Rant: I get really irritated!!!

[lizzo]

I get really irritated when transgendered people call themselves "female" when they're biologically a male. Even though they may identify themselves as a female, they are still men!! I get frustrated because I love being female and i'm very feminine and I dont think that a man can grow his hair long, wear a skirt and stuff a bra and call himself a woman. It's not fair. He doesn't have periods, go through menopause, childbirth, pregnancy, etc and all the other things that FEMALES endure, so why should HE be able to call himself female? Men should just call themselves men, and females should just call themselves females, UNLESS they get a sex change. I just don't think it's fair. I'm all for gay and lesbian people and i'm not close minded at all but i'm so frustrated!!

[icicledreamz]

To each their own i guess..
they claim to be "a woman stuck in a mans body"
even with a sex change they will never be a full female..
They are just more femine then masculine, i think it has alot to do with the way they were brought up..
i dont have anything agaisnt it either, a person should be able to do what they wish. I just dont get it sometimes

[laylamommy]

I think a person should be able to call themselves whatever they want to. There is a biological aspect to the whole transgendered thing. Maybe they feel more female than male...maybe they don't identify themselves with their gender. It doesn't bother me much what they call themselves. I mean...of course when I look at them (pre-op or post-op) I usually have trouble not seeing them as just female.

Whatever, my philosophy is that if someone isn't doing anything to hurt me (or anyone else) then I have no right to judge what they are doing.

I dunno...

[mxw08]

Yeah I get really confused when they haven't had a sex change, but call themselves the opposite gender. I don't know that I really care what they call themselves, I just get really confused what to call them myself. Because like you said, if they haven't had a sex change then it's still say, a man, but he wants to be called a woman? But he's a man... Weird.

I've always wondered too, how do you know that you're a (going with the man again,) man trapped in a woman's body. If you're a man, how do you know how a woman feels? How do you know it's any different? You may see yourself as different from other males, but how do you know you're not just different? I guess you could say if you're a man attracted to males, but definitely not all gay people think they were born the wrong gender. I just wonder how they "know" they're not what they were born.

[tink]

I cant imagine what it is like being a certain sex and feel like I should be another. It has to be insanely painful to begin with, but dealing with the outside world on top of that has to be doubly hard. Just think about going against everything that society has told you that you should be to make yourself happy. Then when you do make that effort, you have to deal with people staring, making comments and sometimes getting beat up or killed. Your irritation of a man calling himself a woman is nothing compared to the pain that these people have to endure day in and day out for the rest of their lives for living as they want and need to live. Think about that for a moment, maybe you wont be so irritated with something that has nothing to do with you.

--Kim