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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Very few of us aren't fake ass bitches.

Myself, I'm Mediterranean. Can't change my DNA prone to massive hirsuteness, but damn well better believe I'll try and remove what I can to be a happier person, while harming absolutely no one in the process.

That's fine, but you probably don't expect people to believe you no longer have a Mediterranean background.

Really, this isn't difficult.

I've never heard a transgender person ask people to deny their past, or even DNA. Just to acknowledge who they choose to be. Sorry it affects you so much?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Do you also say this to the people who dye their hair? I'm looking at you, fake blondes, redheads, and those with mysteriously disappearing grays.

But we don't say "Now she's truly a blonde!"
No, we acknowledge that it's a cosmetic change. Idiot.

You're absolutely right. I wonder though, is DNA responsible for your classless disposition?

Anonymous wrote:Let's see - a month or so ago, during The Interview, he said that he wasn't going to change his name now.

I guess the publicity is dying down.

He never said that, he said he wasn't releasing the name yet. Now he did.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Very few of us aren't fake ass bitches.

Myself, I'm Mediterranean. Can't change my DNA prone to massive hirsuteness, but damn well better believe I'll try and remove what I can to be a happier person, while harming absolutely no one in the process.

That's fine, but you probably don't expect people to believe you no longer have a Mediterranean background.

Really, this isn't difficult.

Let's see - a month or so ago, during The Interview, he said that he wasn't going to change his name now.

I guess the publicity is dying down.

Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Very few of us aren't fake ass bitches.

Myself, I'm Mediterranean. Can't change my DNA prone to massive hirsuteness, but damn well better believe I'll try and remove what I can to be a happier person, while harming absolutely no one in the process.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Do you also say this to the people who dye their hair? I'm looking at you, fake blondes, redheads, and those with mysteriously disappearing grays.

But we don't say "Now she's truly a blonde!"
No, we acknowledge that it's a cosmetic change. Idiot.

Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

But you can change your clothes, lifestyle and name. So, hooray for Caitlyn!

I can't wait to see what Caitlyn wears to go to Starbucks. Ditch the tracksuits please!!

Anonymous wrote:Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Do you also say this to the people who dye their hair? I'm looking at you, fake blondes, redheads, and those with mysteriously disappearing grays.

She looks amazing! I am happy for her - if you watch the video clip from Vanity Fair, she talks about not having any secrets now that this cover is out. What a weight off that much be, secrets really can eat away at you, and I've never had a secret as serious as this one.

Now, that said - on the last thread on this topic, I have to admit, the points being made about body dysmorphic disorder were thought-provoking. People raised some good points. I don't think shutting that conversation down with "bigot" or "mean" is very useful, because I think it's a pretty valid question. Now of course, some people are posing the question hatefully, and that's not right.

But, what I decided after thinking about that (and that thread was the first time I'd ever considered the question) - is I'm going to leave it to the experts. It seems like right now, the vast majority of the mental health profession accepts transgender as a true biological "mistake" rather than a mental illness. And I do think that there is a continuum of gender, from tomboys to prissy girls, from flaming dudes to manly men. So it makes sense to me that people could have been "assigned" a certain section of that continuum, and it was a wrong assignment. I'm going to go ahead and live with more peace and love, and also trust in mental health professionals.

But I do find the dysmorphic disorder question a very interesting one, and I think it's a reasonable conversation to have when you're not talking to someone actively going through a transition.

Can't change DNA. Sorry, Bruce.

Anonymous wrote:I'll bet he twerks when he's alone watching himself in the mirror.

Isn't that the point of Zumba class (for which I am guilty)?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the responses on this thread just show how far we have to go on this issue. People openly spewed the same hateful and ignorant garbage about interracial marriage and gay people just a generation or two ago. You all are on the wrong side of history and really need to educate yourselves.

Leaving that aside, don't love the name Caitlyn but she looks great on the cover.

Oh please.

I am supposed to think this is normal because it is on the cover of vanity fair???

It isn't. it is weird and slightly gross.

Do what you want to do - get a sex change, wear dresses, have sex with animals for all I care, but I don't have to consider your behaviors a normal part of society because pop culture says so.

I won't persecute you for it but I will certainly judge you and think you have mental problems.

Damn. I mean, I think a lot of stuff is "weird and slightly gross," but don't feel a personal need to comment on the things people do in their lives, that have absolutely zero effect on me. If I do need to assert myself on any and every decision others make about their lives, I think that'd make me the FAR more weird and gross one.

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Anonymous wrote:From the Wheaties box to the Fruitloop box.

DNA don't lie and no amount of tucking your junk makes you a female. Some sick shit right there.

Hmm, that's an interesting question. You know in crime scenes (maybe too much CSI for me) the technicians find DNA evidence at the scene and back at the lab they determine it belongs to a male, along with other identifiers. I wonder after the full transformation what would his reveal. Okay, I know before I get the snarly replies, too much damn television.

Her dna will still be XY.