The thing I’d like folks to know is that when I make a good-humored joke or wish someone well and such it’s not a sneaky debate trick or veiled snipe. Since my life transformed last year the angry, bitter, vicious, “take them to the Pit and send them into the metaphorical wood chipper” vanished. I am just happy all the time. I am frustrated that I can’t seem to keep the previous debate on topic and am clearly not getting my message through, but hey, that’s OK, I’ll keep putting my case forward and see if people learn something or think about things from a different angle.
Hopefully I can learn things too, you know?
Well of course, I agree, it’s not normal. Being a transsexual is not normal in general, otherwise the occurrence wouldn’t be so infrequent. The question to ask is “is it necessary and proper in these cases?”
(And I’d hate to be normal anyhow…)
Or to recap a point above, "does it result in a net improvement in the quality of life, function, and happiness of the person, without losing anything significant?"
Earlier mention was made (paraphrasing) “chopping things off means you can’t pee standing up nor have penetrative intercourse” but I’m saying there is no net loss, correcting via the cosmetic and reconstructive surgery gives a benefit, life even, to a person who needs it. So one now sits to pee and can have receptive intercourse (not touching the issue of anal sex…no really, don’t want to touch it, lol). It’s just parts, they work the same, and aside from the ability to have children (which I doubt will ever happen via medical science, sadly), the transition surgery is pretty doggone complete.
So yes, I do make a judgment on people with BIID, because they do not gain anything other than mental satisfaction. A transsexual becomes a more complete and whole person, ironically, by losing some bits and having them formed into others. At the end of it all the the transsexual has gained in by every metric excepting money outlay and post-operative pain. Treatment of various conditions such as have been discussed lies on a spectrum - it’s unfair and illogical for one to say cutting off one body part is exactly the same as any other. I met a woman who had her earlobes trimmed the other day, the aftermath of wearing earrings which were too heavy.
Few would argue that cutting off perfectly functioning earlobes is identical to cutting off an arm, and that one can’t judge which one is more correct without being a hypocrite. Is chainsaw fighting a better sport to engage in than billiards? I judge the former to be foolhardy and stupid, and the latter to be pleasant. But a minority, hopefully quite minuscule, would choose the former as having much more merit. And some might even say the two are equivalent - each is a sport people enjoy, and as long as they don’t hurt anyone else, who are we to judge?
Funny coincidence, I did some knife fighting practice last night with my weapons master. Girl’s gotta protect herself…and work off those holiday pounds, yeesh…