This is getting really confusing. I was kind of embarrassed to admit that I wasn’t real clear on what the term “transgender” actually referred to. Over the years, I have seen the word applied to so many different types of people and situations that I finally decided to look it up after reading this story.
According to Wikipedia:
Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise definition for transgender remains in flux, but includes: • "Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these." • "People who were assigned a sex, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves." • "Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the sex (and assumed gender) one was assigned at birth."
So, it's basically whatever you want it to be? Now I understand why I didn't understand it.
As for the lady in the story, if you didn't want to be identified as the mother, then YOU SHOULDN"T GIVE BIRTH! If you want to be viewed as a man, it means you give up the right to give birth.
This idea that you can just call yourself one sex while keeping the reproductive organs of the other is just ridiculous. It already had a name: cross-dresser. End of story.
This is getting really confusing. I was kind of embarrassed to admit that I wasn’t real clear on what the term “transgender” actually referred to. Over the years, I have seen the word applied to so many different types of people and situations that I finally decided to look it up after reading this story.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia:
Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise definition for transgender remains in flux, but includes:
• "Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these."
• "People who were assigned a sex, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves."
• "Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the sex (and assumed gender) one was assigned at birth."
So, it's basically whatever you want it to be? Now I understand why I didn't understand it.
As for the lady in the story, if you didn't want to be identified as the mother, then YOU SHOULDN"T GIVE BIRTH! If you want to be viewed as a man, it means you give up the right to give birth.
This idea that you can just call yourself one sex while keeping the reproductive organs of the other is just ridiculous. It already had a name: cross-dresser. End of story.
pansexual? - prefers sex with pans
ReplyDeleteZamfir is a pansexual
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