Greatest Gonger
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I wouldn't be so sure dual gender deities are a reference to or explanation for transgendered people rather than some symbolic discussion of gender and reproduction in humans, or perhaps a dualistic theology that divides concepts in two and ascribes to them archetypal feminine and masculine properties, brought together in a single god head. These primordial egyptian gods appear to come in pairs which would lend credence to my guesswork, but I'm not very familiar with them.Estrogen pills or patches do absolutely jack squat for someone's mental well being or even outlook on life. The only "positive" effect mentally that may occur is a repression of the male sexual impulse. For most actual transgendered people this can be therapeutic as Male sexual desires are distressing/distracting. For people like Sterling they will find the results not as helpful as the sudden loss of sexual arousal over the issue makes it less personally rewarding.
This is something that is really getting lost in the gender special debates. Choosing to be a trans woman is actually pretty shit. You will never have kids, your sex drives will become virtually non existent, you will need to apply yourself to a rigorous physical exercise and diet regimen to avoid the artificial hormones turning you into a freak show and so on. Nobody should want to do this as a form of validation. In fact every effort should be applied to not letting this happen. The human body and mind is not a Lego set that can just be rearranged at will.
We are doing vulnerable people a massive disservice by arguing otherwise and I bet big money a huge part of the 41% comes from people discovering estrogen is not magic pixie dust and trying to live out a fetish in your day to day life when you are no longer capable of a boner over it is really hard.
Transgender people have been known in human society all the way back to the oldest eras, to the point where Egyptian gods could be either male or female. Ironically for the current year, the Egyptian god Kek, the frog God is also a trannie. In female form he is Kauket. And also trans species into a snake. So yeah. This is something we have tried to address at even a religious level for thousands of years. But its not something that has been viewed as flippant. Or without cost. And that is what makes me mad about this. If Jim was serious about this he would treat it seriously. But he's not. He is still the same tub of lard demanding attention. Only now it is because he is gender special.
I can think of no worse an ambassador for trans people, short of the LGBT non profits that decided to use a negligible minority as a wedge issue to justify their continued existence post gay marriage acceptance.
The modern concept of the transgender as a type of person, outside extreme chromosomal abnormality or developmental disorder, who has the soul of one gender trapped in the physiology of another, seems to me to be non-historical. A more parsimonious explanation of most people today referring to themselves as trans is some combination of sexual fetish and the alleviation of societal alienation (maybe also existential despair) by adopting a newly constructed identity.