Don't deprecate yourself. One can only know by learning, we were all ignorant of this and then some at some point lolWhat I don't get is (admittedly this will sound a bit cruel) trans people who seem far to much like their original gender, like when someone becomes a woman yet still has a really manly voice and manly mannerisms rather than acting really feminine (but dress as a woman) and I am thinking am more feminine than you and am a guy.
The DSM lists it as a condition, so inherently, it's classified as a mental disorder, but people are starting to move away from the whole "disorder" thing, as evidenced by them changing the formal diagnosis from gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria.Yes. It's essentially a mental disorder whereby one has the 'brain chemistry' of the opposite sex, or which doesn't correlate to either sex. To appreciate that, one may need to first understand that normal men and women are genetically predisposed to prefer things beffiting their sexes, even in the absence of any cultural reinforcement (ie. culture is the result of how we are, not vice versa). If the physical sex and imprinted gender don't match up, then there you go, that's a transgender person.
I'm fairly sure this is an adequate summary but I'd welcome any corrections.
The oppression towards these people is really limited to cunts and assholes nowadays, at least in the US. Only people who are either especially stupid or enjoy hurting others exhibit any of these talks in my opinion. And that's a minority of people.Being a gay person, you sort of get the "cry-wolf" stigma. Thus, the common narrative that being gay is made-up, a fable, and used as some way of getting leverage or attention to break down the infrastructure of traditional values. (The stupid part is that by rejecting gays, it cause gays and straight allies to reject traditions)
With trans people, I assume that no one would go through the harassment and judgement of being transgender without there being a legitimate reason (gender dysmorphia).
I understand. Medical terminology is constantly going through a euphemism treadmill; I can't very well remember what's current, so thanks for saying.The DSM lists it as a condition, so inherently, it's classified as a mental disorder, but people are starting to move away from the whole "disorder" thing, as evidenced by them changing the formal diagnosis from gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria.
Also, I mean it doesn't bother me much, but I know referring to cissexual people as "normal" is a little bit ehh. I can understand giving labels to everyone isn't entirely necessary, but from the whole "disorder" thing to being "different", some people take that to heart (due purely to the stigmas, not that these are inherently bad things).