Re: Hannah Mouncey
Reply #66 –
I would have thought that being comfortable in your own body is part of your identity, and not through hormone therapies or plastic surgery. We have been made the way we are. We feel what are human emotions, not male or female, and no matter how much we fight against our body's biology, how we identify, is largely subjective.
They were born in the skin they were born in for a purpose. That purpose is to accept oneself and their imperfections and not simply shed one social construct for another.
FWIW, here is the definition of a male, and here is the definition of a female according to the oxford dictionary:
Male: adjective
1. Of or denoting the sex that produces gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring.
‘male children’
1.1 Relating to or characteristic of men or male animals.
‘a deep male voice’
1.2 (of a plant or flower) bearing stamens but lacking functional pistils.
1.3 (of a fitting or part of machinery) manufactured to fit inside a corresponding female part.
‘the valve has standard half-inch threaded male ends’
Female:
adjective
1. Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.
‘a herd of female deer’
1.1 Relating to or characteristic of women or female animals.
‘a female audience’
‘female names’
1.2 (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens.
1.3 (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted.
For bonus points:
Transgender: adjective
Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.
Identity:
noun
1. The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
‘he knows the identity of the bombers’
mass noun ‘she believes she is the victim of mistaken identity’
1.1 The characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is.
‘he wanted to develop a more distinctive Scottish Tory identity’
1.2 as modifier (of an object) serving to establish who the holder, owner, or wearer is by bearing their name and often other details such as a signature or photograph.
‘an identity card’
2. A close similarity or affinity.
‘an identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community’
3. Mathematics
A transformation that leaves an object unchanged.
3.1 An element of a set which, if combined with another element by a specified binary operation, leaves that element unchanged.
4.Mathematics
The equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1.
To answer your question about Hannah being my child (not my daughter), I would encourage Hannah not to travel down a road that argues with the unchangeable. Some people's unchangeable varies. Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disorder, Cancer, down syndrome, asthbergers, asthma and the one recurring theme I see in the world, is that these people only find happiness when they stop fighting against their human nature and find a way to roll with the punches. There is a liberation that comes from accepting that you cannot change the unchangeable but make the most of it and in the case of illness, fight against it until it kills you.
This transgenderism is simply another social construct.
To a degree, yes. But there are many folks who choose to fight and sometimes it is these folks who are catalysts for social change or force science to research/experiment further. We should respect the choice of the individual.
For my own part, yes, I accept I have PTSD and understand that it can't be magically waved away, but I am always on the alert for other ways to deal with it... so, yes, I 'roll with the punches' but don't surrender. Again, it's not an either/or. You can accept AND fight.
(not sure I would be putting transgenderism in with MS, MND, aspbergers (autism), cancer and the like, it aint a disease... not sure autism is either, but that's another discussion entirely).