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Why are transgender people treated differently than those who claim they are "transracial" or "transage"?
Hear me out. I've seen quite a few videos on people who believe they were "meant to be black" or "deep inside, they're a small child". Now obviously these could be faked for attention, and if that's the case, they certainly succeeded. But for the moment, let's assume all these claims are real issues that they're dealing with.
People who come out as transgender are usually seen as courageous, groundbreaking, etc. They have certain rights, they're a significant part of the LGBT community, and above all, if someone wants to dress as, act like, and even transition to the opposite gender, in this day and age not many people are going to stop them.
On the other hand, these transage, transracial, trans-etc people tend to be seen as weird, and many people commenting on the videos in which they were featured said something along the lines of "they need mental help". No one appeared to be encouraging their behavior. No one even said things like, "It's their body and their life, who cares what they do with it?" or "If they want to act like this, go ahead, fine by me." Pretty much everyone had negative reactions.
So the question is, assuming these are real mental issues these people are suffering from, why are so many transgender people not being looked at the same way? Why do we look upon some people with disdain while we applaud others with very similar claims for being so brave?
6 Answers
- nineteenthlyLv 73 years ago
In a sense, all of us are small children inside, so that's something which is not so much a medical condition as universal. We all have issues as adults of having difficulty coping with taking adult responsibilities for things and it's tempting and even therapeutic to do that from time to time, something we should make our peace with and not beat ourselves up about. The transracial thing only happens when someone is brought up in an environment unusual for their ethnicity, and is entirely culturally determined.
Regarding trans gender people, it amounts to one of two things. In one set of people it's merely about not wishing to be boxed in to a particular gender expression by pointless societal pressures. In the other set, it's to do with not being able to be mentally healthy with the endogenous balance of sex hormones, so it's more like hyperthyroidism causing anxiety or diabetes causing depression. It amounts to being a neurological condition.
Translating that into the trans age and trans racial thing, there is no innate difference between brains of people with different ethnicities and nothing about their internal environment which makes them different from each other, and with age, there are developmental delays, so an example of someone who is a child in an adult's body would be a person who is learning disabled. But such a person probably wouldn't express it in that way due to lacking the mental capacity to be aware of the issue.
- 3 years ago
On the trans-age thing, there are adults who are actually mentally a child. Its called an intellectual disability. My aunt is 35 but is mentally about 4. She is literally like a 4 year old and needs the same care as a 4 year old. To see these normal adults pretend to be a child is ridiculous. You cant just decide one day to be a child. If someones brain is mentally adult, they are an adult.
Gender is sort of the same in that sense. You are whatever gender your brain is. Gender has nothing to do with a persons body (their sex).
"if someone wants to dress as, act like, and even transition to the opposite gender, in this day and age not many people are going to stop them"
People can dress however they want and it actually doesn't even have much to do with gender. It shouldn't have anything to do with gender.
How do you even act like a man or act like a woman?
Nobody changes gender. They just change their bodies. Honestly its no different than fixing a cleft palate. Just something people are born with that isn't right and needs to be fixed.
- RobLv 63 years ago
You're laboring a point under the false assumption that transgender identity is a mental illness. Gender dysphoria is not classed as a mental illness because it is simply the stress that a person experiences due to the underlying condition. That underlying condition can often be seen as more of a kind of intersex. Believe it or not the human brain biologically develops instinctive traits that are factors of a person's gender, it's not just psychosocial factors. When fetal development goes wrong such as the case of hormonal imbalance in the womb, this can alter the way the brain develops. There is even strong evidence that hormonal treatment doctors give to prevent miscarriages can increase the risk of the child being born transgender. Granted there could be the case of an identity crisis that stems just from psychological issues which would be approaching the same sort of bracket as those other disorders you mentioned but therapy can determine the appropriate diagnosis.
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- ?Lv 63 years ago
trans age, trans racial and trans species people ONLY exist to make actual transgender and nonbinary people look bad. There's NO history behind them and NO validity to anything they claim. Every single example i've ever seen the individual has turned around sometimes minutes later and said derogatory things about transgender and nonbinary people.
- Anonymous3 years ago
Because someone wanting to be another race has racist implications and shows a mind controlled by racism.
EDIT: I get what you are saying but when something has racist implications it is taken differently then what may have sexist implications and someone wanting to be the opposite sex doesn't say sexist in most people's mind even if they do not particularly agree with transgenders.