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Comment on Why Transgender People In Japan Prefer To Be Told They Have A "Disorder" in ~lgbt
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Comment on Why Transgender People In Japan Prefer To Be Told They Have A "Disorder" in ~lgbt
Paige Link ParentThe distinction is between gender dysphoria and being transgender. Being transgender is not a mental illness. We can be trans without having dysphoria. Dysphoria is currently treated as a mental...The distinction is between gender dysphoria and being transgender. Being transgender is not a mental illness. We can be trans without having dysphoria. Dysphoria is currently treated as a mental disorder, not a mental illness. A big distinction being that if you let someone with gender dysphoria pursue what they want, what dysphoria drives us to do (transition), our condition improves. If you let someone with a mental illness pursue what they are being driven to do, like schizophrenia, they will often harm themselves or others.
Additionally, just because gender dysphoria isn't classified as a mental illness doesn't mean that it's not something that needs to be medically treated. A pregnancy isn't a mental illness, but pregnant people still get access to medical care. I would argue that it is better to treat gender dysphoria as a symptom of a medical condition of the body, not the mind. After all, it's our bodies that are the problem, and our bodies that need to change, not our minds. This is why I believe the WHO reclassification is a good thing for us. It reclassifies gender dysphoria to something that's still a valid medical condition that needs treatment, but not a mental illness, with everything that goes along with that.
This can even be used as ammunition in the fight for insurance to cover more trans surgeries. If gender dysphoria is treated as a symptom of a fundamental problem with our bodies, it can be argued that surgeries like Facial feminization, top surgery for guys, and hysterectomies are not cosmetic, but medically necessary.
Anyway, I think I've wandered a bit off topic. I don't mean to deflect from what trans activists in Japan are struggling for. I think their position is very valid, and it would be pretty ethnocentric for me to suggest that trans people in Japan should be left behind, or that their struggle can't have different solutions and tactics to ours in the west.
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Comment on EDC Thread? in ~hobbies
Paige Link ParentNo. I'm not much of a swimmer anyway. If I'm at the beach or a pool it's usually for the sun, not the water. If I do get in I don't go deep enough to get the mini revolver wet. It probably would...No. I'm not much of a swimmer anyway. If I'm at the beach or a pool it's usually for the sun, not the water. If I do get in I don't go deep enough to get the mini revolver wet. It probably would be fine if I got it accidentally wet though (besides the ammo), but I haven't found out yet.
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Comment on EDC Thread? in ~hobbies
Paige LinkSpring/Summer: First gen M&P Shield 9mm in IWB kydex loaded with 7rd flush mag carrying Speer Gold dot 124gr JHP +P 1x 8rd pinky extention mag in IWB single mag carrier Phone, Keys, credit/debit...Spring/Summer:
First gen M&P Shield 9mm in IWB kydex loaded with 7rd flush mag carrying Speer Gold dot 124gr JHP +P
1x 8rd pinky extention mag in IWB single mag carrier
Phone, Keys, credit/debit cards in a business card carrier, sometimes in a purse, but usually just in pockets or in hand.Fall/Winter:
Gen 3 Glock 26 in Galco Classic lite shoulder carried with flush 10 rd mag, and additional 17rd mag. Same Speer Ammo. Concealed under a jacket usually.
Phone, keys, cards usually carried in pockets.On the 2 or 3 days a year that it's gets cold enough where I live to wear a big parka I'll upgun to a Glock 35 with Stormlake .357 Sig barrel, carried in the same Galco classic lite. 124gr Hornady XTP in that, with an extra 15 round mag.
If I'm at the beach, or a pool I'll wear a bikini with padded top, then I'll stick a North American Arms 22 Magnum mini revolver into the pocket that holds the padding, just behind the padding. It's not very quick to access, and probably less than 100% safe to carry that way, and the NAA 22mag is barely a gun, but it is a gun, and it's the only thing I can conceal when I'm wearing something like that. CCI minimag 40gr JHP for that.
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Comment on Why Transgender People In Japan Prefer To Be Told They Have A "Disorder" in ~lgbt
Paige Link ParentThanks for taking my points into consideration. Your right, it is a bit rude. You should understand though that you are coming into our space, engaging in a topic that does not effect you, and not...Thanks for taking my points into consideration.
Okay well attacking me right off the bat isn't really helpful. Does it mean men transitioning to women? Women transitioning to men? Attacking someone because they don't know the terminology is just going to cause people to be defensive or feel attacked. If you want someone to listen, you probably should refrain.
Your right, it is a bit rude. You should understand though that you are coming into our space, engaging in a topic that does not effect you, and not doing us the simple courtesy of engaging in the conversation with appropriate vocabulary. Yes, I understand that it's possible for you to genuinely not know, but these things can be found very easily with a simple google search. Coming into our space and expecting us to do the work to educate you is also rude, and entitled. Is it appropriate for me to be rude in response to your rudeness? No, I suppose it's not, so I apologize. Since I took the time to point out my problem with your questioning, I might as well go ahead and take the time to answer it.
A transgender woman is a woman who was incorrectly assigned male at birth. A transgender man is a man who was incorrectly assigned female at birth. In western cultures we typically assign one of two strict genders based on anatomical sex organs, which works in the vast majority of cases, but is often life ruining when it doesn't (resulting in transgender people). Yes, the term trans woman refers to the same people as "Male to Female" does. It's a much more accurate term though because it does not misrepresent the biological realities of gender identity. Gender identity is something everyone is born with, including you. It's not something we chose. meaning a trans woman has always been a woman, even if we where forced to pretend to be men for some time, and even if we don't necessarily realize it right away. This is why it's inappropriate to say a trans woman is a "man transitioning to woman". We are women, and we always have been. We never were men.
This is just semantics at this point, and isn't a huge deal. We are in fact talking about the same thing, but it's still important to point out, as using problematic terminology misrepresents our lived reality, and is effectively spreading misinformation.
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Comment on Abduction as romance in ~movies
Paige LinkThis is a good critique, I'm just sad that it even needs to be said at all. When women watch movies like the transporter, and v for vendetta, this shit is obvious. My reaction to this video essay...This is a good critique, I'm just sad that it even needs to be said at all. When women watch movies like the transporter, and v for vendetta, this shit is obvious. My reaction to this video essay is kinda just "well no shit". Still though, I've spent enough time on reddit to know that this shit is probably a shocking new perspective to a lot of guys, so I guess it does need to be said.
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Comment on Why Transgender People In Japan Prefer To Be Told They Have A "Disorder" in ~lgbt
Paige Link ParentI agree with everything Kat said in their reply, so I'm just going to add on to it here. The problem with this argument is that you are valuing the lives and health of hypothetical cis children...I agree with everything Kat said in their reply, so I'm just going to add on to it here.
Kids do stuff with long term consequences all the time without understanding the consequences. This has nothing to do with common sense and everything to do with how humans behave and how developed our brains are by certain ages.
The problem with this argument is that you are valuing the lives and health of hypothetical cis children over the actual lived negative experiences in the lives and on the health of real trans people, right now. In the current western healthcare systems care like puberty blockers is very difficult to impossible to access for many trans kids. This is extremely damaging. Without puberty blockers, trans children undergo permanent, irreversible, extremely damaging changes to their body, often causing massive, and sometimes fatal amounts of dysphoria. Cis children who mistakenly undergo puberty blockers can later reverse the effects of their transition without any permanent or lasting damage. Before getting on full HRT at 18, the small amount of children who turn out to be cis, can very easily and successfully detransition.
Your argument is inherently cis-sexist because you are putting more value on the lives of hypothetical cis children than on the very real trans kids who are dying today from lack of access to care. Your concern trolling is very damaging to trans people, and the prevalence of this attitude is not only cis-sexist, and transphobic, but directly leads to the unnecessary suffering and/or death of trans people today.
You're referring to MtF I assume?
I don't believe for a minute that you didn't know exactly what Kat meant when they said "trans women". "MtF" is a pretty problematic acronym that isn't really used outside of medical conversations. Trans women are women, and always have been, we didn't go from "male to female", and trans men didn't go from "female to male". Gender identity is a biological reality, meaning I was born a woman in exactly the same way a cis woman is.
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Comment on The World Health Organization announces it no longer classifies being transgender as a mental disorder in ~lgbt
Paige Link ParentHalf an hour breaking down a Ben Shapiro video? That might qualify as self harm.Half an hour breaking down a Ben Shapiro video? That might qualify as self harm.
You're welcome, so glad I was accidentally helpful. Good luck to you.