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tlcoopi7
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 Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: ABC's 20/20 special on transgendered kids |
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Today, I watched the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) show 20/20 and it dealt with transgendered kids. In the program, it mentioned about three kids (Jazz-MTF, Riley-MTF, and Jeremy-FTM) and the struggles that they went through. When I watched it, it does remind me that society has a hard time accepting people that are different, whatever they have a disabilty, brain works differently, or being born in the wrong body. I want to post this because there are other groups of people that are not being accepted as who they are.
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Belfast
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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I watched second half of it-and despite having different differences from those portrayed-I could relate to their situation, dealing with the sort of reception & reaction that others were having.
Could easily imagine "ASD" being substituted for "gender mismatch" in the pontification & analysis of these "non-mainstream" or "unusual" people. Same thing happens when I watch/read about all manner of "differences", even if I don't have those particular differences.
I don't necessarily need to be able to understand someone's personal variance to have sympathy or compassion for being in that position (and being upset at the idiotic, heartless bad reactions that many people seem to have towards groups other than their own).
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slowmutant
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| How to prove that someone was bon in the wrong body? Isn't it more like they were born with brain and body in disagreement? The root of transsexualism is brain-based, is it not? I mean, could you say the same thing about a person born with MS or CP? Their bodies are "wrong" in the sense that they don't do what they're supposed, are not as they should be, etc. I would suggest that transpeople actually suffer from a neurological rather than anatomical defect. |
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| slowmutant wrote: | | How to prove that someone was bon in the wrong body? Isn't it more like they were born with brain and body in disagreement? The root of transsexualism is brain-based, is it not? I mean, could you say the same thing about a person born with MS or CP? Their bodies are "wrong" in the sense that they don't do what they're supposed, are not as they should be, etc. I would suggest that transpeople actually suffer from a neurological rather than anatomical defect. |
yeah, but you can't change the brain as (relatively) easy as changing the body.
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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This is true.
Although it does not negate certain neurosurgical possibilities. |
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| slowmutant wrote: | This is true.
Although it does not negate certain neurosurgical possibilities. |
wow, do they have surgical 'cures' for AS?? other than a pre frontal lobotomy, of course |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Not yet, but they might develop a surgical technique to counteract autism, if only at the level of symptomology. Somehow I don't think it will be as crude as lobotomy or trepanning.  |
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| slowmutant wrote: | | Not yet, but they might develop a surgical technique to counteract autism, if only at the level of symptomology. Somehow I don't think it will be as crude as lobotomy or trepanning. |
or simple abortion, once they can check the genes.
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Merle, I can taste your bitterness from here. |
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sinsboldly
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| slowmutant wrote: | | Merle, I can taste your bitterness from here. |
you should taste my shrimp scampi on angel hair pasta with fresh basil!
heaven!
Merle |
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