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T in LGBT is still Chastised - Nicole Maines News Story
12 years ago
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Things that for whatever reason, I feel need to be said in an addendum to my profile in a blog-type fashion.
http://news.yahoo.com/transgender-s.....153230913.html
I was about to just pass off that article about a transgendered student and her family going to court over what bathrooms she was and wasn't allowed to use do to gender/sex restrictions in her highschool, but I noticed it was going to the highest State Court in Maine, and remembered all the controversy over whether or not gender-specific bathrooms are even necessary in my University.
I read the story, and the author was respectable and unbiased, but it wasn't until I got to the comments that I realized just how bigoted people in the United States still are about Transgender issues. Most people were all like...
"Oh mah gerd, if yoo haz duh peenis, yoo go 2 dah BOYZ bafroom, naht duh GIRLZ bafroom, dat's so GROHSSE! Da poor CHILDREN wil bee trahmutaised!"
Others people managed to be more bigoted, calling Nicole (the transgender student) a freak of nature, drag queen, saying she should be castrated or just "cut it off," and most incorrectly referred to her as a "he" because they do not see a difference between sex and gender, to them, it's all the same. Many parents were claiming that "my daughter doesn't need to see that."
Well, I don't know WHAT those parents are teaching their children, but when has it EVER been considered good taste or acceptable to put your genitals on display in the bathroom? From what I know, almost all "Women's Restrooms have stalls, so any genital display would have to be deliberate, whereas in the Men's Restrooms, urinals just let everything hang out for all to admire.
In past civilizations, communal bathrooms were not sex/gender specific, and I think communal bathrooms were less common as well. Separating men/women into different bathrooms is purely a cultural phenomenon, and guess what, your precious little princess, unless she's asexual or a lesbian, will see a penis someday. Get over it... and guess what? She's probably not going to see it in the bathroom, but in the backseat of a car.
I was about to just pass off that article about a transgendered student and her family going to court over what bathrooms she was and wasn't allowed to use do to gender/sex restrictions in her highschool, but I noticed it was going to the highest State Court in Maine, and remembered all the controversy over whether or not gender-specific bathrooms are even necessary in my University.
I read the story, and the author was respectable and unbiased, but it wasn't until I got to the comments that I realized just how bigoted people in the United States still are about Transgender issues. Most people were all like...
"Oh mah gerd, if yoo haz duh peenis, yoo go 2 dah BOYZ bafroom, naht duh GIRLZ bafroom, dat's so GROHSSE! Da poor CHILDREN wil bee trahmutaised!"
Others people managed to be more bigoted, calling Nicole (the transgender student) a freak of nature, drag queen, saying she should be castrated or just "cut it off," and most incorrectly referred to her as a "he" because they do not see a difference between sex and gender, to them, it's all the same. Many parents were claiming that "my daughter doesn't need to see that."
Well, I don't know WHAT those parents are teaching their children, but when has it EVER been considered good taste or acceptable to put your genitals on display in the bathroom? From what I know, almost all "Women's Restrooms have stalls, so any genital display would have to be deliberate, whereas in the Men's Restrooms, urinals just let everything hang out for all to admire.
In past civilizations, communal bathrooms were not sex/gender specific, and I think communal bathrooms were less common as well. Separating men/women into different bathrooms is purely a cultural phenomenon, and guess what, your precious little princess, unless she's asexual or a lesbian, will see a penis someday. Get over it... and guess what? She's probably not going to see it in the bathroom, but in the backseat of a car.
It's sad to know there are so many ignorant people in this world still, with Americans being the loudest. It would be nice if more people would educate themselves about things, instead of letting their ignorance show.
This will sound uneducated, but if society evolved to the point where gender was not just "man and woman" and gender had no real meaning, people could express themselves however they wanted to, I think that the need for the transgender label would also disappear.
Think about it, if there was no gender, and while we recognize that male and female bodies are different, but we don't place people in boxes because of their genitals, we would have no real need for transgender, as we would have no gender to begin with. If someone wanted to be tough as nails, shoot a gun, be athletic, and wear pants, and then the next day, wear a flowing ball gown with make-up and go to a Broadway production, that would be just fine.
This is more or less how I feel as well. And this is more or less the reason why I probably won't transition ever. While some people might say I'm not 'truly transgender,' and even though I still feel like my body and I would be in more agreement than not if I had female genitals, I don't have the 'pull' to become the opposite sex. Honestly, I feel my 'gender' is in between and I fluctuate back and forth each day.
But were I to tell the average Joe this, they wouldn't understand because 'gender is sex' and my genitals are male.
Personally, I feel like it would be perfect for me if I still 'played' a male but had the bottom surgery (i.e. no HRT). But like that's ever gonna happen lol...I'd also be nervous about losing the ability to orgasm as well. I've read that it takes up to a year after the surgery to even begin experiencing anything and there's no guarantee either.
maybe sometime in our lifetime the odds will become better and maybe it'd be more accepted to just be in between genders. oh, how I long for that day :)