Transgender Reality Bender
Written by Selwyn Duke   
Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:30

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/selwyn-duke/4745-transgender-reality-bender

Boys will be boys ...  or, at least, that's how it used to be. Now a few boys will be — or would be — girls, and there are plenty of adults willing to play along. And some of these adults occupy the Maine Human Rights Commission, which just ruled that a Pine Tree State middle school engaged in discrimination when it refused to allow a boy who wants to live as a female to use the girls' bathroom.

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Note that the school had already bent over backwards for the student. As Steeves points out, "the district accommodated the child by training the staff, educating the students, giving the transgender student [his] own bathroom, giving [him his] own locker room and meeting with [his] parents almost daily." How much it cost the taxpayers to jump through these hoops for this one student was not disclosed.

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    Misdiagnosis
The most common solution to Gender Identity Disorder is to live as the perceived gender, or even to begin body modification to appear as the perceived gender.
However, there is an obvious flaw in this logic: If the body itself is in working order, and the subject does not suffer from hermaphroditic teratology- then the issue is purely psychological.
It's a software issue, not a hardware issue.

Complying with the desires of those suffering from GID is akin to setting places at the dinner table for the voices in the head of a schizophrenic.

That was the first comment on that article. Being a respectable debater, I'll actually agree he has some valid points. Although I would say he is looking at it from the wrong perspective. Our "software" is fine, it's our "hardware" that doesn't match up.

QuoteSemenya was the South African runner whose sex became a topic of discussion due to her masculine physique and mannerisms and the fact that she was leaving her female competition in the dust. Before medical tests revealed — as I knew they would — that she had internal testes, the attitude toward her case was very interesting, indeed. Despite the fact that she looked and acted like an 18-year-old boy, many people were outraged that she was subject to scrutiny. They simply felt it was insensitive to question her "gender identity" and subject her to the indignity of medical tests. Ah, such sensitive folks. Or are they?

This guy has seriously lost it here.

How did he know Semenya has internal testies? The answer is, he didn't.

He then goes on to suggest that Semenya knew all along and the objections to her went against her wish to be female.

No, Semenya didn't know, She had been raised as a girl and always believed herself to be so. The objections to her treatment were that personal details were publicised.

The objections to her participating were just a bunch of poor loosers.

I also noticed the first comment. That is, sadly, also wrong, though more forgivable since there is no attempt at dishonesty

But the conclusion that it's a software issue is mixing termonologies. People aren't computers. My psychology is as much part of me as my foot, or my nose.

Yeah the software-hardware analogy reminds me of how a gay guy explained his position as: "same plumbing, just different wiring" which I guess for us would be "same wiring, just different plumbing". I guess people just find hardware-store terms easier to understand .

Quote from: Meepit on October 01, 2010, 11:39:29 AM
Yeah the software-hardware analogy reminds me of how a gay guy explained his position as: "same plumbing, just different wiring" which I guess for us would be "same wiring, just different plumbing". I guess people just find hardware-store terms easier to understand .

As an analogy, it's fine.

As a proof it's flawed.