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aspawloski4th
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To take my complaint further a little bit. I am tired of when people make this association mistake they act like they know what they are talking about and in some instances I don’t. Well people the past is the past and in this day in age you need to know more than the job you work, and more than what is said inside your church’s walls on Sunday. With all the oportunities to lear n new things in our society in this day and age it floors me how many don’t artake of them. Mostly because people want to be enterained and not informed, or think knowing how to do thier job is enough. What a waste of human life.I know it must be frustrating to see, over and over, transsexualism conflated with homosexuality. No, the two have nothing to do with one another.
But I think some confusion of the two is inevitable. Most people, even if they disagree with it, can wrap their minds around same-sex attraction. They understand what it is like to feel attraction to the opposite sex, and by extension can “understand” how someone might feel the same attraction, even if it is to a member of the same sex.
But transsexualism is totally beyond the experiences of almost everyone. Few people understand what it is like to feel like they have the wrong body, day after day, with reminders every few minutes. So I think people try to relate transsexualism to something they do understand, and the closest thing they can think of is homosexuality since many gays and lesbians challenge traditional gender roles (e.g. the boy or man who is deemed not masculine enough)