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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
First I would argue that believing you are a woman when quite clearly you are a man is in no way a valid thought process, it is in essence a delusion, wishing you were a woman when you know full well you are a man is a wholly different issue.
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A person who has typical 'female' thought processes is having valid thoughts, even if their body is male. Unless you are claiming that female thought processes themselves are invalid, then that's another story. The issues caused by that mind being in that body, are a totally different thing, and not what I was referring to at all.
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People suffering from body dysmorphia are not sent into therapy to fix them, they are given medications that aliviate their thought process, if we could get away from the absurd allusion to homosexuality and find a pill that made someone who felt their body was wrong not feel that way and be happy as a man or woman we would be doing a hell of alot better than giving them a 1 in 4 chance of being happy after a long painfull operation and a life long need to take massive doses of hormones.
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So we shouldn't fix them to conform, we should just alleviate their thought processes to they are more like the rest of us? Isn't that the exact same thing?
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Of course this offends the LGBT community in the same way that there is huge outcry in the deaf community that we might be able to cure deafness. God forbid we can make people happy.
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I agree, the LGBT community is a lot like the deaf community in that way. Doesn't mean we get to decide that who they are as people is invalid though so we can 'alleviate their thought processes' to be like us. There are many cultures where transgendered people are an important part of the community, such as the Two-Spirit denotation in native communities.