willbailes said:
As a part of the community, I'd like to say my disgust for transgenders is that they came to a complete different conclusion that we LGB did. We accepted ourselves, took with pride who we were born as, I was born a gay man. alright. But Transsexuals didn't accept themselves, I view them as running away, of wanting to be someone (something) else. That's not the loving accepting message we strive for.
On a side point I'm against all changing of the body that way, fake breasts, butt, anyone taking "enlarging" pills, I simply cannot see a honorable or respectable person do that to her or himself.
I'm going to call bullshit here. This reeks of someone sitting astride a high horse, and if you don't actually have a chip on your shoulder because of your stance, I owe you an apology, but am going to call the stance bullshit regardless. Would you criticize someone for trying to overcome a birth defect? For trying to cure their blindness, or deafness, triumph over being crippled, or mentally addled, or anything of the sort, because they "didn't accept themselves"? I'm willing to doubt it.
Gender dysphoria can be every bit as destructive to a person's life, potentially moreso because the subject doesn't necessarily have a clear indication there's a problem, or how to deal with it. A blind person knows they're blind; they know they can't see. They know what their issue is, and have more ability to come to terms with it, because it's right there in front of them. This is not necessarily such an easily identified, diagnosed, or easily (if such a word as "easy" can be used in this context) coped with issue, and because it's not as obvious, or not as widely recognized, it can be seen as not as important, and thus can be allowed to run its potentially destructive course, unabated, throughout a person's entire life. Yes, there are more than enough people who use it as an excuse for attention, or hell, even a change of lifestyle for the hell of it. But for some people it's like being crippled, often with having no way of knowing what's wrong, and having no way of coming to terms with it.
And if you really just don't understand that, that's... well, understandable. But if you're using the fact that it's not your problem as an excuse to look down on it, then truly, shame on you, and all others like you.