Would you date a transgender person? Poll

Some interesting reading, I checked the link and he made some good points. The only thing that makes me question his stance is this part- "People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women"- we all know that, we know they don't literally, medically, biologically become women. For me, that's like going to a funeral and someone saying "he's with Jesus now" and replying "no he isn't, he's rotting in the ground with worms eating his eyeballs". He seems to be pretending he doesn't understand the difference between sex and gender, because I can't believe he doesn't know that, which makes me question his motives.

Surely that's more a matter of manners? If someone wants to be referred to in a certain way, it's polite to accept if the request is genuine and reasonable. I really don't see how you think refusing to do that could possibly help someone? No doctors have suggested we should do so, have they?

Some interesting reading, I checked the link and he made some good points. The only thing that makes me question his stance is this part- "People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women"- we all know that, we know they don't literally, medically, biologically become women. For me, that's like going to a funeral and someone saying "he's with Jesus now" and replying "no he isn't, he's rotting in the ground with worms eating his eyeballs". He seems to be pretending he doesn't understand the difference between sex and gender, because I can't believe he doesn't know that, which makes me question his motives.

Surely that's more a matter of manners? If someone wants to be referred to in a certain way, it's polite to accept if the request is genuine and reasonable. I really don't see how you think refusing to do that could possibly help someone? No doctors have suggested we should do so, have they?

But actually I think it is very important to spell that out, because as evidenced by this thread, one hell of a lot of misinformed people actually DO think that there is an operation that does literally, medically, biologically, transform a man into a woman.

The bottom line is, if you were born a man you are a man and will always be a man and that will never, ever change so you might as well get used to the idea. Don't like your associated gender? Fine, feel free to ignore gender entirely, 99% of people won't mind a bit.

Show me one quote that shows that. When people talk about a "sex change" operation, they're just using a laymans term. I've never heard anyone say that someone's chromosones change.

That's a seriously deluded thought. In any case, you can change your gender. You can't change your sex. That's the main reason we have two different terms. What transgender people are saying is "I feel like I am a woman trapped in a man's body, and it's really important to me that I appear masculine and am recognised as a man" (or vice versa). Just abide by those very reasonable terms and there won't be a problem.

Read my entire argument with user "holocene" who maintained throughout that they did change sex.

I think it's less people having problem with the people per se, more disagreeing with the whole practice of surgery to 'fix' your body. It's essentially another form of cosmetic surgery, just like a breast augmentation if a woman feels unhappy with the breasts she has.