But when it comes for some reason to men/women who think they're the opposite we don't do this, we support clothing changes, hormone replacement, eventual surgery/surgeries, and just compound it by verifying it's alright and ok and normal when it really isn't. I don't know what else to tell you other than trying to use some kinds of comparisons like these but that's what it is rooted in if you believe/get it or not. That's really what it is.