Ignis Fatuus said:
The choice would be to dress as the other gender or take elective cosmetic surgery.
As opposed to killing themselves? Living a life of mystery and depression? Never being able to be who they really are? In those cases, is that
really a choice?
Special legal protection would refer to the fact that you can have your sex legally changed. I don't think that should be allowed, for the same reasons that black people who want to be white cannot get their fantasy recognized by law.
So, wait... are you saying that people who are transgender are looking to live out a fantasy?
Additionally, I don't like the idea that you can get surgery and then start up a sexual relationship with some guy who has no idea that you are biologically a man. I believe that the partner has a right not to be deceived in such a manner. You have the right to make whatever alternations you want to your own body, and to engage in whatever consensual activities with fully informed partners that you like--but roping someone in dishonestly, is, I think, indecent.
Personally, I'm of the mindset that if you've transitioned from one gender to another, and you enter into a serious relationship with somebody, you should be honest about that fact, just like you should be honest about all parts of yourself.
BUT... let me ask an honest question here: what are the biological differences between a man and a woman? I mean, the ones that really matter? Naughty bits? Those can be added / removed. Body size differences? We're made of the same stuff, it's just some of us grow bigger/wider than others, and there are plenty of men who are built more feminine and women who are built more masculine. Body hair? Some men have very little, some women have lots.
My point is, biologically there aren't a lot of differences between men and women. We all start the same, and then develop differently, but that's true
even in the confines of one gender. Beyond the parts and pieces that exist for sexual reproduction, we aren't really
all that different, so the real division between men and women isn't just physical, but also mental and emotional. I think that, if you look at what separates the sexes, the physical aspect is the easiest to understand but also probably the least important. That is the very essence of what are the root issues for somebody who is transgender: the mental and emotional side of themselves is way, way stronger than the physical.
I think that's one of the fundamental arguments people have against the transgender community: you can get a sex change, but you're still pretending to be something that you're not. The problem is, the difference between genders isn't just as easy as if you have a penis or a vagina.
Kastro said:
lol @ people calling her "she".. getting a sex change doesnt change what you really are.
cant change chromosomes sorry
Well look... a great example of just what I was talking about.
