Why are transgendered people put into the same category as gay, lesbian and bisexual people?

Answer 1

And why not also fetishists & BD/SM and the rest of the "sex deviants"?

Don't get me wrong - I perfectly understand that transgenders aren't about sexual orientation but rather about gender (hence the name).

I can't speak for Y!Answers (consider re-posting your question in that category) but perhaps some well-intentioned soul thought that orientation might be an issue (I've known some MtF lesbians and an FtM gay). At least, unlike the fetishists and the BD/SM'ers, you've got a place where you can post. And while the GLB community don't share many of the issues, we commonly share being ostracised by elements of the non-medically corrected straight community.

I have nothing but admiration for those among us who will brave the ridicule of their neighbours and colleagues by opting to live as they were meant to be. I believe, in the UK, they have to undergo two years of crossdressing, hormone treatments and psychiatric counselling; before they'll be accepted for medical correction. That must be a damn site tougher than coming out as gay.

Answer 2

i think the "T" in GLBT should stand for transsexual. The term transgender lumps together people with a condition of GID with people who crossdress for some kind of sexual fetish desire. Understanding that some of those who crossdress are in fact TS. To me taking someone with a birth defect and lumping them together with those who simply have a fetish is offensive. the term transgender was no doubt coined by someone to give this fetish some sort of legitimacey. Being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transsexual was not a choice. You are born that way. Having a fetish is perfectly fine many people do, but it should not be put together with people whose sexual orientation or gender was decided in the womb

Answer 3

They are grouped in with Gay/Lesbian/BiSexuals bec str8 people really do not accept them. It has nothing to do with - If he changes into a woman then likes men, he/she was gay. If he becomes a woman then he is a she now...And if she likes men she is str8. They feel they are a man or woman trapped in the wrong body.

Answer 4

Because ppl like to put discriminated ppl in the same category. It's messed up, b/c ppl are idiots. STOP categorizing ppl is what I say to the world! Everyone has feelings! People are people.

Answer 5

If a man changes himself into a woman, then likes women, he/she has become a lesbian.

If he changes into a woman then likes men, he/she was gay.

Either way there is some sexual complexity going on, far too much for simple non transexual types to understand.

People are trying to understand it's just really hard.

Answer 6

Anyone that is not heterosexual falls into the same category as sexual deviant in most heterosexual eyes meaning that truly in 60% of their eyes we are no better than pedophiles this is why once a week we get questions about pedophiles here. also this is why daily we get bubba telling us we are going to hell for our sins.

Answer 7

I'm not really sure... but I think they just place all the sexual minorities in a single category.

It also could be that because sexual orientation support/activist groups help all sexual minorities.

Answer 8

because so far they are all cnsidered sexual deviations and most people somehow thinks that for this they all have things in common (nothing appart that the struggle to come out on society)

Answer 9

Because TG people don't fit into the mold of usual "normal", straight people.

Answer 10

Because they all have a different sexual orientation than the "majority".