Lmao. This reminds me of an episode of Southpark called Ms. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina:
Ms. Garrison: But I paid five thousand dollars to be a woman. This would mean I, I'm not really a woman. I, I'm just a... a I'm just a guy with a mutilated *****!
Doctor: Basically, yes.
Mrs. Garrison: ...Oh boy, do I feel like a jackass.
Lmao. Whoo. Alright. This person is a man because he identifies himself as a man. If I was a disembodied brain in a jar, I would still identify myself as a man. If I lost my genitals in some horrible accident, I'd still be a man mentally and genetically.
But, physically, he is technically (notice I didn't say "really") a woman because he has a uterus and all of the parts and has an XX chromosome pair. That does not MAKE him a woman, that just means he has a uterus. Being a man or woman is a mental thing. What REALLY matters is who someone says they are inside. He was apparently happy enough to not have a complete sex change, but he's still no more or no less than a man than someone who had an operation or anyone born with a *****. I forgot whoever said it, but this is all about ignoring REAL news and getting people to watch. If they said 'A pre-op tranny's pregnant!" no one would really care, because that's not interesting. Is this really the first time this has happened? I bet it's not, but I guess they didn't have anything real to talk about... like Darfur or something.
I never saw any hostility or anyone who's insecure with their sexuality
It's so easy to say "You just don't agree with me because you secretly like boys" lmao. No one has said anything at all negative about transsexuals other than they don't think you can REALLY be a man/woman if you weren't born one (which raises questions about inter-sexed individuals... answer those for me
) and that's not good or bad. That's a neutral opinion. I just re-read the thread and saw where Josh called him "it".... this was a poor choice of words and pretty (very) insensitive, but he didn't mean anything by it IMO. Republicans don't generally think about political correctness; their thoughts just spew out without any sort of filter in between
For the record, even if you don't think someone who's bio. a woman but mentally a man (or visca versa), I'd really hope you'd put your opinions aside and call them what they wished to be called, for the sake of not being a jacka ss. I feel really sympathetic to transsexuals (well, in general. I don't actually know any..... that I know of
) I can't begin to imagine how much harder their life is compared to someone who's "just" gay/bi, much less a straight person. And I bet it's REALLY hard for a Native American Wiccan transsexual with a peg leg! I don't think you can be more of a minority than that!
EDIT: Why can we say Vagina but not P enis? Neither should be censored... human anatomy isn't vulgar (and people who mean to be vulgar don't say "p enis" anyway!)