Hi All,
After pursuing a couple of other threads, it got me thinking (always a good thing), to how the general population thinks toward Transgenderism. Taking refuge under the Transgender umbrella myself, I obviously hold empathy to our plight for acceptance.
If I can transgress for a moment. I stated on another thread, it seems; least that's how I was raised, from an early age most of us are programmed (brain washed) to believe we must pigeon hole people. And anyone who does not conform to within accepted boundaries laid out within society, these people, most times are ridiculed, mocked and generally become the butt of jokes etc...etc.
However if I slice and dice that type of doctrine up, it inevitably returns to keeping people in check, controlled. Which then fundamentally points back to a fear of something happening, if these mechanisms of labelling people are not in place or action.
While I'll admit I'm guilty of judging the cover and not the book, I've tried to become mindful of when this happens and stop that mindset in its tracks.
Ultimately though, and given my thread topic, is it the fear of the unknown which the general population hold issue to anything out of the ordinary or is it something completely different?