The Israel/Palestine conflict is a prime example.
A near perfect example, as both side have long lists of grievances, wrongs and actions that they can point to the other side as being the cause of. And in the end ever smaller group splinter off till you're facing a war of all against all on both sides. Who's right? Whose wrong? Who even cares anymore? No sitution in the post war world has received so much support on both sides only to waste it until many people just give up and do the plague on both your houses deal and cease to support either side. And, like that sad story, no one ever seems to win, and more or less innocent people on both sides wind up getting caught like shrimp in a battle between two whales.
That being said, perhaps there are separate, discrete and real differences between people in the community, and just like All Transexuals are Transgender, but not all Transgenders are Transexuals, it could be that all persons with HBS are TS, but not all TS have HBS. There might well be several ways through the woods, and not all people have the same end goal in mind when they choose those paths (or have them chosen for them) in the first place.
So, TS is a sub catagory of TG, and HBS is a subcategorization of TS, and I'm sure there is a male HBS which is different from the female HBS, and it might well turn out that there are several unique ways of being a woman with HBS so not all of them are really alike, or in the same group. Does it ever end?
Moreover, and this is my favorite, really it is, is this not all in motion? Are not people moving from one to the other? Or back? People find out a lot about themselves reading and posting on these boards, and along with finding out what you are, finding out what you are not is important too. Many times in my life, and I'm sure in yours also, you've thought you were something (or wanted to be) only to get close enough and say "That's not really me."
So perhaps we ought to open a section and call it The Crypt for those topics that a) will never die, and b) almost never ever be civil, and warn people, like the old maps did that 'This way be monsters and madness' and let those who would wander into that morass know what they are in for, and the rest of us will, having been stung in the past once or twice, avoid it.
