I don't get this. When I hear about TG people my brain immediately thinks, "first-world problems" and shuts off.
People in this country have real problems they can't hide or ignore. Try being a black person for instance. How about Native American? How about being born a woman? Struggles people in the country have been facing since, well, pretty much we became a county; struggles people in this country are still facing every day.
Now we have these "poor white boys" with nothing better on their plates than to complain they should be a woman. Sorry, but I think every downtrodden, minority in the country has the right to flip you off right about now "ladies". And if you are a transgender minority... masochistic much??
I get being gay or bi. I fully support that and I'll stand by anyone who fights for their rights as that. It's not a choice, it's biological. I've worked with animals for years and even in other areas of the animal kingdom, homosexuality is present. Guess what though, transgender doesn't exist anywhere in nature except for humans. It's a man-made issue by people with nothing better to do.
I can go back to the 70's and 80's and I get the message. People trying to make a statement and make others think outside the box, break the rules, not judge a book by its cover, etc. In the 90's-00's you also had "Goth" - I was friends with most of them. Hell, I was even one myself. Some wore makeup, some wore women's clothing, some dyed their hair, some did all of that (my hair was reddish/blue and I wore black nail polish, combat boots and a trench coat... to answer your question). Again, it was done mostly to challenge people's preconceptions - most I knew were straight A students and even offered their professors some interesting conversation.
At no point did any of the TG people I knew in the past or the goths I went to school with think that this was some sort of way of life they were going to go protest equality for. That wasn't what it was about. It was just having the freedom to do what you wanted to do and make people reconsider their thought process along the way.
Now I see transgender issues all across the news and when I was just getting used to LGB they threw a T on the end of it. No. Being trans is definitely, 100% a choice. It disrespects people with actual civil rights problems to lump transgender in with them.
Just because some people with too much time on their hands who misinterpreted Rocky Horror Picture Show decide to form a movement, doesn't mean the rest of us have to listen, does it?
People in this country have real problems they can't hide or ignore. Try being a black person for instance. How about Native American? How about being born a woman? Struggles people in the country have been facing since, well, pretty much we became a county; struggles people in this country are still facing every day.
Now we have these "poor white boys" with nothing better on their plates than to complain they should be a woman. Sorry, but I think every downtrodden, minority in the country has the right to flip you off right about now "ladies". And if you are a transgender minority... masochistic much??
I get being gay or bi. I fully support that and I'll stand by anyone who fights for their rights as that. It's not a choice, it's biological. I've worked with animals for years and even in other areas of the animal kingdom, homosexuality is present. Guess what though, transgender doesn't exist anywhere in nature except for humans. It's a man-made issue by people with nothing better to do.
I can go back to the 70's and 80's and I get the message. People trying to make a statement and make others think outside the box, break the rules, not judge a book by its cover, etc. In the 90's-00's you also had "Goth" - I was friends with most of them. Hell, I was even one myself. Some wore makeup, some wore women's clothing, some dyed their hair, some did all of that (my hair was reddish/blue and I wore black nail polish, combat boots and a trench coat... to answer your question). Again, it was done mostly to challenge people's preconceptions - most I knew were straight A students and even offered their professors some interesting conversation.
At no point did any of the TG people I knew in the past or the goths I went to school with think that this was some sort of way of life they were going to go protest equality for. That wasn't what it was about. It was just having the freedom to do what you wanted to do and make people reconsider their thought process along the way.
Now I see transgender issues all across the news and when I was just getting used to LGB they threw a T on the end of it. No. Being trans is definitely, 100% a choice. It disrespects people with actual civil rights problems to lump transgender in with them.
Just because some people with too much time on their hands who misinterpreted Rocky Horror Picture Show decide to form a movement, doesn't mean the rest of us have to listen, does it?
