Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria
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If you think about who is against trans-rights (conservatives, the alt-right, certain religions) and who is in favor of trans-rights (doctors, psychologists, the majority of feminists) it correlates to who you would expect to be right about related issues. I can understand hesitancy considering how different transexuality is so different from established thinking, similar to the race myth, but I think anyone looking deeply into the issue in good faith is likely to reach the same conclusion.
The recent interest in doing so should raise questions. Why are so many young people including pubescent/prepubescent children now deciding they are trans? What are the motives/causes of that decision? How can we be entirely sure that peer pressure and social media have not played a part? How thorough is the psychological analysis prior to treatment in each case? And more importantly, what if that is analysis is mistaken?
I have the same concerns over reading reports that nine and ten year old girls want breast implants for their sixteenth birthday present. Or that more children and young people are experiencing body shame with the attendant disorders and behaviours that often accompany that condition.
I have the same concerns over reading reports that nine and ten year old girls want breast implants for their sixteenth birthday present. Or that more children and young people are experiencing body shame with the attendant disorders and behaviours that often accompany that condition.
That she was named by such a magazine and that such magazines exist with their predilection for certain “types” of woman does [in some respects] reinforce my point about the media and its influence re "pop-feminism". How many young people are being influenced by this version of feminism, femininity, and womanhood?
I’d also point out that in most high profile cases it is male to female rather than female to male transitioning, which is a facet of all this I find very interesting.
I’d also point out that in most high profile cases it is male to female rather than female to male transitioning, which is a facet of all this I find very interesting.
I also think the greater number of transwomen compared to transmen is interesting. I have some guess as to why that could be, but they're not scientifically substantiated.
I see this as a case of men [regardless of whether they identify as women] wanting to dominate feminist issues. It is men [albeit men who identify as women] demanding their concerns and rights be recognised regardless of how other women [who have always identified as women] might feel about these issues.
Since when is having a different opinion on certain aspects of an extremely complex issue, automatically defined as "prejudice"? I am on the Left politically and have been for over fifty years, however, I do not agree with all opinions or ideologies expressed by some of those who also consider themselves part of the Left.
Am I displaying "prejudice"? Should I too experience "moral castigation" for daring to disagree?
Am I displaying "prejudice"? Should I too experience "moral castigation" for daring to disagree?
That depends on how you define "choice". Some of us know from very early ages that we are different. Some realise that later in life. I have several friends who made a conscious decision in their twenties that they were same sex attracted. I also have friends who, in their forties or fifties, made the same decision despite, in those latter examples, having had happy marriages and children. Several maintain very good relationships with their former spouses and both share time with the grand-children.
My own view of human sexuality is that we are all probably bisexual and at some point we decide, not necessarily consciously, to which sex we are attracted.
However, in this new world of gender fluidity and trans-sexuality there appears to be no such thing as same sex preferences and so perhaps the world "gay" in its more recent meaning, should be excised from our vocabularies along with male and female pronouns.
My own view of human sexuality is that we are all probably bisexual and at some point we decide, not necessarily consciously, to which sex we are attracted.
However, in this new world of gender fluidity and trans-sexuality there appears to be no such thing as same sex preferences and so perhaps the world "gay" in its more recent meaning, should be excised from our vocabularies along with male and female pronouns.
I think sex preference still has practical benefit even if it becomes more nebular in academic space, at least for now.
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