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Originally Posted by Oberbrunner
Hello Checkmaker,
I feel as though your points are not well thought out and somewhat offensive.
Who are you to judge somebody and tell them what gender they are? Do you know how this person feels? Do you know what this person is thinking? No. You do not.
i know my friend a lot better than you and he is well adjusted and from what he tells me his penis has healed more than he thought it could and he's thankful for my support. if he would have gone ahead with a sex change i would still be his friend just as im still friends with my paranoid schizophrenic friend. how much do you know about the human mind?? how are you so concrete in your opinions when there is no scientific evidence to support your claim that a man can be born into a womans body or vice versa??
so do you think my friend is really a woman or was he a confused person who had a traumatic penis injury and was confused about what that meant for his future??
you dont know everything buddy.
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This is the typical conservative argument "What if they think they are a cat?" "What if they think they are younger?" Again, you don't know what this person if feeling, and you are just quoting Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh
i dont watch bill oreilly or rush limbaugh and "feeling" a certain way does not mean they are not mentally ill. and again it doesnt answer the question. are those people not mentally ill?? are all transgendered people born that way or are some mentally ill? to say that 0% of transgendered are not mentally deranged for thinking so its absolutely wrong even if you disagree with me and think its less than 100% to say its zero is just fallacious. people's delusions range from all sorts buddy.
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This is problematic and offensive. You do not use incorrect gender pronouns and the fact you know you are using the incorrect pronouns is really offensive. And Im not sure why you are talking about this person's sexuality... Sexuality is different than gender.
actually i was using the correct pronoun and you are collaborating with his mental illness and reinforcing the mental illness of others rather than allow them the chance to recognize reality and get help.
when my schizo friend talks about delusions of grandeur saying he is going to help lil wayne get elected as the president of the usa should i go along with that?? i try to use the socratic method to help him recognize reality. how many interactions have you ever actually had with a mentally ill person??
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Again, using examples of rare almost impossible scenarios, yet you know nothing about the people. You do not know what this person is feeling emotional. I guess next you are going to talk about how it's illegal for being a homosexual in a middle eastern country?
so feelings trump science?? if you feel like the opposite sex or gender does that make it so? no.
im not trying to form a case against LGBT rights and identities. like you said sexuality and gender are two different things. i have no problem with anyone elses sexuality and i have compassion for the mentally ill.
[how come you dissected my post but left out the part about 70-80% of children who have transgendered feelings will eventually grow out of them?? yet we are mutilating these confused children and sick children instead of treating them. i think thats horrific. what are you thoughts about that? what about the fact that a transgendered person is more likely to commit suicide AFTER having reassignment surgery??