The price of being different-Ohio transgender teen's suicide note: 'Fix society. Please.'

Is that what I said? I said that gender dysphora was a mental disorder, and it is.

 

If it blamed Obama, bigtexxx would've started a thread about it already and you and the rest of the posse of superiority would be all over it and suddenly giving a damn.

 

I did earlier, I think it's scummy that they would seek to exploit the suicide of a mentally ill little boy.

 

I can get behind the removal of it from the DSM because it's really just a sexual preference. I could see an argument for it being a disorder because it's an evolutionary dead-end, but that makes an assumption that humans ought to want to breed and further the species. I don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other about it honestly. I think they showed up with a solid enough case to have it removed, so it was removed.

 

Individuals who don't know what gender they are, or seek to mutilate their genitals in an effort to realize a delusion that they are a different gender isn't exactly the same situation as someone who prefers to have sex with a member of the same sex....that should be pretty clear and easy to see.

It being a mental disorder doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it per se, there are all manner of mental ill people who have what would be considered odd lifestyles by some, but there's no reason to deny the obvious. Simply because their disorder doesn't hurt anyone doesn't mean it's not a disorder and it doesn't mean that they can't need help dealing with it. If you deny that it's a mental disorder, they'd struggle to get treatment for it....is that what we really want? People who have gender dysphoria often already have tough enough lives as it is, why make it tougher by making it that much more difficult to seek help if they feel they need it?

Someone having a disorder doesn't mean they are a freak or anything like that, it's just something they have to deal with that the average person does not.

 

auto correct is killing me tonight.

 

Northside Storm getting schooled by Bobbythegreat.

 

I have a former coworker/friend who is transgender. He was/is a happily married man who just happened to be identified with women more than men. When I first met him, he just seemed a little feminine and enjoyed dressing up in drag for things like Halloween. He would make dresses and things like that. Last year, he announced to everyone that he was going to live life as a full-time women with the support of his spouse. I imagined she knew all along because they are very close couple. They are still together and recently had to get remarried as a lesbian couple in New York.

 

This sounds like a very positive outcome. I am a liberal thinker who believes in "Chacun à son goût". I wish Northside Storm an equally happy outcome. Fingers crossed!

 

I am not religious, and I find it ironic and hypocritical that it is the most religious people that have a problem with transgenders and gays. If you believe God is omnipotent and all knowing, then why do they think God made a mistake my making people this way. Religious people should be the most accepting, but unfortunately it is not the case.

 

I agree with you.

 

Affirmed.