don't care. it's a well documented medical phenomenon and it's not my business to decide for them who they should be called - if they want to be called something, i'll try my best to call them it. if they want to be referred to as a certain gender, i'll refer to them as such.
Best response and perfectly sums up how I feel. It takes a lot of effort to be hateful yeah? Just meeting people halfway and referring to them how they want to be referred to is easier.
it's also kinda of sad to me that people don't take the fact too seriously that these people need psychiatric help... there has to be another solution other than mutilating your body. as far as i'm aware, the only thing they do to 'resolve' their problem is gender reassignment surgery. a statistic i read states that up to 20% of patients regret their decision.
i believe we need to put more focus on a viable treatment for these people.
Eh, this is an area which definitely warrants more research. Maybe there is a better alternative for some people than gender reassignment surgery, but plenty of transgendered folk find it fulfilling. This comes off as "wow these people get surgery, GROSS!!" rather than legitimate interest in it from a medical or psychological standpoint.
I know one transgendered person. They are pretty normal, just trying to get by how they feel they should. I think it would be pretty exhausting being in that situation. The body dysmorphia is bad enough, but then you've got goons who think they're in any position to criticize you for it.
