I know it's recognised as a disorder, but we're supposed to teach people to be happy with themselves. I mean we try and promote this idea that guys and girls don't have to conform to gender stereotypes. So why then is there such thing as being a woman trapped inside a man's body? I don't know, I guess I just don't understand it.
It would be interesting to see how it impacts on his daughter. His wife is supporting him through it. I couldn't even imagine what that would be like for her.
Well I don't think this is right at all then. If he was born a woman in a man's body how exactly did he manage to have a family? Wouldn't that have been hell, being the male figure when he feels he isn't a male? Or does this disorder suddenly appear at a certain age?
And his wife. Well it seems pretty clear she married a man and so is attracted to men. If her husband is now a woman how would she be attracted to him/her at all? Does she just suddenly become bi?
And wow, he had a daughter. If he managed to be a good father it seems he was quite good at being a man and a father, something I doubt a woman would be as good at.
It's also funny how this disorder seems to affect men a lot more than women. I don't care if some people think they are the opposite gender when they come of age and undergo gender reassignment surgery whatever. But this man spends all this time living as a man, happy as a man, raises a family as a man then suddenly decides he has this disorder? And if he had this disorder for a long time, why the hell did he get married and have a kid?
And yes, we try and teach people to be happy with themselves, have good self-esteem, that everyone is beautiful etc But then promote crazy surgery in which you can change any part of you, even become a different person if you are the slightest bit unhappy with your looks, or genitals. And yes I can't stand it when they let pre-pubescent children make this decision either.
Did you know that people can genetically be the opposite sex as what their bodies display? Take a look at that South African Olympic runner who was genetically neither clearly a female or a male. It's a grey area at times - and that's leaving out all the purely psychological stuff - and if society can cater for these people then why shouldn't it?
(The idea of "happiness" as a goal in life or a state of being is a new and quite alien concept to most of the population of the world.)
That's different. This isn't genetics. I'd rather society cater to those whose health is in actual danger rather than to people who spend thousands on gender reassignment surgery. If it's psychological, the bigger disorder seems to be 'thinking' you are the opposite sex. Why don't they try to help people to be happier with their own body and appearance?
If you didn't know you'd hit it.
That's just it. If most us did know no way would we 'hit it'. Does that make us homophobes? Does that make us unaccepting to transgender people? Or do we actually believe that they are still male? Psychologically they are still the same, always a woman, according to them. But when they were a man another man wouldn't date them and when they are a 'woman' most men still wouldn't date them.
