Why are people so ignorant and foolish about transsexuality? And why are they cruel to TSs in consequence?
fallenbose is a TEXTBOOK example of how entrenched thinking leads a person to make completely false statements (and look pretty silly in the process.) It was this exact sort of attitude that kept sailors from leaving the site of land for hundreds of years, lest they “fall off the edge of the earth”, or be “devoured by sea monsters.” Thank goodness 21st century medical science has not stagnated in this fashion. As Leah pointed out, the internet makes it possible to find information in seconds, though one does need to be discerning. In the case of the medical condition known as transsexualism, both the medical and psychiatric communities have agreed that this is a TREATABLE, PHYSICAL MEDICAL CONDITION which can incorporate psychological components purely as symptoms of the brain/body mismatch. To this end, the AMA (a respected organization of physicians, founded in 1847, considered to be the leading authority on medicine in this country) has issued a resolution declaring transsexualism t
