Our thoughts are so strongly influenced by language- and we’ve been trained to use certain words.
Although people who wish they were the other sex clearly have every right to exist and should be able to dress as they please IMO we should stop using the words transition and trans (on its own and as a suffix) as it suggests that it is possible to change sex. There is no such thing as a person who has changed sex so the word trans is misleading.
I am starting to say pretend and role-play instead of ‘identifies’ or ‘lives as’ as they are more accurate. People might not like it and might prefer euphemisms, but euphemisms hide truth, that’s their whole point. The truth can sometimes be painful but that’s no reason to lie. The fact that I feel nervous posting this and expect to be deleted is insanity! That I am expected to say that a man who decides to adopt stereotypical women’s clothing is ‘living as a woman’ and can expect to be chastised or worse if I say that he is pretending to be a woman is utterly shocking. I don’t think it’s wrong to pretend to be a woman - just call it what it is and don’t expect other people to join in.
I do not consent to be part of anyone else’s fetish, I do not want to lie to children, I do not want to reinforce vulnerable children’s distress at the reality of their bodies by telling them that they are in the wrong body and should alter it with drugs and surgery, I think a happier outcome is that they are helped to explore the reasons for their distress and hopefully to accept the body they have. I am horrified that I can’t say this in public. I do not want to take part in role-play. So I can’t use misleading words.
And I’d like to know where the word ‘transvestite’ went.
I know the haven’t said anything new, but listening to what’s happening in Scotland is so chilling.