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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Most hijras aren't born that way these days, intersex is rare as your stats show. It's just a niche case.

When an otherwise healthy teen girl wants to be a boy or vice versa, it just ain't happening. We can frankenstein some shit together but it sometimes looks really, really bad. It's never going to be OEM. The reconstructed sex organs won't work right. It can't possibly feel right.

Gender dysphoria needs to go back on the psychiatric problems pile. Mutilating your body into a less functional form is nuts.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I think 1.7% of the world's population would be 130 million.

Regions with significant populations of Hijras:

India 490,000 (2014)

Pakistan 10,418 (2017)

I agree that teenagers should not be permitted to have gender reassignment surgery. I know two people going through the process of becoming male, but had to wait until they were 18 to do so. They know the process will shorten their lives by 10 years, that it's quite painful, that the hormone treatments create problems, and there are many other problems. Still, they have the right to do it, and it's none of my business, and this is not harming anyone else. What I am seeing with these two is that they feel much better about themselves and are more confident and productive. I wish them well.

Yes, to us this is absolutely 'nuts'. I wouldn't want anyone to do this. But I also wouldn't want to anyone dictate what these people should think or feel or be.

I also just now returned from reading comments on Reddit about this, and - the discussion on Saidit seems rather civilized by contrast to their pubescent rants on Reddit. For example, many of them are convinced that Amelia is a pedophile.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

For example, many of them are convinced that Amelia is a pedophile.

Why are they talking about Amelia May on reddit, or did you mean Aimee?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I meant - Aimee

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

She surrounds herself with pedos, hard to imagine she's not complicit in some regard if not an active participant.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Seems her partner has pedo interests - which I think I learned from you, regarding something he published. Guilt by association? Perhaps, but I don't know enough, and don't want to. So it might be easier to agree, but I just don't see evidence of her as a pedo. She was and is supportive of pedos, which deserves mention.

Fun fact - my responses upset one person so much that he/she created an account 2 hours ago in order to post 5 abusive comments, such as, "go get hit by a bus pedo apologist"

The hatred for trans people is surprising to me.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The hatred for trans people is surprising to me

I'd say a very small % of people who do not like transgenders actually hate anyone. There's lots of ways to not like the movement without hate. Such as having any criticism called transphobic, which I think gives the impression there's far more hate than there is.

Fun fact - my responses upset one person so much that he/she created an account 2 hours ago in order to post 5 abusive comments, such as, "go get hit by a bus pedo apologist

You sure that wasn't the iron left? They like to call me a pedo apologist too, which frankly, given my views on the matter is ridiculous.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Could be. Another user told me I like to fuck children; not very polite.