Letters to the Editor
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I'll say it:
Glad to see that bigoted essentialists still have a place to voice their sophisticated judging.
Transphobia, it's not just for conservative repothugs anymore.
Get your hate on.
And, yes, this shit about nature is a bunch of bullshit fallacy bile. The resemblance to the argument against gays isn't an accident. Whenever you argue from nature to talk about how you think other people should live like you live or believe or what you think is 'natural', you are being a control freak and an idiot.
We're people, not trees. Not robots.
Also, so what if it's a choice? What if being gay was a choice? Would it suddenly become disgusting and worthy of disrespect?
And, for those of you claiming that he's not transgender and are apparently pissed at the suggestion, get over yourselves. I can guess how you treat gender queer people. And, not everyone can afford the surgery or live in a place where they can get it. AND, one can still have the same feelings of being in the wrong sex AND think that maybe surgery is not the way to go, to a certain degree.
But you know, it's easier to hate. People hate gays, gays hate trans, trans hate gender queer? Really? After all this time, that's as far as we've come?
I'm angry not just cause it's stupid, but because, having lived in northern California for some time, I have many gender queer friends.
Belittling and presumptuous.
Fake liberals. One and all.
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@woodside
Becaue she's not "trans". All she had were cosmetic changes to make her look like a man. She didn't reject being a woman. There is probably a name for what she is, but she is not a "man". There are a lot of women out there who have lost their breasts and some who even have facial hair. But men do not have a functioning uterus.
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@Brightstar and Laurel
BS, when you say that men should get interested in themselves, are you discussing the development of axolotl tanks (you do read Herbert as well as Rand, I should think), or something else?
Laurel, you strike me as so level-headed that this blind spot startles me. I'm happy with the chromosomal hand I was dealt at conception. I can't imagine the level of misery that it takes a transgendered person to undergo the surgical and hormonal procedures that make them the people they are convinced they were meant to be. I don't see this as a cold-blooded ploy to get free diapers and a home add-on: I see this as surrogacy at considerable physical and psychological risk. Do I get it? Probably not. But I'm flabbergasted rather than appalled.
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Okay, Folks might come down hard one me
But I find this story profoundly disturbing. I know people have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies (well up to a point) but I have to be honest, also really upset me. Not because I'm against transgendered folks. My baby sitter growing up was transgendered, and she was awesome. Granted, I thought she was a woman until I got old enough to figure it out, but after I got over my adolescent shock, I still loved her and I cried at her funeral. This is not to throw out the, some of my best friends are gay trope, but I guess I am. But here's my problem:
I thought people became get a sex change because they suffered from body dismorphia, that its an actualy disease, and they want their physical self to match their inner self. Therefore, she became a he.
Hes don't have babies. Hes can't get pregnant. How much dismorphic can he be if he can spend 9 months going through such an female process! To me it seems he is getting all of the perks of looking like a male (and whatever Brightstar might say, there are perks to being a male) , the perks of marrying his partner because he is legally a male, with one of the greatest upsides to being a woman; having a baby. Maybe I'm just a bitch, but even though it didn't disgust me, it kind of pisses me off with the unfairness of it all.
Okay, whatever. To each his own, and I wish him and his happy little family all of the happiness they can have.
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@ Laurel962
Did you even read the original article that this couple wrote before you got up on your high horse? I suggest that you do that. They speak about what a difficult decision this was to make for them and that they only arrived at it once the wife was unable to conceive and even then it tore him up to do it but a family meant so much more. And as for the hormones, he stopped taking them. Adopt! Really! I am sure transgendered couples are getting handed babies left and right. Thanks for the completely uninformed opinion.
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Artificial sperm 'on the horizon'
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/artificial-sperm-on-the-horizon/2008/04/07/1207420287249.html
You will soon no longer need men for anything. Let the extermination begin.
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As a transguy myself, I have to say that while I don't judge what Beatie is doing, I also don't understand it. I see being a parent as completely compatible with my male identity, but getting pregnant just doesn't jive. Maybe Beatie is just much more comfortable with himself than I am. Still, as the author of the article said, the couple in question seem like parents a lot of people would like to have. I respect Beatie's decision, even if it makes me cringe (in part because of the unwanted scrutiny that it places on so-called 'normal' trans folk).
What I find most disturbing is that it becomes an excuse for all the wackos to come out of the woodworks... people talking about sex and gender as though they had any idea what they were talking about. People who don't understand that "man" and "woman" are sociological, not biological, indicators, and that "male" and "female" are biological and not sociological indicators. People who don't understand that even a man who wants to get pregnant is still a perfectly normal and decent human being, not a stick puppet for your twisted amusement.
This man is a human being, by all accounts an articulate, intelligent, and productive member of society, a husband, and a father. Why can't people just treat him with the respect and dignity that he, as a human being, deserves?