Quote from: chrysalis on November 26, 2008, 01:42:49 AM
Lets just leave CD as a behavior and as a description only of people who exhibit that behavior (though not the reason). People do it for all different reasons, and so defining one group by it is inherently myopic.
In the same way I would then suggest that we define TS as anyone who wants to be another gender regardless of the reason (I'd prefer to redefine TG, but that is, as I understand it, already the umbrella term, so I'm working within the established infrastructure.) TS just has too much absolutism in it for me.
Now here I add that we can reach a better expression of these qualities using a spectrum as opposed to a binary system. So someone could be a 7/10 CD, or a 4/10 TS.
The tricky part is co-morbidity. Can someone be a 10/10 for both?
Being a very mathmatics orientated individual, I have found many ways to transfer my identity into numbers and labels.
But as you said it would just be myopic.
Either way I am still sitting stuck with a inheiritenly insane medical condition that is forcing me to reconcile my inner being while destroying my outside world, hurting those that love me most, all so I can be happy with my body and mind or else absolutley nothing would happen to me physically, but emotionally I would feel like the 40 possible years I might have left on this what will be even more depressing after transition planet would be slipping away and leaving me gaping for any grasp on where my life went.
The most pressing issue on any human beings minds, is its own well being, because it is the only issue that never goes away.
