@Cirrus Light
I personally don’t think trans people are mentally ill. To be quite fair, it’s hard to pin down what a trans person really is – is it, for example, a man who just says to other people he identifies as a girl, or is it a man who just likes girly stuff? But if the latter is true, then all crossdressers can be considered trans people.
I’m a little over 20, and I don’t think I even know what it really means to be a man, yet. I haven’t been a father, just for one. But kids in their early teens are deciding they may be trans or homosexual or whatnot when they barely even know what or who they are, because they see these things on the internet and don’t understand.
I’m one to believe sexual orientation isn’t a stone-set thing regarding the way people grow up – a boy can be batshit-straight when he is still a kid, but reveal himself to be gay when he grows up. But i still don’t believe it’s a choice, people are either born with such mental conditions or are conditioned themselves into their sexual orientation by traumas or memories.
B) Gender is nothing but a social construct
Actually, pro-trans people wouldn’t be so stupid as to deny that people have penises or vaginas. In fact, they mostly believe gender is segregated into two constructs:
-the biological one
-the social or psychological one
As theorized by Simone De Beauvoir and other second-wave feminists.
having them go against their history and the DNA encoded in every cell of their body is about as beneficial as telling a schizophrenic person their delusions are real
The difference here is that a schizophrenic person can be dangerous to society, whereas a trans person is just a person with a mostly harmless, unorthodox way of seeing themselves.
But hey, it’s psychology, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised there’s some serious weight to put feels before reals.
In this case, feels are, in a way, just as much reals as the biological reals, and they end up dropping the individual into a psychological conflict. I support a way to give trans people easier access to gender reassignment surgery.