AnimusRex
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The opinion of one who really has no dog in this fight- I am not trans, don't cross dress, don't chase after either. There are a dizzying array of options out there- heteros who cross dress, gays who cross dress, transgenders who cross dress, pre-op, post-op, those who identify as women, those who identify as men but prefer to live as women, and a multitude of variations if the different factors. Ultimately, though I don't care. I really don't. What someone calls themself doesn't affect me, and I don't get my boxers in a bunch over it, whether it is biologically true or not. What I do care about, is living in a society where we value and respect each other's personal freedom, and right to pursue happiness as they see it. This isn't a platitude, this is the core of our civic beliefs. I do get my boxers in a bunch when I see the eternal blooming of snobbery, only this time it is those with XX DNA somehow considered more twue, more authentic than those who transgender. The snobbery is usually veiled under the earnest desire to "set the record straight" or "Truthfullness". Of course on a strictly scientific level, yes, XX Dna means one thing, XY transgendered means another. Got it. And some transgender people are in fact entangled in other pychological issues, that may or may not be helped by gender reassignment. But it isn't your life. Really, it isn't. If it irks you that some guy is running around after reassignment surgery telling everyone that he is a female, and not sending out an officewide email saying "Hey I got my dick cut off, just thought you might like to know" then I think the problem is with you, not them. Setting other people straight on what their sexual identity is, is as offensive as setting them straight about what their religious belifs should be. Let it go. Just let. it. go.
< Message edited by AnimusRex -- 10/21/2009 9:52:23 AM >
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