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-:Undertaker:-
It is a chemical reaction mainly which thus influences other areas of your person, transsexuality on the other hand is not influenced at all by chemicals only by thought and the idea that 'I am a man trapped in a womans body' or vice versa. Healthcare should not be influenced by thought/mental issues, it should be based on reality.
The thought that you are the opposite sex is not medical reality, its fantasy/wishful thinking.
The difference is that those people paid for it themselves, and cosmestic surgery is rather different to taking hormones and changing organs around in order to imitate the opposite sex; personally I find that kind of surgery deeply distasteful.
Whether I represent or say things that conflict with the idea of an LGBT 'community' is irrelevent, the idea that because you are gay means you have to have militant gay stances on every issue or question the right of speech of those who don't agree with homosexuality/transsexualism is a strand of militantism.
I for one don't agree (on a personal level) with gay marriage or civil partnerships as I feel marriage is the bedrock of the family, I also do not agree with gay adoption and thus wouldn't do it myself. On the other hand (with the marriage issue) I also respect the idea that thats my choice and the choice should be open to those who do want to get married but it should also be there for those who don't wish to perform such ceremonies (ie the Church).
But back to the transseuxal issue as thats more of a diversion; I don't agree with transsexualism, but also respect the right that if somebody should want to carry this out to their body they should have every right to do so - however not at the expense of the taxpayer especially at a time when cancer drugs are being denied to cancer patients who are in real need of help.
That is my issue with this.
I agree with the NHS point, it was wrong of them to do it in the first place. However the second part, you are basically giving into blackmail - if somebody is willing to take their life then thats a choice and not a condition.
There is no aspect of 'saving a life' as the life is not in danger, unless of course he wishes to take it himself.
Its a mental problem yes, he feels himself to be a woman when in reality he is not. I gave the Jesus Christ example before, some people genuinely believe they are the son of god - however you'd quite rightly dismiss them as nuts. This is the same thing, just for idealogical purposes we're stampeided into pretending transsexualism is some sort of disease.
Homosexuality is chemical, transsexualism is not - one is the chemical reaction of the body, the other is a thought.
The only 'evidence' you provided before was a sob-site which pretends or makes out that transsexualism is some form of disease rather than what it is in reality, a mental thought where the subject actually thinks they are the opposite sex. They may be similar to the opposite sex yes in personality just as many gay guys are - but thats called being feminine as its part of your personality.
It-is-not-an-illness!
If it is an illnesss, it is only a mental illness - which needs to be treated, not by giving into this 'illness'. You are pretending that it is some sort of chemical illness like a real disease, it is not. It is merely a thought which goes to the extreme.
As for the Jesus Christ part, well whats the difference? they believe they are Jesus Christ just as transsexuals believe they are the opposite sex when in reality they are not; (in the case of a male) they have male DNA, male genes, male hormones and male sex organs and always will be male no matter how many drugs/hormones they pump into themselves to satisfy their mental imagination that they are somehow something different. It would be like myself believing I don't have black hair when I do and I always will have as its in my gene codes.
As for the gay issue, yes i'm telling you - many people believe 100% they are straight until it finally dawns on them that they are anything but, you can search numerous teen forums for that particular case.
The same applies to transsexualism, its a mental thought - not reality.
Yes but that is reality Rosie, if I lose my leg that is reality - transsexualism on the other hand is in the mind, it is not real.
