Love to hear back, is my opinion hate based?
You've clearly thought about it a lot, enough to write 18 paragraphs (and you are much more eloquent than ChatGPT, by an order of magnitude, so you didn't copy it from AI).
My writing habits are based on spending a lot of time thinking, while at the same time being a fast typist, so it's not a big deal to whip off a lot of prose quickly.
However, all the things you think about Trans people are negative things. So there is some suspicion that your opinion is hate based, or certainly is not balanced.
And here's where I differ. At this point, I've met a few transgenders in the past, and in recent years met a few more. My honest opinion is that there is some dysphoria and dysmorphia going on. Some of the guy to gal transitions are pretty nice folk. At this time I don't personally know any FTM trans.
But back to the dysphoria and dysmorphia. There is a relationship between that and anorexia. They don't feel right in their skin. And yet we don't encourage those poor souls to stop eating or become bulimic in order to express their state.
Which brings me to the part I don't like. It isn't the souls with gender dysphoria, it's the people who encourage it. It's the people who want that transitioning to start before children even reach puberty. And who want to surgically alter them before they can even reach the age of consent. I don't hate trans people - I utterly, totally and truly do hate the people who did that to this young person https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Poor kid, still hasn't recovered completely from where they amputated her breasts - at 15 years old. Some people of course, consider her plight to be just collateral damage to be ignored. It is pretty easy to talk little children into things, and if you might remember that there are all kind of mood swings and other stuff in teenagers as they grow into their final mental form.
Which is why I believe that if a person wants to transition to a different gender, it shouldn't happen until they reach adulthood, when they can give informed consent to the procedures needed to physically alter their appearance. At that time, I have zero issues. If they decide a couple years later they want their penis or breasts back, it's a problem, but they knew that going in.
If you do actually get to meet trans people, you may find that one of the most interesting topics is testosterone vs estrogen, and how it affects our perception of gender. Although it really helps to experience it, in that case.
As I noted, I've met a few. Even back in the 1970's College campuses have had transgender people ever since I''ve been on them. It's no big deal.
Nuance is now considered evil. A person who thinks about issues and does not see all issues as black and white soundbites is immediately labeled as something phobic. And the replies to my posts on this issue just might possibly tell us something more about the poster than me. They read the parts and whatever they don't like causes them to ignore the others. Yes, a person who thinks that children should be transitioned as early as possible, and that having gender or sexual dysmorphia must be acted on ASAP will think I'm a bigot of the highest order.
I don't care about them, because they have their minds made up just like climate or vaccine denialists. There is a interesting connection between those groups.
I have long posted that I don't care about adults transitioning. I have also long posted that I do have an issue with children doing this. Consent about matters tied so intimately to sexuality should be just as legally constrained as consent to engage in sex.
So if you want to believe I hate transgenders, that of course is your right, and you are welcome to think so.
Is that hate? I suppose to some of the people who really want as many people to transition, who demand that their opinion must be strictly obeyed, and if one does not 100 percent agree, they are a bigoted phobic - yeah, they would claim so.
Or is it more an idea that consenting adults should make their own decisions? Is there a phobic word for that?