For the Trans Ignorant

     I started to write this on Facebook, but it was late at the time and I was tired so, instead, I put it off for another time.  In the interim, I decided that it would be a good post for this blog.

    I don't know about all of my trans brothers and sisters (although, I'm sure I can make a good guess), but I am so tired of seeing and hearing all the anti-trans propaganda on social media and elsewhere.  I'm sure this blog post won't make it onto enough of the computer or phone screens of supposed Right wing intellectuals to do any good, but at least I'll have had my say.  Who knows?  Maybe it will eventually make it onto the screens of some of the Right wing talking heads with their vlogs, blogs, podcasts and radio shows, and they'll learn something they had no idea about before.  For the most part, I think they'd be more likely glance at it, scoff, and pass it off without giving the courtesy of reading it.  Most of these people don't want to learn that they've been wrong.  It's part of human nature to believe that what we take for knowledge is the absolute truth.  Now, I believe that there's an absolute truth, but I don't believe that the vast store human ideologies contains an ounce of absolute truth.  We often learn something only to learn that what we learned before was wrong!  How in the hell can anybody with an ounce of tangible intelligence see that in science but not human evolution?  Let's look at the evolution of human psychology.  A hundred years ago, we thought we knew all there was to know about the human mind.  But, then came Sigmund Freud.  Suddenly, our eyes were opened; everything was explained!  We have since learned, however, that Freud was as full of crap as a soiled diaper.  So, why is it that the majority of the human race can't see the psychology of transgenderism?  Oh... they think they have that pegged, but, trust me, they are very much like Mr. Freud.

    So many people who like to talk crap on the trans community like to say that trans people are mentally ill.  There's actually no such mental illness according to the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization.  They do say that it and gender dysphoria are both psychological conditions.  But, you know what else is considered to be psychological conditions?  Happiness, sadness, anger, joy, etc...  In other words, it's merely a mental state of being.  And like any other mental state of being, it can affect your mood, thought patterns, actions...  Many like to point to the fact that a somewhat high percentage of trans people commit suicide.  They say, "see?  That proves that they're mentally ill."  In fact, suicide is not a sign of mental illness, as once thought.  It's more closely related to overwhelming anguish.  The same sort of anguish a young school child would feel when being relentlessly bullied.  That's exactly how I see those of you who harangue trans folk.  In that light, anyone who has bullied a trans person, who then commits suicide, their death is actually on you.  It may or may not go that way in a court of law, but it damned well should.

    I've heard Right wing extremists say that there is a trans agenda to destroy womanhood and what it means to be a woman.  They claimed that we have a war on women.  Those who make such a claim are either dishonest, lazy or stupid.  Just a little bit of research would turn up enough information about transgenders to prove this claim to be false.  So, either they know what the truth is and choose to spread disinformation (lie), or they're either too lazy, or too stupid to do their research.  If they had done their research, the first thing they should learn is that the trans community has no wish to cause harm or destruction to anyone or anything.  It's more about being at peace with oneself.  The second thing they should learn is that there are quite a lot of trans men.  That's right... biological females with a masculine gender.  In fact, in the U.S., trans men make up approximately 35.9% of the trans population.  The ratio of trans men to trans women is approximately 1:1.07.  Trans women account for around 38.5% of the trans population.  That leaves 25.6%, which consists of non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals.  These percentages completely negate the claim that the trans agenda is to destroy womanhood.  Many cisgender women are okay with trans women and don't feel at all threatened.  I think they're more confused by us than threatened.  I've noticed, however, that cisgender men are much more likely to feel threatened by trans women.  That begs the question:  "How are you threatened by trans women, guys?"  Personally, I believe you worry that you might one day find yourselves attracted to a trans woman, and that threatens your precious, fragile manhood.

    In any case, folks, the transgender community is here to stay.  We aren't going anywhere, no matter what the politicians try to do to get rid of us.  Something you don't seem to realize... and something your revered talking heads aren't talking about... is that the wheel of time continues to turn, and as it does it will bring about change in our favor; at which point, you'll have no choice but to accept us and leave us the hell alone!