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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
It was a lie from the get-go. The actual rule is "live and let live, as long as you live in a way that fits my misguided, myopic, and totally warped sense of reality."
That has been the rule here, it is still the rule here, and unless more people like you, me, Grumpy, and yes even justjim work to change it, it'll continue to be the rule.
There are transgenders living right here in the Villages, who might have read these posts and seen that members of THEIR community are referring to them as "freaks." A doctor, no less. "America's Friendliest Hometown" is a lie.
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Give it a rest. You are intelligent enough to know I was NOT rendering a medical opinion. I can remember at least 2 pre-op and two [post-op transgender patients, and they were all treated with the utmost of respect, dignity, and professionalism. So don't give me that "a doctor, no less" crap.
What I expressed was a personal opinion, we are still permitted that in America, the PC police haven't taken that away completely(yet). And it is not without basis. We have mapped the entire human genome, and I don't think we have found the "transgender" gene. So the argument that they were "born that way" is, well to be polite, unsubstantiated. Therefore there is something in their environment/upbringing that led to their condition. Maybe mommy gave the boys too many dolls to play with or the girls the GI Joe bazooka. Maybe there was sexual abuse at a very early age. But in any case, I've found that all transgenders I know have deeply seated psychopathology.
Unless you go to some third world craphole for your surgery, legitimate programs will do very thorough psychiatric testing. That, in and of itself , should tell you something.
But as I said before, I don't "hate" transgender people, I simply disagree with the premise. So for all those holier than thou posters who didn't like the word "freak", I ask if you ever cured pneumonia or treated HTN or DM for your transgender neighbors?? I didn't think so, thus the guy with the "don't judge" line can judge that.
And back to the OP----I played golf with a transgender individual (male--->female). He/she was hitting their drives 280-300. At least he/she didn't play the yellow tees with all the other "girls".