TNHarley
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- Sep 27, 2012
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I dont have a problem with them being themselves.The whole transgender mentally ill debate is very interesting to me. Whether or not you believe theyāre mentally ill, itās easier to change your body to fit your mind than your mind to fit your body, no? If it makes a person happy to transform into the gender they were not born as, Iāve no problem with it bc chances are it has nothing to do with me and wonāt interfere with my life.
Seven or so years ago I had a classmate who was transgenderāwas born a man and changed (sex change and all) into a woman. None of us knew until she chose to reveal it to us via a class project. I donāt even know if a transphobic person would have known she was born a man, and hereās the thing: she used the womenās restroom and no one was the wiser. I certainly didnāt think anything of it even after she told us the truth about herself.
I empathize with the struggle of a transgender person. Luckily the woman this lady married as a man accepted her sex change and they were able to stay married. I can only imagine the emotional rollercoaster of that kind of situation.
Mentally ill or not, we canāt do brain transplants so changing the body is the next best step.
But when they start asking for special rights and stuff?
I also dont like how society normalizes it.