I mean, I can't for the life of me understand why anyone has a problem with the fact that there are people who don't feel aligned with the gender that is associated with their biological sex and happens to feel better about being alive if they live as another gender. Even if they feel the need to go all the way with it surgically. Why does it matter to anyone?
People come up with all sorts of nonsense arguments to justify their opposition, such as that if we allow people to express whatever gender of their choosing, the next thing that will happen is that people will decide they're not human and are some sort of animal. Setting aside that this is also someone's personal choice and if they have the means and resources to do that than by all means they should, a biological male that decides to live as a female can just as well take part in society and function as normally as anyone else in their careers etc.
The other thing I hear is that kids are somehow being indoctrinated to become trans by the media and teachers, which I think is absolute nonsense and can't happen; people, even young people, that don't feel aligned with their biological sex are no more confused or misguided as people who are perfectly happy living out their lives in accordance with their biological sex. They know and understand themselves and nobody's being influenced by anyone. I can't imagine ever being convinced by anyone growing up that I should perhaps identify as female, even if I was surrounded by trans people. I also have a young son and I don't worry about this in the slightest, nor see any signs of even discussing the matter in his schooling.
And the religious arguments by Christian conservatives and evangelicals is even more preposterous because the bible says all kinds of crazy shit that none of them pay attention to, like condoning slavery (the southern slaveholders actually used the bible to justify the African slave trade in US during the American Civil War), wife beating.
I mean, when I see people, intelligent people like Jordan Peterson that are disturbed by this movement, I just don't get it. People are complex and varied and we don't need to insist that everyone fit into perfect little boxes, do we?. That's obviously not the reality.
"People are complex and varied and we don't need to insist that everyone fit into perfect little boxes, do we?"
*I'm sorry for the long post*
I love this! May I please use it?
I wish you were my father. and I'm just a gay man.
Who had family give me a rough time, I sometimes wonder, do I hate them, do they hate me, should I hate them?
To this point in life,
I'm all grown and it's no damn fuckn surprise I used to love Ecstasy.
It truly gave me all the love that as a human being deserves in the first place.
I didn't know what I was doing was or is a form of escapism.
So, then along came something that the exclusive beautiful people were doing at the afterhours.
Tina.
The late 90s to early 2000s was a very huge long summer.
It was 4 years summed up into one.
One year summed into 4 years. The time of my life.
All I was doing was filling in those voids. Hanging out my friends and dating. I even forgot I was gay.
I was looking for love and acceptance, and I was always extra careful when I it came to it.
I must have done something right because I'm still here and I am thankful for God's protection.
I was born out of wed lock. My parents were very young.
My grandparents raised me.
But my Dad and mother came back into my life.
Large family and recently had a falling out with biological mother.
I should have followed my psychologists advice. But I always had hope that one day she would grow wiser and older, but wasn't the case.
She's a narcissist. Remarried for financial support she is reincarnation of Joan Crawford, ya know the movie Mommie Dearest? "No more hangers!"
My father is unhappily remarried and has two sons. So I have 2 half brothers. Their mother, A typical evil step monster.
Brothers are now in their 20s. The smartest one became an alcoholic and dropped out university.
While his gf kept going and just graduated, and is definitely pursuing law.
She's fed up and I think it's over.
Brother had to fly back to Florida because severe allergies but she stayed in Europe to celebrate her graduation.
Ouch...
The other one got some girl pregnant. She's 3 months along.
They both still live at home.
Gf moved in
They weren't disciplined and weren't taught any obligations. So they don't help their parents.
Yet, I'm the bad guy. The black sheep.
I'm the crazy one!
But I'm definitely no saint
Oh my goodness I can make a book.
Parents, love and accept your son's and daughters.
Because if not they will find it elsewhere like I did.
Do you know how it's like to feel unsure if you are truly loved even the people you think that should don't?
I need a hug.
And I don't care if I sound too clingy or needy like the woman who bore me told living thousands of miles apart once did.