We all want to understand. We want to understand who a person is. We want to understand who we are. And in this forum we are all different, we know that much. If we were all the same it would be at best boring. But why do we insist on separating ourselves from each other even more?
No you are who you are but when you need something to describe who you are for rights and legislation and academia you are a part of a group. It looks here like some people who say they don't like labels actually latch on to a label. A more specific label like "I am a TS! not a CD!" but then say don't label me.Originally Posted by Kaitlyn Michele
There is? This is the ultimate in labeling and borders on elitism. It gets back to the "us" vs "them" again. It sin't a battle. It isn't a class war but somehow it always gets back to that. Somewhere along the line someone here starts the "you can't possibly understand what I am going through because YOU are not one of me." We are all in the same boat here and if we don't start rowing together we will die of starvation. This is a continuum not a linear progression. We don't all "evolve" into getting surgery and finishing our lives living as women. But we are all in that "boat" of being able to get jobs, keep jobs, get housing, even, yes dare I say it, use the restroom. Let's get off the I am something YOU can never understand. I will never be a lot of things but that does not mean I don't work to understand those things.
The word transgenderism (be it noun, verb, adjective whatever) is the current term that will help define people who fall under the gender dysphoria group. If you are post-op TS and you are a woman...great. If you are a TS no matter what physical surgery you may or may not have you are transgender(ed) and if you want the rights that ENDA and other laws are going to provide (hopefully) you will have to accept that.
Be specific about who you are. Ok. But also be assured that that specificity is a part of a broader group. Can you imagine where civil rights would be now if each individual ethnicity decided they didn't want to part of the larger group?
Enough TS vs CD stuff OK? Especially when we don't even have the same definitions of what each of those are. We are one group
No it isn't. And you make that point in your post later. But yes we are all together.
