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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's definitely a trend. It's being promoted heavily by the powerful gay lobby, which lost its major fundraising hook when the Supreme Court approved gay marriage.

There is little scientific evidence to support the idea that humans can change genders but whatever....
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I need to ask my lesbian DD what the gay lobby wants. She’ll probably claim she just wants to be treated with dignity and enjoy equal rights under the law, but all that money must be for something nefarious like Making America Fabulous Again.

BTW, most trans people aren’t gay or lesbian. [/quote]

Depends on how you define trans.

There's a lot of murkiness surrounding the issue and that it's become a hot political subject all of a sudden has unfortunately made it difficult to get a firm handle on what it means or what it should be. While I do understand the thinking that tries to establish a parallel between the rise of transgenderism and the growth in acceptance and rights for homosexuals, I also think it's a mistake to think that one is the same as the other and should be evaluated in the same light.

For example, what's not popular to say these days is that there has historically been a very high overlap between self-identified transgenders and other psychological issues. Transgenderism also reopens the entire subject of whether there's a bona-fide "female brain" as opposed to a"male brain" (wholly separate from our male or female bodies), and this is a concept that has historically been used to argue the inferiority of the female to the male for most of human history and one that the feminist movement fought strongly to defeat. It also opens up the entire topic of whether women have the right to own their gender (with all the social and biological history that comes with it) or they must share it with transgender men (who do not).

I do find the topic fascinating, to tell the truth. Part of it is trying to understand the science of transgenderism (and unlike what some may want to think, it really is not a scientifically settled matter), and part of it is the politics of transgenderism, and the effect they have on each other. [/quote]

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