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Title: Get Over It!
Post by: Shana A on November 28, 2010, 08:58:10 AM
Post by: Shana A on November 28, 2010, 08:58:10 AM
Get Over It!
By JillPage Sat, Nov 27 2010 Patent Pending
http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/11/27/get-over-it.aspx (http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/11/27/get-over-it.aspx)
I made a comment to an earlier post about the science of transitioning, in response to a particularly stupid comment by a reader. To digress for a moment, I am still having a hard time figuring out why our detractors criticize the Male-to-female transitioner, but don't dare say a negative word about the Female -to-male transitioner. Smacks of hypocrisy to me.
Anyhow, I wanted to expand on the comment I made. I think the people who are opposed to ->-bleeped-<- and transsexualism, ie. the fundamentalists and transphobes, need to get one thing straight: Science can and does and will continue to change the physical gender/sex of people. One might ask, "What about the genes?" My reply: You have no idea how they may have been modified while in the womb. You have no idea how the brain has been rewired. Any number of things a mother ingested may have been to blame. Or something in the environment. Or myriad other things. But one thing is for certain: the child is not to blame.The person who grows up to become a transsexual is not to blame.
By JillPage Sat, Nov 27 2010 Patent Pending
http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/11/27/get-over-it.aspx (http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/11/27/get-over-it.aspx)
I made a comment to an earlier post about the science of transitioning, in response to a particularly stupid comment by a reader. To digress for a moment, I am still having a hard time figuring out why our detractors criticize the Male-to-female transitioner, but don't dare say a negative word about the Female -to-male transitioner. Smacks of hypocrisy to me.
Anyhow, I wanted to expand on the comment I made. I think the people who are opposed to ->-bleeped-<- and transsexualism, ie. the fundamentalists and transphobes, need to get one thing straight: Science can and does and will continue to change the physical gender/sex of people. One might ask, "What about the genes?" My reply: You have no idea how they may have been modified while in the womb. You have no idea how the brain has been rewired. Any number of things a mother ingested may have been to blame. Or something in the environment. Or myriad other things. But one thing is for certain: the child is not to blame.The person who grows up to become a transsexual is not to blame.
Title: Re: Get Over It!
Post by: shiinee on November 28, 2010, 10:10:18 AM
Post by: shiinee on November 28, 2010, 10:10:18 AM
Ahh...I don't like this article, because to me it's just another attempt to define gender by a biological condition rather than an identity. I don't think one needs certain hormones to be female/male/other any more than one needs certain chromosomes or genitals. I'm a boy right now with E in my body, and taking T wouldn't make me more or less of a boy. It would just make me look more masculine, which is not what gender is about.