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midwestanon
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Date: August 02, 2016 11:53PM
I understand the concept of perception. Unfortunately, our society is not blind, in any sense. I agree with you, and the points you made. I made the same ones.
No matter how hard we try, we can't live blindly, with regard to the way we treat people, interact with them, or the opinions we form of them. Our opinions are always colored by our experiences.
Most human problems are based in perceptions, in differences. That's fairly obvious. I don't know why the idea of someone who feels inside like one gender but is physically another is so offensive to some people's sensibilities. It is a real scientifically proven fact, so it makes no sense to deny it, but people do, just like they deny other scientific realities that don't mesh with their sensibilities.
Gender and sex are just extra-taboo, I suppose. I really don't know what about transgender issues that gets people so riled up. It seems like the prejudice and danger that these people face, especially among certain groups of people, is very real, and very common.
http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/ncavp_transhvfactsheet.pdfIn 2013, 72 percent of the hate crime-related murders were committed against transgendered women. The pdf I linked to gave statistics, (alarming ones) but not reasons.
I can only guess. Why people hate the things they hate it something I spend probably too much time brooding about. I'm sure it has a lot to do with being the only exmormon in a house full of mormons; in a family full of mormons. People who choose to be willfully ignorant about a wide variety of issues, and thus favor morg positions that result in various prejudices against a variety of groups of people, is something that often makes me deeply uncomfortable. I can tell you that my dad, a doctor, is probably aware of the science (even if just the rudimentary parts) behind why homosexuality and being trans are, you know, real, that they are 'nature', not nurture; that being gay or being a man trapped in a woman's body (or vice-versa) is not some liberal scheme to promote perverse agendas, but something that has been proven through science. He knows this, and I know he knows it, but he chooses to put these things he knows on the shelf in order to be commensurate with the teaching of TSCC.
It's an awful thing. I'm sure a lot of people here have similar experiences.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2016 11:57PM by midwestanon.