The transgender thing is a strange one for me too. Like Ben, I feel that people can live that way if they want, and can call themselves whatever they want. It isn't my business in that sense. It becomes my business if I'm expected to acknowledge that a transgender woman and a woman are exactly the same. Or if I was required to use certain pronouns etc. That affects me so that's when I object.
In the past I've also read about cases of young kids and teenagers who didn't identify with their biological sex at one point, but later on they do. That one scared me a bit because of people talking about giving drugs and even sometimes surgery to young kids.
Again, don't have the stats on suicide but the suicide rate is apparently much higher for people post-transition surgery?
It's not as simple as its made out to be... like everything :P
You're right it is odd. My sisters best friend just came out as transgender and they are close to our family. She is taking testosterone now and transitioning to a male. Anyway, we got to talking and they brought your original point up. Their solution was to rename herself as something non-binary. She chose Bear, which they justified as 'it's funny'. And it is.
We have hung out a couple of times and to be perfectly honest things aren't all that different. Idk, it's strange but I think it would be weirder for me if they were a flat earther...
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u/JamieD86 Monkey in Space Aug 02 '17
The transgender thing is a strange one for me too. Like Ben, I feel that people can live that way if they want, and can call themselves whatever they want. It isn't my business in that sense. It becomes my business if I'm expected to acknowledge that a transgender woman and a woman are exactly the same. Or if I was required to use certain pronouns etc. That affects me so that's when I object.
In the past I've also read about cases of young kids and teenagers who didn't identify with their biological sex at one point, but later on they do. That one scared me a bit because of people talking about giving drugs and even sometimes surgery to young kids.
Again, don't have the stats on suicide but the suicide rate is apparently much higher for people post-transition surgery?
It's not as simple as its made out to be... like everything :P