Transgender people....

[jillian]

Do you know any personally?

What have you learned about them and yourself in relating to them as sooo dramatically different from you?

yes.

learned? the same things you learn from others individually..... some nothing, some good things and some ... meh.

like everyone else.

Agreed. They are just like everyone and deserve a fair shake in life. They don't start out with one, but they can have a good life, nonetheless.

a huge percentage of transgendered teens attempt suicide because of the bullying and harassment they receive at the hands of their neighbors, school mates and families.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Note the part..."extremely damaging, especially to young people".....you all really need to cease promoting this garbage

Dr. McHugh, who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery – and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging, especially to young people.

Read more at “Transgenders are Impersonators, Counterfeits” – Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University |

 

[jillian]

I met my first trans person as a Career Counselor at a Business College. "She" came to me looking for a job. I thought to myself, "you have got to be kidding me". I was very uncomfortable and this transwoman did not look like a woman at all.

When a trans gets to take hormones early enough she/he is able to pass and live as his/her preferred gender easily.

If I can change my attitude, everyone else ought to be able to do so too.

if you know about transgendered people, *she* shouldn't be in quotemarks.

I was trying to reflect the intolerant attitude I had 25 years ago.

ok.

 

[Dhara]

Do you know any personally?

What have you learned about them and yourself in relating to them as sooo dramatically different from you?

yes.

learned? the same things you learn from others individually..... some nothing, some good things and some ... meh.

like everyone else.

Agreed. They are just like everyone and deserve a fair shake in life. They don't start out with one, but they can have a good life, nonetheless.

a huge percentage of transgendered teens attempt suicide because of the bullying and harassment they receive at the hands of their neighbors, school mates and families.

Agreed. I happen to be parenting one, myself. He started an LGBT and Allies Support Group at our local HS. He is very popular, and well liked by students and staff. AND he's very political. Writes letters, visits Senators.

I'm proud of him.

 

[pillars]

Do you know any personally?

What have you learned about them and yourself in relating to them as sooo dramatically different from you?

I've met/known several trans people. I don't consider them dramatically different from me.

 

[jillian]

Note the part..."extremely damaging, especially to young people".....you all really need to cease promoting this garbage

Dr. McHugh, who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery – and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging, especially to young people.

Read more at “Transgenders are Impersonators, Counterfeits” – Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University |

awww.... the rightwingnut bigots' messiah.....

[McHugh's] approach to transgender support — and his general antipathy to the entire LGBT community — has already been widely debunked. For example, he regularly claims that surgery does not support the mental health of transgender people, but he does so by citing a study comparing people who had surgery to people who weren’t even transgender. He also claims that transgender people are simply persuaded by culture that changing their body will solve their other psycho-social problems, which ignores the fact that many transgender people never undergo such surgeries.

For this to even make sense, McHugh must ignore the notion that people who are transgender have psycho-social problems not because they are transgender, but because of how they are tormented by society because they are transgender. A large 2011 study found that transgender people are subject to rampant discrimination, poverty, harassment, and violence because they are transgender. A new study from Canada similarly found high rates of suicide attempts among transgender people, but specifically found that those suicide attempt rates significantly declined when trans people were supported by their parents, when they were able to update their legal documents to match their gender, when they endured less trans-based hate, and when they were able to transition their bodies to match their identities. In other words, McHugh has it totally backwards; it is affirming transgender people’s gender identities and supporting their traditions that helps them do best in society.

And of course, that’s what mainstream medicine says too. That’s why the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in no way resembles or reflects any of McHugh’s assertions. The WPATH standards of care guide medical professionals across the globe as they help transgender people through their transitions.

For social conservatives, however, Paul McHugh represents a distinguished “medical professional.” “He’s a giant,” Anderson boasts. Even though he is one of the only doctors willing to endorse their rejection of transgender people, they still take his word over the consensus of doctors who have helped thousands of transgender people live happier, healthier lives.

Meet The Doctor Social Conservatives Depend On To Justify Anti-Transgender Hate

 

[Sunni Man]

They are just like everyone and deserve a fair shake in life. They don't start out with one, but they can have a good life, nonetheless.

Transgenders "chose" their perverted disease ridden lifestyle.

Just like rapists chose to rape or murders chose to murder people.

Which makes it kinda hard to feel any sympathy towards them. .......

 

[JoeMoma]

Lots of good people suffer from a variety of mental illness. Do we really help them by becoming enablers to their delusions?

 

[Dhara]

They are just like everyone and deserve a fair shake in life. They don't start out with one, but they can have a good life, nonetheless.

Transgenders "chose" their perverted disease ridden lifestyle.

Just like rapists chose to rape or murders chose to murder people.

Which makes it kinda hard to feel any sympathy towards them. .......

Thank god you're retired and no longer serving in a capacity to hurt people. Go move to Saudi Arabia and throw someone off the roof.

 

[jillian]

Lots of good people suffer from a variety of mental illness. Do we really help them by becoming enablers to their delusions?

it's not considered a mental illness and it isn't curable.

so the answer is .... it doesn't affect you.

why would you give a rat's patoot, other than to enable bigots?

 

[Sunni Man]

a huge percentage of transgendered teens attempt suicide because of the bullying and harassment they receive at the hands of their neighbors, school mates and families.

Sounds like a "Win - Win" for everyone. ......

 

[Dhara]

I think we should cure your depravity. but getting rid of your hatred is probably impossible at this point.

I don't have any hatred towards transgenders.

They are just mentally ill and should be treated as such. .......

LIAR.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Note the part..."extremely damaging, especially to young people".....you all really need to cease promoting this garbage

Dr. McHugh, who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery – and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging, especially to young people.

Read more at “Transgenders are Impersonators, Counterfeits” – Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University |

awww.... the rightwingnut bigots' messiah.....

[McHugh's] approach to transgender support — and his general antipathy to the entire LGBT community — has already been widely debunked. For example, he regularly claims that surgery does not support the mental health of transgender people, but he does so by citing a study comparing people who had surgery to people who weren’t even transgender. He also claims that transgender people are simply persuaded by culture that changing their body will solve their other psycho-social problems, which ignores the fact that many transgender people never undergo such surgeries.

For this to even make sense, McHugh must ignore the notion that people who are transgender have psycho-social problems not because they are transgender, but because of how they are tormented by society because they are transgender. A large 2011 study found that transgender people are subject to rampant discrimination, poverty, harassment, and violence because they are transgender. A new study from Canada similarly found high rates of suicide attempts among transgender people, but specifically found that those suicide attempt rates significantly declined when trans people were supported by their parents, when they were able to update their legal documents to match their gender, when they endured less trans-based hate, and when they were able to transition their bodies to match their identities. In other words, McHugh has it totally backwards; it is affirming transgender people’s gender identities and supporting their traditions that helps them do best in society.

And of course, that’s what mainstream medicine says too. That’s why the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in no way resembles or reflects any of McHugh’s assertions. The WPATH standards of care guide medical professionals across the globe as they help transgender people through their transitions.

For social conservatives, however, Paul McHugh represents a distinguished “medical professional.” “He’s a giant,” Anderson boasts. Even though he is one of the only doctors willing to endorse their rejection of transgender people, they still take his word over the consensus of doctors who have helped thousands of transgender people live happier, healthier lives.

Meet The Doctor Social Conservatives Depend On To Justify Anti-Transgender Hate

Don't you have some fake lawyer tasks to do? Maybe go over a fake brief? Do you even know what a brief is?

 

[Dhara]

a huge percentage of transgendered teens attempt suicide because of the bullying and harassment they receive at the hands of their neighbors, school mates and families.

Sounds like a "Win - Win" for everyone. ......

You have got to be the cruelest person on this board. God help you.

 

[Sunni Man]

LIAR.

Calm down!!.......Buddha wouldn't be happy with you right now. .......

 

[Dhara]

You are the cruelest person on this forum. In a class all on your own. I usually defend Muslims but YOU Sunni Man, make me hate them.

 

[Sunni Man]

You are the cruelest person on this forum. In a class all on your own. I usually defend Muslims but YOU Sunni Man, make me hate them.

That's your problem.....not mine. ......

 

[SassyIrishLass]

You are the cruelest person on this forum. In a class all on your own. I usually defend Muslims but YOU Sunni Man, make me hate them.

That's your problem.....not mine. ......

You might be the only Muslim I like Sunni LOL, well Dani if he is Muslim also

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

I've known a few and have nothing bad to say about them. It is their life and their personal choice. If they start when they are young they can pass as a woman but those that start later in age can not.

 

[Sunni Man]

I've known a few and have nothing bad to say about them. It is their life and their personal choice. If they start when they are young they can pass as a woman but those that start later in age can not.

It's most likely the facial and chest hair that gives them away. ......