Posted on 08/06/2007 2:41:22 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Excerpt:
...This is not a choice," he said Friday. "It's something you try to deny and hide, but as time goes on, as you become more miserable in your own skin, you just can't take it anymore."
Cummings said he was 3 when he realized he was born in the wrong body. His parents didn't understand. After they came to South Florida from Cuba, Maritza gravitated to boys' activities, like weightlifting, and she joined the Army. It didn't help. She abused drugs and alcohol, attempted suicide in her 20s.
Then she found out that there was a medical explanation and there was something she could do about it. Maritza became Mark.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Have at it...
When was the last time any “transgendered” person was denied any “right”?
PS, Having me stop sneering at them is not a right!
these folks don’t want rights, they want special rights.
It is not nor should it be my responsibility to pay for your transgender operations.
If you want to be a sick freak, fine. I just should not have to foot the bill.
I feel badly for folks like this. They may not deserve more
rights than anyone else, but I’m sure they don’t deserve
abuse or derision. It doesn’t seem like she chose her situation, anymore than someone chose mental retardation.
There for the grace of God, etc.
Deviates just want to be noticed and afforded special "rights" that normal folks aren't getting.
This article is about one of those who showers with women, and wants legal rights to do so?
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola/Maritza
thank you ~ ray davies & the kinks!!!!
I am morphed and I’m still me and that’s just great!
I am proud that my sillhouette is scary.
That I walk with a certain shambling gait.
I obliterate the weak and the unwary.
I adore getting wishes from a wand, and I don’t wish for any kind of scroll,
no, the thing that I want is so much better, I need a blessed ring of polymorph control!
When I have a ring of polymorph,
and my plate mail isn’t worn,
well I don’t wanna be no king dwarf,
I enjoy being a Xorn.
when Titans say I’m not so tall, and
they give me a look of scorn,
well, I turn and walk right through the wall,
I enjoy being a Xorn.
I flip when a fellow drops his dagger!
I drool over items made of tin!
If a weapon’s cursed then it might make me stagger!
But I’m still the monster who’s gonna make me win!
I’m morphin’ from male to female, and my future I hope will be,
in the home of the evil wizard, who I’ll kill,
take all his loot, and then ascend, home free.
My magic rings taste like candy,
for the loss of them I won’t mourn,
cause intrinsics can come in handy,
I enjoy being a xorn.
My skin and limbs are like boulders,
so it’s hard for them to be shorn.
Plus I’ve got three heads on three shoulders,
I enjoy being a xorn.
When I’m shot at by a magic missile, that beats my attacking by a lot,
I turn and I glower and I grizzle, cause I should be magic resistant, but I’m not!
I’m morphin’ from male to female, and my future I hope will be,
in the home of the evil wizard, who I’ll kill,
take all his loot, and then ascend, home free.
Having convoluted sexual desires does not mean one was BORN THAT WAY!
Being mentally ill and chemically / surgically altered should give one no special consideration.
I’m not going to read this article. I’m just stopping by for a moment to ridicule.
Puleeze, as if at 3 anyone knows from one day to the next if they like peas better than carrots.
Oh,c'mon.....this is a creature that's just *begging* to be ridiculed!
The collectivist premise is that the government creates and grants rights so people, and some people have different (more and better) rights than other people. This means that the government has to take away your rights and give them to someone more politically favored. For example, if you think this gender-benderism is wrong or unnatural, the government will take away your right to speak your opinion and it will force you to say things in favor of gender-benderism, because the transgendered person has the “right” to feel good and not be criticized. If you have money you want to spend or invest, the government will take your money so that drug addicts have the “right” to taxpayer funded needles. If you think you have a right to defend your home from criminals, the government will take away your means to defend yourself and it will grant violent criminals a long list of “rights,” until criminals can do pretty much whatever they want.
Ever notice that transgender issues are always Gay?
If this was a real problem wouldn’t it be a heterosexual issue?
Gender Envy is not a medical condition, it is an illness that medical science (who, by the way, stand to gain a fortune from the "treatment" and surgery for) has invented. The whole issue of calling it a medical condition is to force insurance and even more importantly- taxpayers - to pay for this super high $ surgery and "treatment".
When was the last time any transgendered person was denied any right?
It isn't about real rights denied, it is about creating new and "special" rights for those who are unhappy with their gender. Much like the homosexuals want ADDITIONAL rights to "Marry" the same gender partner, the folks who WANT to change gender what the "right" to have someone else pay for it (read that taxpayers).
Abomination to human kind, and to God's design. A real "birth defect" related to gender would be if someone were born with BOTH sets of reproductive organs. IN that case, I can see at least an argument for removing one set (although I'm still not convinced that taxpayers should be footing the bill). But such cases of hermaphroditic births are super rare.
His DNA says differently. And it doesn't lie.
They have the right to be ridiculed.
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