Why can't people just learn to be happy with who they are instead of going to the endless and troublesome surgeries to try to become a completely different person? Say if you do go to the trouble and end up feeling just as miserable as ever just to realize that you can't go back to the way you were before you started.
shareSorry but you are not transgender and has never felt what it is like to be transgender so you have no right and no authority to talk about transgender people just having to learn to be who they are.
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I agree that it is perplexing but then again I think it shows the level of dispair and suffering these people go through, because no one would go to such extremes if the situation wasn't dire.
Before talking about transgenders: I have a masssive bone to pick with this movie. Einer was not transgender , he/she was intersex which has NOTHING to do with being transgender. Intersex people are born with biological quantifiable differences, ambiguous genitalia and/or mismatched genitalia (eg male +female genitalia), chromosome profiles that are not gender normative (xxy instead of xx or xy, or other combinations), quantifiable hormonal issues, etc. Bottomline, their issue is biological, some things we know how to counter balance these days, others we still don"t. Either way the individual just knows whether they are male or female once they grow up and everyone is clear as to why they can look different: it's biological.
Now transgenders are a whole other issue because they have no quantifiable biological issues to speak of: no hormonal issues, no chromosome issues, perfectly normal genitalia for their chromosome profiles, basically their is nothing bioogically wrong with them. However they feel they are born in the wrong body.
As these feelings have so far no biological basis ,they lend themselves to culture wars between those who think it's a mental illness/syndrome and those who think it's some kind of non currently quantifiable biological issue. This is a completely different issue from the intersex folks and one should not be construed with the other.
When it comes to transgendered people, I am, like you, not sure that surgery and/or hormones is the answer. Looking at the various youtube diaries these folks have, none seem to really ever be happy with what they are. They obsess about their body features just like anorexics do. Even once they've gone through all the operations and are on hormones and more or less look like the opposite gender (depending on the person) it only seems to partially alleviate their disphoria...if they could accept themselves as they are they would certainly be happier (and in less debt! Those medical professional s are really taking advantage of these folks despair to line their pockets!).
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Because they would be 'happier' after going through the endless and nowadays less troublesome surgeries which more depend on consuming hormones to alter their physical appearances than resorting to swapping around internal body parts... This film represents the old days when people believed chopping a piece of your brain would make you normal again, which we all know now is a death sentence to a lifetime of living as a vegetable.
Botox has a notorious reputation for regrets and miserable outcomes on a lot of people who become obsessed with it until their faces perish away to waxlike monstrous abominations.
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I don't get how anyone could watch this movie and still not get it.
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