For Gay and lesbian people, Do you personally have a problem with...?

Question

Being lumped together with Transgendered people?
(I believe they don't consider them selves Gay, just born with the wrong genitalia.) Is there a similarity?

Dr. Dave
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Answer 1

I'm bisexual, and no, I definitely do not have a problem hanging out in the same 'category' as transpeople. Some of them are gay (like lesbian transwomen and gay transmen), some are straight, and being transsexual is definitely different from being gay or bisexual. But I believe the GLBT umbrella is shared not because of our common nature (we have no common nature; gay is about sexual orientation and trans is about gender identity), but because of our common experiences: we are viewed as outside the mainstream. Many non-mainstream sexualities have found comfort under the queer umbrella, like straight leatherfolk and BDSM practicioners, 'queer' straights, straight polyamorists, straight nudists, you name it. What unites us is not what we like to do in bed or what gender we feel we are, but that mainstream society oftentimes marginalizes us all because we are not like them. For us to band together makes us strong in order to show sex and gender diversity; we'd have far less power in separate, segregated groups (not to mention it seems pretty hypocritical for people who were themselves shunned from society). We have similar experiences of oppression, discrimination, invisibility and marginalization, and we come together because of this.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

I think all the groups in the acronym are fighting for equal rights against the same people. We should stick together for the benefit of each group. Also, playing with gender plays with sexuality to some extent. If someone stops pretending to be a straight woman and transitions, he's a gay guy. Or if a gay guy or gal transitions, many try to maintain their ties to people in the gay/lesbian communities. We're all basically very diverse people fighting for equal rights and struggling to be able to be true to ourselves. We may as well band together and support each other.

Answer 3

GLBT people are all discriminated against. We do not have same sex marriage, and it is very difficult for transgendered persons to have legal documents changed. The overly righteous want everyone to think that we are all the same, that we came from the same cookie cutter and if we act different then there must something wrong with us, that we need a "cure". My "God" loves all of us and made us exactly the way we are for a purpose. My "God" loves my son BECAUSE he is gay, he loves my friends BECAUSE they are transgendered or gay or lesbian, or have HIV. Sorry, I almost got on my soapbox! It could just be that GLB needed something more and it was the "T".

Answer 4

Here you go sweetie. Educate yourself:

Transgender, from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society.

Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as male, female, both or neither) not matching one's "assigned gender" (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex). Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation (transgender people may be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual or asexual.)

Definitions are set forth below, but the precise definition for transgender remains in flux.

"Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender, but combines or moves between these" (Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Entry 2004)
"People who were assigned a gender, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves."
"Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the gender one was assigned at birth."
A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional gender continuum, or exist outside of it as "other," "agender," "intergender," or "third gender."

Transgender people may also identify as both male and female, or along several places on either the traditional transgender continuum, or the more encompassing continuums which have been developed in response to the significantly more detailed studies done in recent years.

Answer 5

Not at all. I have a problem being lumped into the same category as rapists and child molesters.

Answer 6

No I don't personally have a problem with it. Transgendered people might have a problem with it, though.

Answer 7

We're all queer. We all have to worry about losing our jobs and being killed because of who we are.

There's also a lot of genderqueerness/gender non normative identity among some segments of the gay/lesbian community.

Answer 8

No, not really. They're up against similar societal situations so why not travel the yellow birck road together?

Answer 9

I don't have a problem with it. We fight many of the same battles.

Answer 10

no difference thy all the same lol