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Quote From: x15gal

Sorry to burst your bubble here, but being transgender is not a choice. We only can choose to either deal with it or choose to not deal with it. The cards were dealt for us before we were born.

I have never met one trans person who has said,  'You know, this is a really cool idea, I think I'm going to decide to be transgender today. Look at all the lovely pain and suffering that comes with it, not to mention the bigotry and discrimination.' Boy, that sure sounds like a fun life to live, doesn't it?

To say things like that is not wisdom, but is instead pure ignorance of the highest order. So, no, in my opinion, you do not have wisdom. People have to listen and learn in life to achieve wisdom. You have shown you wish to do neither.

Yes, a transgender person may choose how they wish to deal with their situation, but being born this way is not a choice in the first place, any more than any other birth difference is, such as blindness, cleft palate, mental challenges. These are all things that children have had to deal with, and a lot more. Why is being transgender all of a sudden not allowable in your universe, yet any other problem that would be considered a birth defect would be? Would you turn a child out on the streets, alone and with nothing in the world, if they were born with no eyesight? 'Of course not,' you would say. Unfortunately this does happens every day with transgender kids. And don't say it doesn't because I know some personally that it has happened to.

Let's talk about the actual choices that a trans person has to deal with. We can choose to do nothing about our condition. In this case, the statistics show that there is a better than even chance we will end up dead from suicide before we make it to our 20s. But that is a choice, as would be the actual suicide from a person who was tired of living in a world so full of hatred and misunderstanding. It is your sworn ignorance in the face of so much scientific data, as well as testimony of the actual people who it has afflicted, that cause trans people to kill themselves in such great numbers. Put that onto your consciousness, right where it belongs. I hope it weighs heavily on you the next time you judge someone who you do not understand.

Gee, isn't there something in the bible about judging other people?

Now, instead of making a negative choice such as suicide, how about if a trans person finds that they can choose to transition into the gender where their brain has always belonged? Ask any transgender about this second option and I think you will find an overwhelmingly positive response over the first choice mentioned above. Which choice would you rather that the trans person made, to be happy or to remove themselves permanently from the world. Oh, wait, I probably shouldn't ask that because you will probably say that the suicide choice is the preferred one in your universe of small mindedness. You would rather eliminate anything that does not conform to your narrow view of humanity, instead of being challenged by the wide and wonderful diversity available to everyone if they would only open their minds and embrace all that we have been given.

Michelle