What do you think are the pros and the cons of being transgender? Do you think we're treated equally?

Quote from: bancho on October 15, 2011, 05:05:12 PM
What do you think are the pros and the cons of being transgender? Do you think we're treated equally?

There are only really two cons to me: 1) Dysphoria and the way it makes you completely hate your own body/hurt your own body/having to bind as a consequence and 2) The way intolerant society treats trans people as lesser. To me, even if dysphoria is inevitable at some point for many of us, a more tolerant society (here in Canuckland anyway) would treat it like any other necessary medical issue and supply treatment (surgery/hormones) through public health care without requiring you to get counseling. The depression a lot of us feel because of how society treats us for being trans would be solved with a more tolerant society. It all comes down to intolerance and inequality, not being trans itself, imo.

So yeah, I don't think we're treated equally in most cases.

Quote from: Berserk on October 15, 2011, 05:13:59 PM
There are only really two cons to me: 1) Dysphoria and the way it makes you completely hate your own body/hurt your own body/having to bind as a consequence and 2) The way intolerant society treats trans people as lesser. To me, even if dysphoria is inevitable at some point for many of us, a more tolerant society (here in Canuckland anyway) would treat it like any other necessary medical issue and supply treatment (surgery/hormones) through public health care without requiring you to get counseling. The depression a lot of us feel because of how society treats us for being trans would be solved with a more tolerant society. It all comes down to intolerance and inequality, not being trans itself, imo.

So yeah, I don't think we're treated equally in most cases.

This. We are not treated equal.