Marco wrote:If you saw transvestites here in Argentina, you would probabably not think too different from me. There are "men" here that inject themselves car oil and some really fucked up shit to get cheap breast or curver-ass or body in general. These completely disgusting people are big STD spreaders. They are completely fucked up from bottom to top and I wouldn't even be surprised if some of these "men" would become trans just to work as prostitutes (trans are rather popular in prostitution here, and poverty is big - go figure). These people are completely baked off that it's hard to tell whether they are even concious or not.
I see conservatives in the US make the exact same arguments. That gays are bad because they do nothing but spread STDs (never mind that straight couples do that too). That gays should never adopt because a child needs a mother and a father (but being an orphan or having a single parent is totally OK).
It's funny that we have "different cultures" and yet the same exact arguments and ideas are prevalent in every continent. I'm from Russia and I hear russians say the exact same thing, though more abrasively.
Marco wrote:That aside (why am I disgusted by trans), I think you misunderstood where I was going. I never said these people were pretending or that the feeling wasn't real. What I was trying to say is that if you feel like a girl in a boy's buddy, then bad luck. Trying to change your appearance won't ever change your gender. Does that mean they have to live unhappily forever? Dunno, life isn't fair for everyone.
Changing appearance to match perceived gender actually does make transgender people feel happier. They feel like they are in the right skin, rather than trapped in the wrong body.
With that said, yes, a guy that gets his dick cut off and gets estrogen supplements isn't really a woman. You can never actually change gender, merely your appearance. Life isn't fair at all but at the least let people try to be happy.