I Honestly Don't Get Transgender

I Honestly Don't Get Transgender Mar 25, 2017 22:32:48 GMT

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Post by NishmatHaChalil on Mar 25, 2017 22:32:48 GMT

Mar 25, 2017 21:41:50 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

Wow you're comparing a small surgical procedures to gender reassignment which in addition carries the idea that you are pretending to be something you aren't?

There is no such idea in the process. No pretending either. It just does not conform to your own irrational beliefs, which are in themselves just a reflection of what you expect such things to be, when science uses other definitions.
And tubal ligation is technically major surgery. So is SRS, by the way, and neither is considered significant in its adverse effects, much less in its life risk.

And Jenner being named "woman of the year" is exactly the point. Promoting this as though there is absolutely nothing to question about it, is ridiculous.

It should be promoted because there is nothing wrong about it and the world has already moved on. Also, if something being open to be "questioned" would make its promotion ridiculous, then every promotion would be ridiculous, because there is always going to be a misguided individual somewhere in the world with ungrounded criticism based on what he thinks is natural (not a scientific definition in the sense employed).

And, for the record, natural (as in non-artificial) things, per se, are not all that good. Nature is much more inhospitable than welcoming. Only through 1.5 Ma of a lot of artificial intervention did our weird genus reach its current life-span and quality of life.