Transgender people are dangerous now, are they?
According to the Pope we are.
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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/02/21/pope-transgender-people-are-like-nuclear-weapons/
Isn't this exactly the reason why transgenders want their own toilets though ?
Maybe the OP doesn't understand that it is medically possible to be different, he is possibly referring to those who don't have a genetic disorder.
To clarify a bit - *some* people (notably nonbinary people - trans or otherwise) need access to gender neutral toilets for safety reasons, but not all of us. I've never had hassle using gendered loos, but respect the needs of those who prefer not to have to choose a binary option which doesn't align with either their core identity or how they present to others.
I'll reply now. Perhaps I've misunderstood the actual definition of genderism so was wide of the mark in my post. The point I was trying (unsuccessfully) to get at is that recently there has been a lot of talk about people not sure of their gender and this increased discussion has only served to make some people, who may not have thought anything about it otherwise, start doubting their gender.
Not at all - and I speak as someone who came out in 2001 and has since rebuilt my life and just got on with it. I've full legal recognition, so am considered female by the state (I now have a female birth certificate, passport etc.).
If you met me you'd probably not even notice me as I don't fit the stereotypes most people who aren't familiar with trans people have.
FWIW we don't generally "doubt" our gender - rather over time we come to accept what was always there. My mind was always binary female, but for years I couldn't accept that and tried to act "male" the way I was taught to by the society I saw around me (there really wasn't much alternative in the 1970s/80s). That hurt so much that I buried everything in layer upon layer of denial and distraction just so I could function, until it finally came crashing down and I accepted the inevitable (it was that or suicide. Seriously).
The reason more and more people are coming out now is because it is far safer to do so now than it used to be. Back in the day, once folks transitioned
they hid for their own safety (witness what the News of the World did to Caroline Cossey in 1982). Nowadays, that's not as essential, and we have role models and ambassadors in the public eye (e.g Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Paris Lees, Lana Wachowski etc.). On top of that, we're no longer isolated (there's a huge community of trans people on Twitter alone) and that helps too.
That all helps enormously, and for those of us who've been around for a while we've been saying for ages that more and more people would come out each year until the size of the true trans population (
estimated by Prof Lynn Conway at something like 1 in 500 people) became apparent.
To put that in perspective, that means there should be well over 100,000 trans people in the UK alone. A mere 4000 or so of us were in Brighton for Trans Pride last month.
I'm out in my personal and professional lives so am happy to answer specific questions as long as they are reasonable.
Has anyone ever bragged about gender reassignment surgery? I mean, actually *bragged*?
It's a pretty major change in someone's life, so I don't really see why anyone should tell someone to shut up about it. Just don't read it if it bothers you.
I suspect that if anyone actually
tried the results would probably be well over the
Too
Much
Information threshold for most people (it can involve a lot of blood, pain and morphine, though also: teddy bears and duty free elephants...so there's that).
But suffice it to say that it was an experience you only want to go through once, and is both amazing and terrifying at the same time. It was brilliant, funny and horrible all at once.
