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Well people in strong relationships have better mental health. I mean, ask yourself, would you have had a relationship with a man who had transitioned to be a woman?
David. This is not on. You don't know who is 'listening' out there. This is not about being PC. Intentional or not, this is hurtful stuff and the reason why laws have to be enacted.
The problem, I feel, is that certain activist groups can force an agenda, and try to squash other points of view using PC. I mean, the BBC was actually discussing transgender issues in small children recently. I'll bet a lot of parents find that uncomfortable, and with good reason, but the activists get heard, and the concerned parents probably don't.
The political correctness movement first appeared as a way to denounce real discrimination. Demeaning certain groups because you do not understand their struggle is not courageous. Telling the truth about particular issue, however, is different ie actual event that are happening in the world that the media prefers not to report because is undermines the mainstream narrative. You have no experience of this issue, and your comments seem to be based on ideas that you embraced in the 1950's.
I mean, I suppose I see transgender people as vulnerable - not least to the zealots that don't want to know about the potential drawbacks.
David
I understand what you are trying to say here (I think), but mostly I think "Of course transpeople are vulnerable!!" It is very difficult to change a characteristic so primary to our identity without great psychological turmoil. Roberta is right to state that transpeople have high suicide rates, depression and do face discrimination in many, many ways. In contrast, I think that the swing to gender fluidity and all the language associated with alternative gender identity signals will have a negative impact on some people. Allowing or encouraging a child to chemically or physically manipulate their gender before they are mature enough to understand the long term effects and impact that it may have (often just to prove how 'understanding' the parents, educators etc are) is quite disturbing.
However, in no way should we allow our prejudices about how we should look, feel or associate with dictate how other people live their lives.