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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Weird that you're so able to nonchalantly downplay or completely ignore that the same excuse has been ranging on for centuries about homosexuality being "unnatural" and a "defect" but can't extend the same favour to transgendered people.
People with penises are men and suppose to like women. That's nature, that's "science," anything deviating from it has been classified as a "defect" by the same small-minded bigoted people. We still to this day have people trying to cure and fix "homosexuality" the same way you're hoping we can cure transgenders.
Maybe step back and see that you're not any better than a homophobe when you start hoping that transgendered people end up cured.
With that said, I think the story is ridiculous.
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Let's no conflate the two issues. Further, I am going a lot further than most by saying that this is a real problem. A lot of people think that there's no such thing as gender identity issues. I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that like homosexuality its a bioligical problem. The difference is I'd never advocate for "curing" homosexuals because a sexual preference is no big deal, and our society is becoming a lot more accepting.
Gender identity is the same thing but it causes enormous hardship on the person because they don't associate with the gender they are at birth. Being born a man and feeling like a woman because of a genetic defect or birth defect that science can narrow down is a hardship that no one would want on their child. I actually find it bizarre anyone would take the other position.
Unless of course you are going to take the stance that gender and sex are societal constructs that can be fluid. In which case I can't even be bothered to debate that, in the same way I don't take anti vaxxer seriously.