Originally Posted by fox_drifter
Jesus Christ. I stopped reading this thread on page 5, but in the spirit of it, I'll go ahead and post some personal opinions regardless of how on topic they are.
Live and let live. Not everyone likes TG people. Not everyone likes blondes. Not everyone likes people that read, I don't know, science fiction. Some of this sucks. You might be a blonde. You might be a blonde that *really likes* that guy that doesn't like blondes.
Well, you can go and try and convince him to look past your being blonde or you can find someone else.
I get *exceptionally* tired of hearing the word 'homophobia' bandied about. By some peoples' definition in here, you'd think I were homophobic simply for not wanting to have sex with a man! Put some limits on these things, people! If a guy is turned off by finding out his girlfriend's man-hands come from, in fact, having once been a man, it does not actually make him homophobic! There is a very grounded (and large, notably) group of people that believe one's gender is what comes from the DNA you get at birth, and nothing else (genetic aberrations aside, which I feel everyone can agree are special and rare cases). Assuming they are not lunging at the TG community with knives, let them be heterosexual! And that includes not telling them they're afraid of being *homosexual* simply because they don't want to have sex with what is, to their mind, their own gender!
I find it hugely ironic that many of the TG folks I know find the entire basis of their transition in the flexibility of their gender identity versus their sex, changing their physical form to what they feel is correct psychologically; because they believe (keyword there, 'believe'--isn't what one believes all that matters in this?) gender is not determined by sex alone, they transform themselves! And yet to many here, the idea that someone believes differently, that gender *is* defined by sex, is so abhorrent that they can only fall to violently insulting those with opposing views--people on this forum, who are, in fact, *not* lunging at said TG'd community with knives.
Some of us crazy internet loonies like people transforming into giant werewolves. Some of us like women with dicks and four-foot tongues and every other kind of weirdness. This TG business actually transfers into reality and I understand that. But like the others, it *is* a matter of preference when it comes to lust and love. So please. Live and let live.
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