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Originally Posted by Vicky.

I bloody hope so. Used to enjoy this section so much, I really hope people continue in the spirit I intended this to be in and be respectful, but honest about what they think.


Hmm. Again this shocks me as it seems you agree with my view on the following..I will ask anyway. I expected this part to go down like a lead balloon...

Do you believe, the more we work to remove stereotypes...eg the more guys go out in dresses and do not GAF about it and such, the more we move away from the stupid notions of women are soft and emotional while men never cry and such...we will see less cases of people thinking they are trans?

In a roundabout way, yeah.

If you allow people to self identify and determine their own gender (which anybody can do when you think about it) without mocking them or seeing them as abnormal, and without insisting that biological sex is the be all and end all of one's identity, then the need to 'transition' so to speak is diminished. The reason some trans people feel compelled to have surgery is because there's a societal belief that that's the only way you can be a true 'man' or 'woman'.

There would still always be people who want sex reassignment surgery either for the same reasons or perhaps even because they just want different genitalia, but I definitely think it would help. It needs to be a cultural shift in attitudes.

We don't need labels and we don't need complex issues to be categorised to make sense of them. This societal obsession with the gender binary is actually quite damaging but also really pointless. Why do we actually need separate toilets? Why do we need to create toys or indeed certain items of clothing specifically for boys/girls/men/women? Most of these things are totally unnecessary and yet people lap them up because it's the only way they know how, they are the product of their environment and have been socialised to believe this is the only way and that it's almost natural. It isn't. Humans created this