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Aye, but do these failings serve to justify any public policy regarding civil rights?
Personally? I think that civil marriage should just stay between a man and a woman and that we shouldn't fiddle around with it. Supporting otherwise is contrary to my religion anyway and I'm trying to get deeper into it and stop my dissenting ways, which just lead to confusion.
But that's contrary to how laws are made in the United States. Your reasoning is solely religious. That isn't(and shouldn't) be enough to deprive people of basic decency.
Well, that's my opinion and people have the right to support things or not based on religious beliefs or any other reason.
Question. You still transgender?
I don't call myself that and I hate that word. I have transsexualism, which is a medical condition.
****. Sorry. Legitimately forgot the difference. Goddamn it. I was going to make a point about how I could be against transsexual rights because of X reason, and that it would be as valid(and as damaging to other people) as your view on gay marriage.
No worries.
Don't kinkshame, Heather. It's rude.
Fair enough. Lol.Oh, I'm here just to get under your skin, Frank.
Its a reminder for the loud pious folks to look in the mirror first. All y'all got way too many hidden skeletons to be preaching about sexual morality to the freaks.
And I agree. But there will always be people who will say that you were born physically as a woman, and thus you are a deviant for wanting to change, and most of them will use religious reasons for it. Many will likely also want laws to keep you(transsexuals as a whole) away from children & the like, especially MtF. And that is my point.
I understand. There's also racists and I'm a mixed person. There's always going to be dumb people. In regards to trans issues, I think the political movement is hurting us all and that framing it as a matter of social theory has been a huge mistake. It should be presented to the public as a medical condition only and leave the leftist radicalism out of it. I look at the "trans icons" they uphold in the media and a lot of them are like circus freaks who make us look crazy. So I try to distance myself from them and I don't want to be lumped in with them, because they embarrass me. I dropped out of being involved with the trans community in real life, too, because there were too many weirdos involved. Most people who actually have the medical condition are quite quiet about it. (A lot of people calling themselves "transgender" aren't transsexuals and there's a lot of paraphilias and fetishes involved.) They tend to just transition and integrate into their reassigned sex quietly. That's been going on for decades. Billy Tipton is an example of that.
That's why I like the term, "trans".
This study was only of the Dutch population, and was conducted more than 14 years ago. The amount that our culture has changed in that time is astounding, and Dutch culture is very different than American culture, so, even if it was a recent study, I would argue that it would still be irrelevant.
Isn't that forbidden by the Church, though?
The Church has no official standing on it. I've already looked into it.
I'm curious.....what if the Church took a stand against it?