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Originally Posted by Baler
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You totally missed the meaning in what I said.
This has a double meaning in how I used it. It is acceptance for both/any way of life. You only think I meant it in an anti <insert way of life here> way.
I have no problem with what ever people want to be. Just don't want people to confuse the youth before the youth can grow old enough to make educated and natural decisions for themselves.
The very fast that this is a topic of national perhaps world wide debate means that these ideas are being introduced to young audiences who have not fully developed.
i can't stop bad parenting but I think we need to look towards the future rather then what my physical being is now.
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A perfectly normal opnion. I can't imagine not fixing what is wrong with me, and for a very long time i was very afraid of it and afraid to be. Not because of your thinking, but because we didn't know anybetter and because "trans people were perverts and clowns" (well some of them are) but I think the greatest fear for people is that "it's ok to be trans" and in the long run that won't change what gender anyone is going to be.
Because in a world were transition didn't exist and being "trans" was bad and being a transvestite or / cross dresser/drag queen or just plain gay or queer was bad, it wasn't an option and even though those things don't have much to do with my actual condition and circumstances. I didn't know any better and so as a trans woman, i was hurt badly because of the fear of transness and transphobia because it was so bad to even talk about it. I didn't even realize I could have GRS till the 2010's. Talk bout levels of ignorance. Not everyone feels the need to transition as strongly as I did. And certainly kids need to take their time and people need to understand and learn to defend themselves before being given magic pills and surguries. And a lot of the trans women I talk to agree that in most cases it's medically neccissary to give people experience full time. It was horrific trying to be full time without any of the neccissary medical procedures I needed, but at the same time, it really had to be done in my case there was no "not transitioning" for some ok... but it's pretty obvious when someone needs to vs they just want attention or are acting out or confused, and there is A LOT that can be done to work towards transition, especially the younger someone is that doesn't require medical intervention that is permanent, and so, finding a balance is very important because certainly people could attempt to transition for all the wrong reasons.
Now I know a trans woman in DC who has commented that a there's too many trust fund babies who had GRS and aren't happy/didn't know what the needed, are entitled to being XYZ, and I get that sentiment, but that's not a problem of legality and information freedom, that's a problem of cultural me-too-ism and if it wasn't trans it'd be something else. Obviously those people weren't cisnormative but because we have really bad child abuse and neglect problems in this country, those kids can't make informed choices and some parents are batshit crazy
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