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Posted on 6/4/15 at 2:40 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Posted on 6/4/15 at 2:40 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
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If we're going by current psychological profiles -- he is transgendered, he is not transsexual.
Transgender, I thought, encompasses all of those who are the opposite gender of what they portray.
A male who lives his life as a female (externally) is still a transgender, and a male who has hormone therapy and surgery is considered transsexual.
You are, as always, correct.
My only contention with using the term transgender centers on my sympathy for children who exhibit gender identification disorder, GID. In every case I've examined, the child is so traumatized by the stress from social stigma that he or she acts out in some way. It is all too often a self-destructive act.
Jenner was not affected that way. He has lived a life as a typical heterosexual and still states his preference for women. Quite the opposite of being self-destructive, he became famous as an Olympic athlete and parlayed this public esteem into a life full of beautiful women and success.
I just can't peg him with a GID label. Rather, I think the man has a narcissistic personality disorder. His obsession with women has led him to think, in my opinion, that he can be a better woman than they can.
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Posted on 6/4/15 at 4:19 pm to Kentucker
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I just can't peg him with a GID label. Rather, I think the man has a narcissistic personality disorder. His obsession with women has led him to think, in my opinion, that he can be a better woman than they can.
While I needn't preface this: Neither of us are psychologists, but I think you may be onto something regarding that. It sort of reminds me of novelists who tell their stories from the perspective of the opposite gender, but do a very poor job because of the obvious lack of required knowledge.
Just as an addendum: I don't agree with the label of transgender in general, it just, as pointed out, sounds better. The gay, transgender position of psychology is the only part that I really, really abhor.
I've never seen a therapy that seeks, instead of reversing the ailment, to enable it. Doctors and therapists alike never prescribe knives to better cut yourself, so it bothers me that they encourage living as the opposite gender in spite of obvious biological inhibitors.
The psychological research into gay and transgendered studies is too afraid to offend people rather than say what's physiologically objective.
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