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[–]KCStuffedAnimal 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RE your comment about conflicting logic: I sense that the Trans community is traumatized, confused and desperate. I can only imagine how stressful transgender identity must be; realizing that I was a Gay man wasn't traumatic at all. What ended up being a problem was other people's reaction to my sexuality. My guess is that Transfolk have to deal with internal trauma plus hostile responses from society; I don't envy them one bit. Elsewhere there's discussion of how wrongheaded their current agenda is, and I concur with that; but I also feel empathy. Transfolk are where LesBiGay people were decades ago: Filled with shame, pathologized, and at the mercy of a medical establishment that really couldn't have cared less about us. I suspect that some of them ARE Gay, not Trans, and can't cope with that fact; it's easier for them to try to drug and/or cut away a painful reality. And there are so many "born in the wrong body" enablers! It's a tragic situation. At this point, there's not much we can do to help Transfolk except try to be voices of reason, refuse to buy into sex and gender erasure and continue to emphasize that we are NOT anti-Trans!