You've got 99% of the world living in this happy little bubble where all women have vaginas and all men have penises, and then there's the transsexual bubble, with a suicide rate of nearly 50% and people born with parts that need to be changed.
It's like being albino or something but with life-ruining side effects.

If you say so.   

Quote from: bangarang on June 26, 2013, 01:02:33 PM

It's like being albino or something but with life-ruining side effects.

Only if you let it! 

The number is tough to pin down, I usually hear a 41% attempted suicide rate. Are you OK? Hugs, Devlyn

I understand you may have some self acceptance issues...

You might find being a human is strange in that we are all
Unique. 

If you have a burning desire to mold and fit in...than us going
Stealth isn't wierd.. 

But thank you for calling me weird..

I don't even know what to say to this really... I don't think it's that weird really... sucky some of us came with the wrong plumbing but not really weird, and it can be fixed so... I mean weird is if a human woman gave birth to a purple dinosaur

Yes, I am weird, especially when it come to saying, acting, dressing and doing things that most people wouldn't dare do most of the time. That's just my personality though, not because I'm trans. Being trans is probably one of the more normalcies that I exhibit.

It is strange as a concept, though. "Hi, kid! Welcome to life! You have a pretty good starting hand - no prebirth abortion, no debilitating illnesses... Oh! Except that you'll spend all your life trying to change your genitals via a process that wasn't even possible up until a few years ago. So, that'll be fun."

Quote from: Jerred1985 on June 26, 2013, 02:33:09 PM
I don't even know what to say to this really... I don't think it's that weird really... sucky some of us came with the wrong plumbing but not really weird, and it can be fixed so... I mean weird is if a human woman gave birth to a purple dinosaur

Very much this.

Quote from: Heather on June 26, 2013, 01:19:15 PM
Only if you let it! 

And this.

...I don't think it is weird at all it is only society telling you it's weird. You'll feel better once you embrace it.

Quote from: Jerred1985 on June 26, 2013, 02:33:09 PMI mean weird is if a human woman gave birth to a purple dinosaur

That would be weird.
Biology is never perfect. There are frequently mistakes and anomalies that happen.
Technically, it's also not weird that some people are albino.

Quote from: Jerred1985 on June 26, 2013, 02:33:09 PM
I don't even know what to say to this really... I don't think it's that weird really... sucky some of us came with the wrong plumbing but not really weird, and it can be fixed so... I mean weird is if a human woman gave birth to a purple dinosaur

Huh. Guess that explains Barney the Dinosaur!

...

Anyway!

My personal thought with if being trans is weird or strange or not, is that I don't think it is. It's just who we are.

It does cause me a lot of anxiety and stress day to day though, about how other people feel about it, especialy my wife, family, and society in general, since I live in a very conservative state in the United States (Kansas).

We are like X men. I love my new super snatch

Quote from: Tristan on June 26, 2013, 04:05:20 PM
We are like X men. I love my new super snatch

Indeed! In a way, we are "ex-men."

Yes, I am weird. I don't follow the herd, and I don't march to a different drummer...my "drummer" uses a kazoo.

Embrace the weird!

And changing gender is life-affirming...yes, it may "ruin" the old life, but since that was built on a false premise, now is a chance to do it right.

Quote from: Beth Andrea on June 26, 2013, 04:26:05 PM
Indeed! In a way, we are "ex-men."

Yes, I am weird. I don't follow the herd, and I don't march to a different drummer...my "drummer" uses a kazoo.

Embrace the weird!

And changing gender is life-affirming...yes, it may "ruin" the old life, but since that was built on a false premise, now is a chance to do it right.

Or, in some cases, ex-Women, but that doesn't sound as good.
The point has been made.
Now i'll stop typing while i still have dignity.

Tristan I LOLed and almost spit out my candy!!!

What if I don't want to be an x men ..I want to be the
6million dollar bionic woman with a bionic vag


Don't worry....we have the technology to rebuild her!!!

One actually needs to think about being trans as kinda weird?   

I don't think she meant "weird" in a bad way. I think all she meant was that it is a strange concept to think about, not that being trans is weird, strange, etc. 

I do agree that it is an odd concept to think about, but we are the way we are and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks~


Changed pronouns: Make sure you use the correct pronouns or I will fall on you like a ton of bricks. I really don't like that.

Another thing that's weird is being born with blond hair and blue eyes. After all, the vast majority of the human species has black hair and brown eyes, so surely black hair & brown eyes are normal and people who don't have those characteristics are weird? Well, aren't we?

It's actually quite difficult to be born with blond hair & blue eyes: the genes for dark hair & eyes are dominant so you need to inherit two sets of the appropriate genes, one from each parent, in order to be born with blond hair & blue eyes. This is what's commonly known as 'recessive traits' or 'recessive genes'.

My father had black hair & brown eyes. My mother had brown hair & blue eyes. So for me to be born with blond hair & blue eyes, I had to inherit those genes from two parents who didn't show any outward signs of having them. So am I weird? Am I a mutant? Am I an X-Man (god, I hope so - I could do with some superpowers!).

Or are our less-common characteristics - such as blond hair, or being one of identical twins, or being transsexual - merely interesting examples of the incredible variety of the human species?

Aren't humans amazing? 

Weird is the perfect word if you rely on the archaic definition.

"Of or relating to fate or the Fates."

In mythology the Fates, Norns or Weird Sisters determine what happens to you.

Many things in our life are beyond our control.  Even if you correct things eventually, it will be difficult, expensive and painful.  That's your fate (weird).

I think that if you think about it just a bit more, it really isn't weird at all. It's true that western culture and society is usually not very tolerant of gender variance. Gender and sex are very complex concepts, and marginalizing trans* identities as 'weird' requires one to make a certain set of assumptions that don't necessarily hold true.

The deterministic view that sex/gender are caused by genitalia is considered the norm in mainstream US culture, but really, even 'biological' sex is determined by many more factors than genital anatomy alone (such as secondary sexual anatomy, hormonal composition, genetics). And this flexibility in sex doesn't even account for all of the innate and learned behaviors that combine to form someone's gender identity. So sex and gender can't really be considered mutually exclusive categories, but lie along a spectrum of behaviors and traits (Julia Serano basically makes this argument in her book Whipping Girl).

So really, being trans* is weird only in the sense that it contradicts simplistic assumptions that are often made in our culture.