Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thinking
Donna Rose
http://donnaroseblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/thinking.htmlI've been thinking lately. That can be good, and bad.
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I've watched the "debate" between some who identify as "transsexual" and others that they define as transgender and find it to be both unfortunate and embarrassing. My own personal stance on the topic hasn't changed - nobody is any more worthy, better, healthy, moral, valid or entitled than anyone else. To turn the discussion into a wedge issue, or a platform for personal validation at the expense of others that they identify as "different" exposes just how deep that various phobias that plague many of us run. I, personally, accept that any number of labels may apply to me and I have no problem with accepting transgender and transsexual among them. To believe otherwise is to accept that either or both are pejorative or insulting and I do not.
