"Why won't any of you lesbians date me? God, you're so transphobic!"

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Yes it is a bad meme, lol in some communities there are official meme raters, I am not qualified to rate a transexual meme but this is lazy, just a pic of a guy, would be better if it had the wording right in the pic, and if it was a pop culture referene instead of a random guy, like who is a famous transexual, maybe Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie? Not sure.

Besides the meme though, why is it some want to change their sex, do you deny it is a mental illness, like Quixote and his delusions, do we really have to cater to it instead of trying to cure it?

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

Technically, altering the body is a "solution". Kind of like how some "solutions" for horrible diseases only increase the person's lifespan by a couple of years. Therapy is another solution, but most pre-operation transgender people are too reluctant to try it because not many people have gone down that route. I'm sure there are a pile of scientists trying to find more "solutions" to gender dysphoria, but it's a mental illness, and those are impossible to cure. This is because it can come back after a while after the person has seemingly recovered from it.

We do already take some special procedures in public for existing mental illnesses like schizophrenia, so I think using preferred pronouns are quite mild compared to needing to convince someone that Dr. Zomboss isn't going to attack Earth the next month.