Trans-Agist

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(12-15-2015, 07:27 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Wait...

How is some guy that thinks he's a girl any different than the guy who thinks he's a 6 year old girl?
Is it because the guy who thinks he's a girl is socially accepted?

I'm not talking about homosexuality either, that's different in my opinion since a man or woman finds the same sex as attractive...I think that's all there is anyway.

I just don't see a difference yet, that's all. In my mind you can't say one is mental while the other isn't.

Gender is a construct of society. We decided that the sexes should each act a certain way, dress a certain way, look a certain way, and perform different roles in society. Some of that has to do with how males and females tend to act and others have to do with cultural traditions. Almost all people are wired to relate to one set of roles over another. Sometimes, the one you are wired to relate to more does not correspond with how society says your sex should behave. You can have sexual reassignment surgery, but trans people understand that they will always be either "XX" or "XY" no matter how they act. They're not delusional.

Age is something we have no control over. I am 28 and I will never be 20 again. Every second I am getting older. I am a minute older now than I was when I started typing this post. I can "act" younger based on how society says each age group should act, so we see a similarity appear, but society has always allowed for more fluidity in what constitutes how an age should act. We encourage the elderly to be active and act "younger", especially with life expectancies increasing. But we understand that age is something we cannot actually change. You can be a 68 year old who still goes to rock concerts like a 30 year old, but you are 68. Your actual age is not a social construct (unless we want to get in a philosophical debate here, but no matter how we measure time, you are incapable of being younger). If you're a 40 year old who acts like a 6 year old, you're 40. You're not 6 and you never can be 6. If you believe you are 6, you are delusional.