Note: I do not (or at least try not to, considering my background) discriminate for any reason.
I had a good friend my freshman-sophomore year who was a homosexual girl.
Now she claims to be male. She changed her name on facebook to a boy's name that sounds similar to her female name, and her statuses include "_____ is getting his fingernails painted rainbow colors."
This confuses me.
I asked her about it and said that because she has a vagina, she is.. well... a girl.
WELLLLL after that, a lot of her friends called me homophobic and ignorant.
I thought I had a valid point.
Apparently gender is no longer defined as WHAT YOU ARE, it's what you FEEL you are.
Let me explain.
FACT: I have a vagina.
FACT: There have been many times in my life when I wished I had a penis, like when I've really had to pee and there wasn't any sort of restroom in sight.
FACT?: Because I have a vagina, I'm classified as female, regardless of my wishes.
Is gender definied by birth-given sexual organs, or by sexual preference?
Obviously, if a person sexually prefers the opposite sex, they are heterosexual.
Same sex, homosexual.
Both opposite and same equally, bisexual.
Okay.
So what's wrong with being a homosexual female?
By calling herself a heterosexual male, she is LYING... unless she had some sex-change I was unaware of.
At birth, doctors label the child as male or female depending on what sexual organ they have between their legs: a penis or a vagina.
Why does this change when the child grows up and just... FEELS like they're the other sex.
Never in my life have I FELT like I had a penis, despite wishes for one. I'm pretty sure it's impossible for me because I don't have flesh dangling between my legs.
In the same token, I don't believe that if I were a male, I would ever feel like a female because I would always have flesh dangling between my legs.
Unless I got a sex-change.
My point is this: if you have male sex organs, you are a male; if you have female sex organs, you are a female.
Why do people make this more complicated?
Sexual preference may affect decisions for a sex-change, but it does not DIRECTLY affect sexual organs, because as humans, our bodies do not morph, even if we wish they would.
(I wish they would because I would look a lot different.)
Does this not make sense to anyone besides me?
Biologically, the argument stands.
ReplyDeleteSocially or mentally, I get where "he" is coming from. It's a commonly accepted belief now that some people just feel that they are a male born into a female's body.
Perhaps he's looking into surgery in the future, perhaps not (if not, then labels REALLY get confusing).
He wasn't at the time, but from what I've been told, he's made the total changeover... and I honestly could not be happier for him. There's nothing like feeling comfortable in your own skin.
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