Journal Just Jennifer's Journal: So, What's Wrong With Transgender?
The term "transgender" took on its current usage around the mid-Nineties. Prior to that, there were transsexuals, who changed sex...and transvestites or crossdressers who liked to wear the clothing of the opposite sex. A transvestite leader by the name of Arnold Lowman, who used the pseudonyms "Charles Prince," and "Virginia Prince" came up with the term "transgenderist" to describe those who crossdressed full-time but who had no desire to actually change sex.
During the Nineties, a movement began that pushed the idea that there was strength in numbers, and that transsexuals and transvestites should unite in order to advocate for their rights. They chose the term "transgender" to describe this movement. Unfortunately, the people behind this idea tended to be extremely radical and quickly began pushing ideas like the "deconstruction of gender" and doing away with binary gender. That is, the idea that gender is simply a product of upbringing (disproven by numerous scientific studies) and that unisex is preferable. Never mind that most experiments in unisex wind up with everyone looking like men (think Maoist China).
This evolved into today's transgender movement when demands that people "accept" even the most absurd claims of men desiring to be women, or vice versa. Further they fight to blur the difference between transsexuals and crossdressers. If a person asserts that they are a transsexual and do not identify as "transgender" they will viciously attacked, called elitist, and it will be demanded that they accept the label transgender whether they want to or not.
Now, personally, I don't care if someone wants to call their self transgender. That is their right. I do care if they try to impose that label on me. I do not share stuff in common with crossdressers and transvestites, and I do not believe that we are just different versions of the same thing. Nor do I share the political and social goals of many who identify as transgender.
Most who identify as transgender strongly identify their birth sex while claiming to have changed, or at least be changing, to the opposite sex. They often do wish to be simply one sex, or one gender. They want to be "different," where most transsexuals want to be "normal." And for some reason, this deeply bothers them.
Personally, given my choice, the transgender would go their way, and let transsexuals be. They have caused real harm to transsexuals, but they refuse to stop. When they are asked, they tend to just become angry.
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