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RE: THIS IS NOT MY BODY !!
I agree with you that having the freedom to express yourself, and to be fully accepted, is wonderful. Everybody is entitled to that, whether homosexual, heterosexual, hermaphrodite, bisexual, transgender, transvestite or something different.
I support equality for all, not one group favoured over another. I also support a person's right to explore different parts of their gender identity / sexuality at different times, and change their minds about how they identify. I've seen people attacked on Steemit, because they're not the "right" kind of transgender. That to me is very sad. (I know that's not what you're saying; I'm just explaining my position a little more clearly.)
These last three months have been wonderful, it's like going out for the first time, here everything is different to what I had lived in Venezuela, here things are differently outlined. The cultural change has been surprising and enriching.
YOu say you support it and yet you make sure to call her a him! So n you really do not support the rights of all. You only support them if they fit your box! Fact is that most grown up trans people will tell you that they knew from very early childhood that they were trans and they suffered horribly having people tell them they were not! And yes there are the occasional crazy parents that push an agenda but you have crazy people who push crazy religions on kinds and other stuff as well! This makes trans kids no more or no less real ! and yes you also have the occasional child who changes their mind but most do not, and yet so many of you people hang on the minority ignoring the vast majority as if your life depended on it! Puberty blockers are there to give a child time to make sure but it will not kill you or anyone else to allow a child to live in the gender they need to express it might however kill the child if you do not. So stop being a bigot ...
I typed quite a long reply to you, and then realised this is a discussion that needs to be had a bit more widely. So I'll turn what I wrote into a post and drop the link here in a day or two. But in short, calling each other names doesn't open up any kind of discussion or understanding. I have no interest in putting other people down. If I spend my time discussing something, I want it to be in an open minded way that increases communication. I hope we can do that, it will just be a little later.
I'm sorry, I'm new to these issues, I just wanted to comment on a recent experience that I consider enriching.
I think @tygertyger was replying to me not you, so is criticising my replies not your post, so no need for you to be sorry
https://steemit.com/lgbt/@kiwideb/let-s-see-if-we-can-discuss-transgender-issues-without-name-calling-i-think-we-can