Carbon based lifeforms wrote:Where's the "idgaf about gender" option? Or should I just vote "other"?
Depends on if you're referring to the gender(s) you're attracted to, or the gender you identify as.
Dalcaria wrote:I'd say heterosexual male, but I feel compelled to avoid saying that as you're asking about my "gender identity". I don't associate myself with an "identity", 1. I am who I am, and I have male genitals, so I am male, but I do not see this as an "identity". Being male doesn't mean I go out and play sports, beat up other dudes, and only play COD. No, I do whatever I feel like doing, and if that means making an evil businessman in Sims 3, I'll do it, regardless of if you think it's a "girl's game". 2. So I do apologize if I've offended anyone, but I simply do not like having my gender treated as though it's either A) some choice I get to make, or B) somehow changeable. I know for some people both of these apply, but I am not one of those people, 3. and so I don't want my "gender" to be decided around a hypothesis that was more or less written around them.
4. Now, as per my feelings towards LGBT community, they can do what they want so long as it isn't in my face. 5. Also, I think a marriage should be considered legitimate if one party is transgendered and has not informed the other party, so long as the non-transgendered party actually wishes to pursue divorce in this case. If not, then obviously he or she is okay with the situation so there is no further issue. 6. For identification and such, I feel trans persons should be allowed a third gender option (T perhaps), but I personally do not approve of issuing a "male" or "female" description if they are transgendered, 7. partly because I feel like it makes it easier to hide this fact from a potential relationship partner, which I consider to be an infringement upon that person's sexuality and sexual rights. 8. Just because a trans person views them self as a different "gender" doesn't mean somebody else will, and 9. it also doesn't mean somebody else will be sexually and romantically attracted to them, so it's not fair to force that on someone who isn't interested in it.
1. Just an FYI, that's sex, not gender.
2. Except, neither are involved with the concept of gender identity.
3. Not exactly a hypothesis, much less, one that was "written around " us. I totally respect the fact that you think of yourself as a dude, but your words seem to indicate you think you're a dude because you happen to have a dick.
4. Define "in your face". And what about what you do in our faces?
5. So, you honestly think a trans person's safety should come second to other people "needing" to know whether or not the person they're with is trans? Because that's literally the only reason the trans people who aren't more open and up front about being trans is because they fear for their lives.
6. How about this?: Grant trans folks who are in the binary identification reflecting their identity, and grant those of us who aren't in the binary IDs reflecting our identities, instead of issuing a blanket "all transgender people must be considered a third gender" ID.
7. Again, its an issue of safety. Trans deception is a myth, and a harmful stereotype.
8. Well they can get the fuck over themselves. Since when did other people get to dictate who I am?
9. And yet its somehow fair to force trans people to expose themselves to even more danger than we often already are, just so somebody else can sleep soundly at night knowing they aren't dating some "tranny"? Where's our right to sleep soundly at night?
