Except that you're wrong because you fail to distinguish between transgendered people, such as cross-dressers, and transsexuals. Your girlfriend obviously values her functioning penis, which means there is no dysphoria between the body and the mind's perception of it, just a choice in public presentation, same as any other cross-dresser.
Which means you're just 2 gay gays having a gay old time. Nothing wrong with that, but why not just admit it?
So, the music industry, which until now absolutely loved the DMCA because they could hide behind the "good-faith" clause, is now upset that someone else is doing the same thing? Go cry me a river, then look up "Law of unintended consequences."
You can already command your computer or smart phone by voice without a dorky $400 headset and $100 board. And by touch. And if there was a real need for an app that would do stuff when you wink at it, it would already be out there. Oh wait - it's already possible for handicapped people to control their computers by sight.
So you would have no objection if you were the first to be put up against the wall and shot, I trust. Live by Darwin. die by Darwin. The elite of France didn't see the revolution coming either.
That doesn't change the fact that transsexualism is now known to have a physical cause. You're confusing cause and effect. Gender dysphoria is the effect, not the cause, which kind of moots everything you wrote.
Also, you;re linking to outdated info. From the link you DIDN'T include, but which is the source of your claims about diagnostic criteria:
For the adult criteria, we propose, on a preliminary basis, the requirement of only 2 indicators.
The recognized standards body is WPATH, and the current standards are laid out in SoC 7. WPATH recognizes that there is a difference between gender-non-conforming individuals and those with gender dysphoria. Physicians, even in the US, follow WPATH recommendations, not the APA, which was a late-comer to the process. As I said, try to keep up.:-)
That's like saying that if you whip a dog often enough, it's still the dog's choice if it cringes the next time you approach it. Emotions work below the level of logic. For example, most people who wouldn't blink to kill a mosquito or a fly with their bare hand can't seem to bring themselves to do it with a spider - they go running around looking for a shoe, a newspaper (look out spiders - those ipads are killers), or someone else to kill it, even though the difference between a dead insect and a dead arachnid is insignificant - they're both dead once you hit them.
That pretty well sums it up. And unfortunately, as in any war, ideological or physical, there are no victors, just one side losing less than the other. And of course any apologist for the killings at Charlie Hebdo is off their nut, and an example of how being politically correct to the extreme ends up in not being able to draw a line at what, if any, sort of behavior is unacceptable.
Thanks. That's one of the things that came out of therapy - that, despite how hard it sometimes is, if I could go back and change anything in the past, I wouldn't be me... who knows, I might have ended up an even more arrogant, selfish bitch:-)
On days like today, when it's bright and sunny outside, and above freezing!!! even at night, things just have a way of looking better, and I appreciate it more after another winter of down-in-the-dumps.
The radio plays music, same as a smartphone does. But since I can't drive any more, I end up talking with whoever is doing the driving. And conversation is even more out of date, but it works for me.
The woman who is afraid of going on the bus for more than a decade never told anyone else about the rape by her ex. She told me 2 years ago. The stigma is that bad, I couldn't convince her to come with me to get some help at the hospital.
Another woman can't walk alone on the sidewalk of any street with traffic since she was hit by a car that ran a stop sign and banged her up pretty good. She couldn't even cross the street to go to church. Her life is basically limited to a few blocks where there is no traffic. Other than that she stays home alone.
Neither of these women were using illegal drugs or booze. So, if they were to end up homeless, what bad decisions did they make? They have withdrawn so far from the world, in self-defense... they wish they weren't that way, but they have no control over it.
"Tough love?" How is that going to help someone who is homeless because they had a catastrophic illness and lost their job and home? How is that going to help the disabled find a job in this economy, so that they can actually get a place to live? How do you practice "tough love" on the mentally ill, on those who can't keep a job because of side effects of the drugs that help their illness - it's not like taking away their meds is going to suddenly make them employable? How do you practice tough love on a rape victim who has been afraid to get on a bus for a decade so she can look for a job or see the doctor? Or those who are long-term unemployed because they and all their co-workers have been RIF'd and now they are all competing for a much smaller pool of jobs?
It's not like everyone can suddenly become uber drivers to make a few bucks. If they have a car, they're sleeping in it.
I mean, sure, it sucks for them now and it's a terrible shame and stuff, but at what point do you say, "Damn, this person needs to make some better decisions!"
Better decisions? Hey, let's extend that idea. I should have decided to have better parents because they gave me juvenile diabetes. And if I had decided not to be friends with a high school classmate that I didn't know had a long history of schizophrenia, I wouldn't have gotten PTSD when he killed his old man in front of me. And if I hadn't read Dr. John Money's fake research that claimed gender identity was mutable (a whole generation of doctors bought into this before he was exposed as a fraud) I could have decided to transition earlier instead of conforming for as long as I did.
Yep, all bad decisions... I really need to make better decisions, and that will magically fix everything! It's all my fault. Random chance had nothing to do with it.
Fortunately an amazing therapist who has experience dealing with transsexuals with PTSD who are also victims of sexual assault helped me realize that it's not all my fault, some things are truly random events that you cannot protect yourself from or find a reason for when you look back on them. Not everything happens for a reason, not everything is predictable or preventable. That makes the universe a bit scary, but it's reality. Victim-blaming is seen as ugly for a reason.
I don't need it on android, I don't listen to music on a phone. So itunes on my pc is fine, then I sync it to the ipod and the ipod goes back in the car's glove box for a few weeks.
There's a difference between "trans", eg. transgender, and transsexuals. There are plenty of transgenders (cross-dressers, for example) who want to keep their penis and testicles. Transsexuals want to get rid of them. If the need to get rid of them isn't there, they are not gender dysphoric, and as such by definition NOT transsexuals. They're transgender. Same as cross-dressers, agenders, gender fluid, gender queer, etc. None of those are transsexuals.
You can bypass the gatekeepers by seeing an endocrinologist who specializes in dealing with transsexuals. Give the shrinks a fait accompli a few years down the line.
Claiming you're trans means nothing. If you really are, you'll see a specialist because you NEED to transition. It's no big deal to ask for a letter documenting the fact that you are, indeed, a transsexual until you can get your documentation changed.
Not that I've ever been questioned when going to the washroom, but some people obviously have been.
So how about stopping with the irrational fear-mongering?
I am absolutely NOT a misandrist. I think SJWs are stupid, that feminism is dying because it no longer meets the needs of women (or men) who don't want to see life as just a male-vs-female battle, and that political correctness sucks Stop with the stereotyping already.
No, transsexualism itself is now accepted to be a combination of genetics and epigenetics. That's why Gender Identity Disorder had to be removed from the DSM - there was no support for a mental cause.
Gender dysphoria is not just a replacement label - it refers to the discomfort that is the result of transsexualism, not transsexualism itself. Big difference.
You conveniently ignore that the brains of transsexuals are themselves different. That is a physical, not mental, phenomena. And as for "all the political lobbying wrt homosexuality no longer being a disorder", the reality is that there was NO proof that being gay was a mental disorder, but that it still took a lot of lobbying for crusty old farts to either admit it or die off.
The satisfaction rate of people who transition is at least 95%, and as high as 99%, so I don't get where you are getting off stating that there are "plenty of cases where people would have been better off withut transitioning". The only people still pushing these lies are religious fundamentalists, and they have their own agenda.
Doesn't replace the facts. The APA's definition of gender identity was that transsexualism was a mental disorder. Gender dysphoria, on the other hand, allows for (and pretty much mandates) that transsexualism has a physical origin, and that the RESULT is gender dysphoria - a distress about the mismatch of perceived and physical genders, same as you would have if you woke up tomorrow and some naughty bits were missing.
Also, any article that cites John Money in it's first paragraph is seriously f*ckled up. Money was found to have faked ALL of his research. The second-to-last paragraph makes reference to work published in 1966. BTW, the statement "currently, the worldwide Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association continues his work, and helps to set standards of care for the treatment of transsexuals by the medical establishment." is an outright lie - WPATH has been in charge of setting the standards of care for a LONG time.
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Which means you're just 2 gay gays having a gay old time. Nothing wrong with that, but why not just admit it?
So, the music industry, which until now absolutely loved the DMCA because they could hide behind the "good-faith" clause, is now upset that someone else is doing the same thing? Go cry me a river, then look up "Law of unintended consequences."
You can already command your computer or smart phone by voice without a dorky $400 headset and $100 board. And by touch. And if there was a real need for an app that would do stuff when you wink at it, it would already be out there. Oh wait - it's already possible for handicapped people to control their computers by sight.
So you would have no objection if you were the first to be put up against the wall and shot, I trust. Live by Darwin. die by Darwin. The elite of France didn't see the revolution coming either.
That doesn't change the fact that transsexualism is now known to have a physical cause. You're confusing cause and effect. Gender dysphoria is the effect, not the cause, which kind of moots everything you wrote.
Also, you;re linking to outdated info. From the link you DIDN'T include, but which is the source of your claims about diagnostic criteria:
For the adult criteria, we propose, on a preliminary basis, the requirement of only 2 indicators.
The recognized standards body is WPATH, and the current standards are laid out in SoC 7. WPATH recognizes that there is a difference between gender-non-conforming individuals and those with gender dysphoria. Physicians, even in the US, follow WPATH recommendations, not the APA, which was a late-comer to the process. As I said, try to keep up. :-)
That's like saying that if you whip a dog often enough, it's still the dog's choice if it cringes the next time you approach it. Emotions work below the level of logic. For example, most people who wouldn't blink to kill a mosquito or a fly with their bare hand can't seem to bring themselves to do it with a spider - they go running around looking for a shoe, a newspaper (look out spiders - those ipads are killers), or someone else to kill it, even though the difference between a dead insect and a dead arachnid is insignificant - they're both dead once you hit them.
That pretty well sums it up. And unfortunately, as in any war, ideological or physical, there are no victors, just one side losing less than the other. And of course any apologist for the killings at Charlie Hebdo is off their nut, and an example of how being politically correct to the extreme ends up in not being able to draw a line at what, if any, sort of behavior is unacceptable.
Family - our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. No wonder we're the apex predator - we'll even eat our young if they p*ss us off.
Thanks. That's one of the things that came out of therapy - that, despite how hard it sometimes is, if I could go back and change anything in the past, I wouldn't be me ... who knows, I might have ended up an even more arrogant, selfish bitch :-)
On days like today, when it's bright and sunny outside, and above freezing!!! even at night, things just have a way of looking better, and I appreciate it more after another winter of down-in-the-dumps.
There's such a thing as a "GOOD" tech show? :-)
If it were really good, you'd have to pay too much attention to it to be a safe driver, same as texting while driving or other distractions.
The radio plays music, same as a smartphone does. But since I can't drive any more, I end up talking with whoever is doing the driving. And conversation is even more out of date, but it works for me.
As a follow-up:
The woman who is afraid of going on the bus for more than a decade never told anyone else about the rape by her ex. She told me 2 years ago. The stigma is that bad, I couldn't convince her to come with me to get some help at the hospital.
Another woman can't walk alone on the sidewalk of any street with traffic since she was hit by a car that ran a stop sign and banged her up pretty good. She couldn't even cross the street to go to church. Her life is basically limited to a few blocks where there is no traffic. Other than that she stays home alone.
Neither of these women were using illegal drugs or booze. So, if they were to end up homeless, what bad decisions did they make? They have withdrawn so far from the world, in self-defense ... they wish they weren't that way, but they have no control over it.
"Tough love?" How is that going to help someone who is homeless because they had a catastrophic illness and lost their job and home? How is that going to help the disabled find a job in this economy, so that they can actually get a place to live? How do you practice "tough love" on the mentally ill, on those who can't keep a job because of side effects of the drugs that help their illness - it's not like taking away their meds is going to suddenly make them employable? How do you practice tough love on a rape victim who has been afraid to get on a bus for a decade so she can look for a job or see the doctor? Or those who are long-term unemployed because they and all their co-workers have been RIF'd and now they are all competing for a much smaller pool of jobs?
It's not like everyone can suddenly become uber drivers to make a few bucks. If they have a car, they're sleeping in it.
I mean, sure, it sucks for them now and it's a terrible shame and stuff, but at what point do you say, "Damn, this person needs to make some better decisions!"
Better decisions? Hey, let's extend that idea. I should have decided to have better parents because they gave me juvenile diabetes. And if I had decided not to be friends with a high school classmate that I didn't know had a long history of schizophrenia, I wouldn't have gotten PTSD when he killed his old man in front of me. And if I hadn't read Dr. John Money's fake research that claimed gender identity was mutable (a whole generation of doctors bought into this before he was exposed as a fraud) I could have decided to transition earlier instead of conforming for as long as I did.
Yep, all bad decisions ... I really need to make better decisions, and that will magically fix everything! It's all my fault. Random chance had nothing to do with it.
Fortunately an amazing therapist who has experience dealing with transsexuals with PTSD who are also victims of sexual assault helped me realize that it's not all my fault, some things are truly random events that you cannot protect yourself from or find a reason for when you look back on them. Not everything happens for a reason, not everything is predictable or preventable. That makes the universe a bit scary, but it's reality. Victim-blaming is seen as ugly for a reason.
The Panama Papers puts the lie to everything you say about it being better in private hands.
What else do you listen to in the car?
I don't need it on android, I don't listen to music on a phone. So itunes on my pc is fine, then I sync it to the ipod and the ipod goes back in the car's glove box for a few weeks.
There's this thing called a radio ...
You seem to be intent on ignoring the hyper-partisan environment the right has sown, and is so proud of.
There's a difference between "trans", eg. transgender, and transsexuals. There are plenty of transgenders (cross-dressers, for example) who want to keep their penis and testicles. Transsexuals want to get rid of them. If the need to get rid of them isn't there, they are not gender dysphoric, and as such by definition NOT transsexuals. They're transgender. Same as cross-dressers, agenders, gender fluid, gender queer, etc. None of those are transsexuals.
There IS a big difference between the two.
And ignoring all the proof that it's actually not a mental problem doesn't make it a mental problem.
You can bypass the gatekeepers by seeing an endocrinologist who specializes in dealing with transsexuals. Give the shrinks a fait accompli a few years down the line.
I figured that by now podcasts would have gone the way of the dodo, same as powerpoint - 4x as long to express half the content, badly.
But most of the time it does.
Claiming you're trans means nothing. If you really are, you'll see a specialist because you NEED to transition. It's no big deal to ask for a letter documenting the fact that you are, indeed, a transsexual until you can get your documentation changed.
Not that I've ever been questioned when going to the washroom, but some people obviously have been.
So how about stopping with the irrational fear-mongering?
I am absolutely NOT a misandrist. I think SJWs are stupid, that feminism is dying because it no longer meets the needs of women (or men) who don't want to see life as just a male-vs-female battle, and that political correctness sucks Stop with the stereotyping already.
Gender dysphoria is not just a replacement label - it refers to the discomfort that is the result of transsexualism, not transsexualism itself. Big difference.
You conveniently ignore that the brains of transsexuals are themselves different. That is a physical, not mental, phenomena. And as for "all the political lobbying wrt homosexuality no longer being a disorder", the reality is that there was NO proof that being gay was a mental disorder, but that it still took a lot of lobbying for crusty old farts to either admit it or die off.
The satisfaction rate of people who transition is at least 95%, and as high as 99%, so I don't get where you are getting off stating that there are "plenty of cases where people would have been better off withut transitioning". The only people still pushing these lies are religious fundamentalists, and they have their own agenda.
Doesn't replace the facts. The APA's definition of gender identity was that transsexualism was a mental disorder. Gender dysphoria, on the other hand, allows for (and pretty much mandates) that transsexualism has a physical origin, and that the RESULT is gender dysphoria - a distress about the mismatch of perceived and physical genders, same as you would have if you woke up tomorrow and some naughty bits were missing.
Also, any article that cites John Money in it's first paragraph is seriously f*ckled up. Money was found to have faked ALL of his research. The second-to-last paragraph makes reference to work published in 1966. BTW, the statement "currently, the worldwide Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association continues his work, and helps to set standards of care for the treatment of transsexuals by the medical establishment." is an outright lie - WPATH has been in charge of setting the standards of care for a LONG time.
Try to keep up, mkay?