[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Absolutely, until taboo subjects and minority rights are discussed openly and widely in the public domain nothing can progress, no one can be enlightened or educated. My main opposition to these kind of topics just comes from bad experience, there was a period this forum went through where civilised discussions were out of the window and it was just full of dismissive, patronising, passive aggressive and downright insulting posts and it was all just completely miserable. Hence why I've not liked discussions like these being started ever since, but hey maybe things have changed now

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.

Originally Posted by Jack_

No I agree, it is less about mental illness and more about societal pressure to conform to a binary and the false notion that your sex is your true marker of your identity when it isn't, it's your gender.

What needs to happen is we need as a society to stop peddling this idea that to be a true 'woman' or 'man' you need to have sex reassignment surgery. It's unnecessarily damaging to so many people and it's an operation of which the effects are going to be seen by very little people.

Do I think people should be allowed to go through with transitioning and surgery if they so choose? Of course, but I'd much rather we tried to establish a society free of pointless binaries and categories and just allowed people to dress, act and self define how they wish without being mocked or told they need to conform to some particular ideal

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?