I have 2 tattoos and I only regret one of them and may have it lasered off next year. It's a military tat and I want it moved. After having it lasered off, I'll have it redone in a better position and with a more skilled artist.
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What whacky illogical logic... LOL
Parents support their kids... ergo: you do not have kids.
So people should hide who they are, their feelings because others will bully them? That seems rather regressive. Why should anyone conform to societal pressure to "fit in" simply because they may get bullied by the ignorant? Wearing glasses when contacts are an alternative could easily get people bullied, but many still choose to wear glasses anyway. Showing you are smart easily gets you bullied in many high schools, but that doesn't mean smart kids/teens should hide their intelligence because others will bully them. We, as a society, should concentrate on stopping the bullies rather than making that an excuse to make others live as something they aren't, in a way that makes them unhappy or worse, hiding themselves.
It happens more often than many know about, usually because "many" want to live in denial, close their eyes to learning new things.
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You don't know it isn't something they are naturally born with, that this isn't something natural about them. You are trying to make that claim that this is taught, something else that develops, just as those against homosexuals have done for centuries.
That's because you avoid such communities, whereas we are involved with them, directly or indirectly. We are going to see and learn of more than you will.
Legally, it does. Are you unaware that even before same sex marriage became legal, if someone transitioned legally to the opposite sex that they could then marry someone who was of the opposite sex as their current legal sex? So in that case, either way and in both ways, transgender people were part of the first same sex marriages legal in the US.
You two are actually on the same page. His whole point was that nothing about SRS puts anyone other the the person receiving it at risk of anything.....save maybe butthurt feelings.
This is not true. Some do feel that way. But many also understand not wanting to or even being able to date them because they are transgender. That doesn't mean that it won't affect them though. It certainly would hurt since it is a type of rejection. But many also understand that there are some people who will date them, who will not allow that to come as a barrier to a good relationship.
Or even *shutter* switch men, who can go back and forth between dominant and submissive .......at will!It's because they have a very narrow view of what it means to "be a man."
Don't tell them that male subs exist.
This is where you are missing the whole basis of what transgenderism is.. And admittedly, it is what makes the whole issue confusing. There are transgender people who maintain many of the "gender roles" of their birth sex. That doesn't stop the issue they have of the GD. Just as there are many cis-men who engage in "female gender roles", so too do many trans men maintain the "female gender roles" they were engaging in. Their gender is a part of who they are, not what they do. But because so many people have this stereotype of what each sex is "supposed" to do, they are stuck on the idea that anyone who doesn't follow these as somehow wrong.
That was, and still is by many bigots, said about homosexuality as well. What is your evidence that one is natural and the other isn't?
Actually it is. There is a presumption that people of larger sizes are unhealthy when many of them are not. That's not to say that many who are of a certain weight and build are not that way due to poor health. But by far it is not even a majority.
Homosexual means someone attracted to the same sex/gender as yourself. If you identify as the same sex/gender as those you are attracted to, then that makes you homosexual. Just like if you identify as the opposite sex/gender as those you are attracted to, that makes you heterosexual. This actually is not a hard concept.
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A tattoo is also a thing that a lot of people never regret in life. Some only regret certain ones and not others. There is no denial that people will medically transition when they should not have. It's not like transgenderism isn't the only thing to be misdiagnosed and the solutions taken are the wrong ones. This is especially true if the person in question in self diagnosing for full or even partial SRS. Simply presenting does no harm.
Who's 'we'?
You should understand how the lockstep liberals treat dissident liberals. They simply can't have that.
You seem to be mistaking some examples for the whole. SRS very rarely happens prior to 18. Hormone blockers are up in the air, but then again, many area where we are just starting out in, in the medial/psychological field, have false starts. Most parents who accept their children as transgender or non-binary simply let them present as they wish, without trying to force them into any given mold. A child could be simply non-binary, but is swinging the full other way because of the push to be the birth sex instead of who and what they are. Most of the transgender community does have issues with starting kids on the medical path before adulthood, with a closer split on the PB's for a wide variety of reason. Don't mistake far left whacko for the overall left, any more than far right whackos should be mistaken for the overall right.
This would include deformities as well. Beauty is a subjective values, therefore there is no standard. There might be a commonly agreed upon opinion for a given snapshot in history. For example, given you mentioning fat earlier, being fat was once considered a beauty sign. As was a singular mole on the face.
They are not even a majority and they engage in faulty thinking. The very first point they almost always forget is that while someone may be attracted to a given sex or gender, they are not attracted to all of that given sex or gender. There are trans women who are nowhere near attractive to me, and trans women who are. Same can be said for cis women. But in the end each person has a variety of factors that plays into what attracts them. For some genitals are a part of that, whether past or present. That is not bigotry. In fact, the presumption that you should be attracted to someone because they fit one of your factors is the actual bigotry.
Homosexual means someone attracted to the same sex/gender as yourself. If you identify as the same sex/gender as those you are attracted to, then that makes you homosexual. Just like if you identify as the opposite sex/gender as those you are attracted to, that makes you heterosexual. This actually is not a hard concept.
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What does transgender mean?Transgender is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Gender identity is a person's internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or boy or girl.) For some people, their gender identity does not fit...