I have known a transgendered individual.
She worked for my dad and had to confide in him because of background documents required for the job. She was a nice person and frankly I always got a kick out a how utterly competent she was - she is the only woman I know who can fix a car, a computer, a drain, a hole in the roof (tho I realize there are many such women - she's the only one I know.)
I think it is very good to be honest with yourself early on about what's going on because one of the worse things this person I know ever did was GET MARRIED TO A WOMAN AND PRODUCE A CHILD. Okay, that wasn't the worse thing - the worse thing was waiting until the child was born to get the courage to reveal who he really was or wanted to be. he lacked guts, and its quite a lot to put on a kid, to break up his home and give him two mommies.
The saddest thing for me is that this transgendered woman is so alone. Whenever she gets close enough to a man to seriously date him, she breaks up to avoid revealing who she is. What I see is a person who has mutilated the body he was born with. I find it difficult to see that level of self-rejection as healthy. We are not like michalangelo's sculptures, waiting inside our bodies waiting to be formed. We are formed and I think, based on this woman's level of alienation and the suicide of another friend's transgendered friend, that sex reassignment is a bad way to cope with how we are formed.
My 13 year old son, who has grown up with the transgendered woman visiting my parents home at the same time we did - holiday meals, summer vacations, etc. He was never told because the woman wishes to be private, but when some kids he knew were talking about transgendered people, he asked if we knew anyone who was tg, and i said yes, whom do you think that person is and he told me, first guess (not a guess.) To me, she's trying to pass as something anyone who is paying attention can see she is not. Her dissatisfaction with herself, her lack of comfort in her own skin, is so palpable it's painful. I don't know if she was born gay - which is what my 13 yo said - i think he shoulda stayed gay instead of getting surgery to make it acceptable to be attracted to men - or just was highly in tune with his "feminine side." I just wish he had found acceptance and love for who he was and didn't spend his life and money creating an alternative persona. The point of life is to get out there and live it, not find ways to dress or rearrange body parts to mask who we are and cope with the stress of life and of choosing to avoid life.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2006-08-09 02:03:42
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answered by cassandra 6
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I would say it is totally wrong and unexeptable in my view I mean I don't think God would honor that too much but if you feel that is what you need to do then I guess you can being I'm a christian I won't hold it agianst you God Bless
2006-08-09 08:58:16
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answered by SportsFan 1
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I think sex ressignment is wrong. God made u who u r today don't change that. You will end up in hell.
2006-08-09 08:42:56
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answered by Dorothy 2
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Yes, we know. You've stated this FOUR TIMES, now shut up already.
2006-08-09 08:37:48
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answered by Guppy Geek 5
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i think it is intriguing . my little brother is gay and i support him and go to pride with him . i also belong to a GLTB group .
2006-08-09 09:01:46
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answered by mick 4
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exceptable
because if god wanted everyone to be perfect he would have made us perfect with no inperfection
2006-08-09 09:09:13
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answered by kay2angel 4
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