I've always really disliked the male body in general....if u look at women's bodies they're perfect, nice boobs at the front for easy access, all the important reproductive stuff is tucked away neatly inside, then you've got the male body, meat and two veg just stuck on the front like some afterthought.
I get the impression whoever was chief designer spent far too much time perfecting the girls and had to whack the bloke together in about 15 minutes.
Anyway, back on topic, hope the Brazilians extradite Ryan Lochte, if only to see Yankspurs meltdown.
Have you seen the high suicide rates in the transgender community (both in those who go through body alteration and not)? There's clearly something wrong with most of these people, and sadly body alteration doesn't seem to be the solution.
One of the great tragedies of this generation is that we're basically letting these people commit self genocide simply because we're too afraid of hurting their feelings.
I don't think I was born in the wrong body, but I'm not all that chuffed with the one I've got now![/QUOTE
The only comments I've seen as transphobic on here (and there's not many of them) are the ones that deny that someone like Caster Semenya can call themselves 'she'. You can call it a PC buzzword if you like; in reality it's just a word which maybe isn't used regularly but should be easily understandable in the same way that we all now know what homophobia is and rightly call it out when we see it.
I also know that many people don't necessarily understand the issues and I've got no problem discussing this with them without chucking terms about but the core of this is that you and I have no right to state that any transgender or intersex person is necessarily a 'he' or 'she'. That has to be their right to identify themselves how they want based on the gender they feel they are.
I agree with @Shanks post just above to a certain extent - these people are quite literally messed up. Not because of mental illness but because their bodies and their brains don't match, either because they've been born one sex and feel they should be another (in the case of transgender people) or because they haven't been born completely as one sex or the other (intersex people).
The reason I responded to @MaccSpurs in the way I did is because he knows that Semenya identifies as a woman, that she doesn't have male sexual organs and that it would be offensive to her to be called a man and he still choose to do it. I called it transphobic but you could just say it was rude and disrepectful.
Actually, I've got no issue with the view that Semenya shouldn't be running in women's races, not though because she's intersex or not a woman but because her testosterone levels are so high. (In fact, many intersex people don't have as high testosterone levels as Semenya and some that do find their bodies don't actually make use of the extra). If she could bring those down medically there wouldn't be an issue. (For information though, they're nowhere near as high as those for an average man).
To the gym with you fatty
I've always really disliked the male body in general....if u look at women's bodies they're perfect, nice boobs at the front for easy access, all the important reproductive stuff is tucked away neatly inside, then you've got the male body, meat and two veg just stuck on the front like some afterthought.
I get the impression whoever was chief designer spent far too much time perfecting the girls and had to whack the bloke together in about 15 minutes.
Anyway, back on topic, hope the Brazilians extradite Ryan Lochte, if only to see Yankspurs meltdown.
There are also a lot of issues that trans people go through include rejection from family and friends, social isolation and issues as they generally have had to suppress what they feel due to social stigma. Gender dysphoria isn't a mental illness.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/Pages/Introduction.aspx
These paralympians are putting me to shame, im such a lazy fuck.
Have to say @Gbspurs I;m trying to figure out if I'm transphobic here... I suspect I may be just a bit.
If we are talking about people who change their gender, then I don't really agree with it at all, but thats probably down to me being ingnorant on the matter.