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Klumpen0815: So I can out myself as a Vorlon without being locked away as a mental case now?
And so it begins...
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Klumpen0815: The question is: Would you be distracted from street straffic by public nudity? Pragmatic reasons come into play here too although those don't seem to matter as much as purely emotional ones and current agendas that are based on more or less religious ideologies.

Dissatisfaction with such things may be a good sign because it does mean that bigger problems have been reduced at least a bit when there's time for it, well but it's also a common way to distract from the real (often connected) problems by now.
The main problem are people trying to force their views onto others though, as has been mentioned in this thread already. It should be ok for me to see myself as a Vorlon, but I shouldn't be able to force everyone else to accept my Vorlonity as a fact by thought police and manipulated papers regarding my currently inferior and unfitting biology. I know that when it comes to the crunch, some human medic has to handle this body the correct way as it is and I probably should avoid confusion when it comes to the mating season and reproductive activities.
Public nudity is illegal here, don't know if your country is the same or not. It is violating people right because many people do not want to see. Nudity in private places is ok because you do not affect others that do not wish to see.
Have to say I liked the conversation a lot more when Thunderdome was involved.
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Gnostic: It is easy to Google it, but here you go
https://www.google.com/search?q=man+pretend+gay+rape&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

It is one thing for a person to identify with whatever the person want. It is another to ask others to think like him / her.

Look I can identify as GOD. You puny humans are just my creation and should obey my every whim.
If I keep to myself and don't bother other people, others won't bother me because it is my freedom to think whatever I want.

If I keep preaching endlessly to other people and keep stalking them to worship me, they will call the police for harassment.

It is people freedom to do whatever they want, as long as their freedom does not interfere with others freedom, that is where the line is drawn.
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dtgreene: Here is something of note:

There is no scientific evidence that transracial or transspecies identities have any biological basis. (This includes, for example, identifying as a deity.)

There is, however, evidence that transgender identities have a biological basis. In particular, evidence shows that the brains of transgender people resemble those of their identified gender in certain respects.
Why do I need scientific evidence to identify as a GOD?

I believe we are talking about the rights of an individual should not diminished the rights of another individual?

If my identification as a GOD does not diminished your right, then I have every right to identify as a GOD.

If my identification as a GOD diminished your rights, despite all the scientific evidence supporting that I am a GOD, I should not make public the fact I am a GOD to respect your rights.
Yes?

PS: If you don't like the word GOD, then replace it with DOG and the argument still stands.
Post edited September 26, 2015 by Gnostic
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Gnostic: It is easy to Google it, but here you go
https://www.google.com/search?q=man+pretend+gay+rape&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

It is one thing for a person to identify with whatever the person want. It is another to ask others to think like him / her.

Look I can identify as GOD. You puny humans are just my creation and should obey my every whim.
If I keep to myself and don't bother other people, others won't bother me because it is my freedom to think whatever I want.

If I keep preaching endlessly to other people and keep stalking them to worship me, they will call the police for harassment.

It is people freedom to do whatever they want, as long as their freedom does not interfere with others freedom, that is where the line is drawn.
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dtgreene: Here is something of note:

There is no scientific evidence that transracial or transspecies identities have any biological basis. (This includes, for example, identifying as a deity.)

There is, however, evidence that transgender identities have a biological basis. In particular, evidence shows that the brains of transgender people resemble those of their identified gender in certain respects.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan/

I should also point out that the suicide rate is really high (41% is a figure I have seen) in transgender people who don't transition. See, for example, the case of Leelah Alcorn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn&oldid=682605910

Also, there is evidence of cisgender people experiencing gender dysphoria when presenting as the opposite gender for too long. Norah Vincent (a cisgender woman who presented as male for an extended period of time to get material for a book) had to stop presenting male because of such issues. David Reimer, who was forced to present female at the advice of the doctor who botched his circumcism, ended up identifying as male and ended up committing suicide.
Of course not. Transracialism and Trans-specieism is probably a mental disorder .
There was a very tame conversation about transgenderism and gender dysphoria in the GG thread. I'm not surprised trans people have the brain features of their identifying gender. One of the commonest ways gender dysphoria occurs is when the baby in the womb gets an imbalanced spread of hormones between his / her body and brain. Hence creating the feeling of being trapped in the wrong body. Basically, in the womb, their brain receives the hormones opposite to that of their sex, and the body is obviously of the per-determined sex. This is one of the strongest arguments against the ''gender is a social construct'' argument. Check out the GG thread.

Yes suicide rate is higher in trans people. AFAIK the cause is still unknown. I cannot provide statistics nor proof so you'll have to go by my word here but the rate of transgender suicides is very low here in India. I take it as an assumption based on lack of evidence, AKA there are no reports saying the suicide rate is high so I assume the opposite. This could mean a cultural element to this equation.
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Shadowstalker16: Yes suicide rate is higher in trans people. AFAIK the cause is still unknown. I cannot provide statistics nor proof so you'll have to go by my word here but the rate of transgender suicides is very low here in India. I take it as an assumption based on lack of evidence, AKA there are no reports saying the suicide rate is high so I assume the opposite. This could mean a cultural element to this equation.
I decided to check your claim about transgender suicide rates in India and found an article that contradicts that claim:
http://www.thesoftcopy.in/archive/softcopy_2012_13/06_12_12_romana_suicide.html

Quote from that article:

In India, the suicide rate is three per 100,000 persons, while the transgender suicide rate is 31 percent.
Also, keep in mind that some of these statistics are under-reported.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/india-statistics-include-trans-people-for-first-time/

It's also interesting to note that, in India, the supreme court recognizes transgender people, but has recriminalized gay sex. (One step forward, one step back, although they affect different (but not disjoint) groups of people.)
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Shadowstalker16: Yes suicide rate is higher in trans people. AFAIK the cause is still unknown. I cannot provide statistics nor proof so you'll have to go by my word here but the rate of transgender suicides is very low here in India. I take it as an assumption based on lack of evidence, AKA there are no reports saying the suicide rate is high so I assume the opposite. This could mean a cultural element to this equation.
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dtgreene: I decided to check your claim about transgender suicide rates in India and found an article that contradicts that claim:
http://www.thesoftcopy.in/archive/softcopy_2012_13/06_12_12_romana_suicide.html

Quote from that article:

In India, the suicide rate is three per 100,000 persons, while the transgender suicide rate is 31 percent.
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dtgreene: Also, keep in mind that some of these statistics are under-reported.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/india-statistics-include-trans-people-for-first-time/

It's also interesting to note that, in India, the supreme court recognizes transgender people, but has recriminalized gay sex. (One step forward, one step back, although they affect different (but not disjoint) groups of people.)
OK, good (bad actually) then. Seems I should've done better digging. Given economic conditions are also a factor; maybe the largest factor contributing to higher suicide rates is social rather than intrinsic to the person.
Yes the precedent will be difficult to break since SC precedents can be broken only with other SC judgements. Given that, I don't think anyone will ever be convicted of that if the case should arise and get appealed to the SC.
Factoid : adultery is a punishable crime as per Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code. Only for men.
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Shadowstalker16: Yes suicide rate is higher in trans people. AFAIK the cause is still unknown. I cannot provide statistics nor proof so you'll have to go by my word here but the rate of transgender suicides is very low here in India. I take it as an assumption based on lack of evidence, AKA there are no reports saying the suicide rate is high so I assume the opposite. This could mean a cultural element to this equation.
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dtgreene: I decided to check your claim about transgender suicide rates in India and found an article that contradicts that claim:
http://www.thesoftcopy.in/archive/softcopy_2012_13/06_12_12_romana_suicide.html

Quote from that article:

In India, the suicide rate is three per 100,000 persons, while the transgender suicide rate is 31 percent.
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dtgreene: Also, keep in mind that some of these statistics are under-reported.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/india-statistics-include-trans-people-for-first-time/

It's also interesting to note that, in India, the supreme court recognizes transgender people, but has recriminalized gay sex. (One step forward, one step back, although they affect different (but not disjoint) groups of people.)
I read contradicting information in the post your link yourself.

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At least 16 transgender people died of suicide in India last year and another 106 died in accidents, according to data released earlier this month
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Speaking to DNA, a Delhi-based transgender Rurani said: ‘Another reason for suicide can be the lack of opportunities faced by the community be it in getting an education or jobs.’

The data backs up her claim.

Thirteen of the 16 transgender people who died by suicide were aged between 18 and 30, four were un-employed, two were self employed and the 10 others were engaged in ‘other professions.’ Twelve earned less than 10,000 rupees ($156.62) a month.
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There are many people who would use constructed truth to make things seems more serious than it is. Like people use the rape statistic in prison to say rape is very serious in the US when it is actually declining.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/rape-way-down-over-past-two-decades-%E2%80%94-so-all-violent-crime

Is that the truth with prison rape? Yes, with the rest of the truth hidden to make matter look more serious than it is.



Now on the case of LGBT suicide, I am sorry not to respond on it earlier, I had this discussion before and need time to find the correct links

Suicide is not good regardless of gender identification. As to why US LGBT suicide is higher, maybe it is a cultural thing that LGBT suicide is glorified in US and children are entitled to have their parents paying for surgical fees.

Comparatively, India, where many family drown baby girls and are very very poor, Not many people cared if and LGBT individual suicide and LGBT individual themselves does not have much expectation for their parents to fork out money for their surgical procedure.

Ever wonder why suicide note is always taken down no matter the person sexual orientation, race, and religion?

Because it reduce suicide by 80%

http://www.suicide.org/media-guidelines-for-suicide.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864313/Social-media-glorifies-normalises-suicidal-behaviours-young-people-teenagers-recent-study-shows.html

By championing Leelah Alcorn suicide as a worthwhile cause, the LGBT community may did what her parent inadvertently did, encouraging suicide! Suicide is meaningful! Sure the LGBT did it in their best intention for the LGBT community, but these message may lead other "troubled" child think suicide is right and should do the same to contribute to the LGBT community.

In other words, many future suicide may be caused by the LGBT, unintentionally by glorifying suicide

What the LGBT community should do in improving the suicide rate is to send a message suicide is wrong.
She can removed herself from her parents' influence when she is an working adult and begun the sexual reassignment process. Two years, to which she "solved" by killing herself. Remember: "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
Post edited September 26, 2015 by Gnostic
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hedwards: Personally, I'd like to see more unisex restrooms anyways as it's a good compromise for folks that aren't really comfortable with people that are apparently of a different sex in their restroom. It's also a useful solution to dealing with potty parity issues.
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Gnostic: Guess what, last year India petition for separation of male and female toilet is finally heard and acted on

Really funny, I have a feeling of deja vuI, where does it comes from?

Ah yes, I think there was a time when the great grandmother fight for the right to show more skin, now her great granddaughter fight to take away the right to show more skin.

It all come full circle.

I think that has something to do with people mentality, people don't appreciate what they have and want things they don't have, Deep thought does not enter into the equation.

I am sure after gender neutral toilet is the prevalent norm, people would campaign for separate gender toilet again, like India. Maybe in our great grandchildren generation.
India has it's own issues right now that make separating them make sense. I have no idea if rape really is that much more common there than elsewhere, but that's the driving factor. In the US, I think it has more to do with the fact that they'd have to give men more stalls than anything else.
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Klumpen0815: Oh yes, I'm always pissed (pun not intended) for not having as many cabins as the girls do. I really don't want to stand beside strangers exposed penises, thank you!
At least as an adult there's doors on the stalls. I remember when I was a kid there would often times not be a door on the stall at all. Having no divider between the urinals is no big deal compared with lack of doors.

I've heard women tell of restrooms that had couches in them and real glass mirrors. But, clearly they don't need to check their privilege.

That being said, who would use a couch in a restroom? Even if you assume that nobody is pissing on it, it's still going to have all sorts of e. coli and whatnot from the flushes.
Post edited September 26, 2015 by hedwards
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Gnostic: By championing Leelah Alcorn suicide as a worthwhile cause, the LGBT community may did what her parent inadvertently did, encouraging suicide! Suicide is meaningful! Sure the LGBT did it in their best intention for the LGBT community, but these message may lead other "troubled" child think suicide is right and should do the same to contribute to the LGBT community.

In other words, many future suicide may be caused by the LGBT, unintentionally by glorifying suicide

What the LGBT community should do in improving the suicide rate is to send a message suicide is wrong.
She can removed herself from her parents' influence when she is an working adult and begun the sexual reassignment process. Two years, to which she "solved" by killing herself. Remember: "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
Two years was too long for her to wait.

This is especially important when your parents are the sort who would send you to conversion therapy, which has been proven to do more harm than good (to the point where some US states have actually banned it for kids under 18).

Also, consider that her parents forbade her from contact with her friends. This leads to isolation, which is in this case led to suicide.

Here's a quote from a reddit post Leelah made: "It's like they want me to have enough social interaction so I won't forget how to interact with humans, but they don't want me to actually have healthy relationships with people."

The link to that reddit post, if you want to read it (major TRIGGER WARNING):
https://np.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/2km6yt/is_this_considered_abuse

In conclusion, two years was indeed too long with abusive parents.
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Gnostic: What the LGBT community should do in improving the suicide rate is to send a message suicide is wrong.
She can removed herself from her parents' influence when she is an working adult and begun the sexual reassignment process. Two years, to which she "solved" by killing herself. Remember: "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
They're already doing that. That's what the "It gets better project"is all about. It's mostly American only, but there are similar projects elsewhere.

The social isolation is by far the worst part.
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hedwards: EDIT: Wow, look how many rep points people took while I was gone. I don't care about rep points, but it does kind of reinforce my whole point that there's some extremely immature people on the forum.
What are rep points? ;oP
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hedwards: EDIT: Wow, look how many rep points people took while I was gone. I don't care about rep points, but it does kind of reinforce my whole point that there's some extremely immature people on the forum.
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skeletonbow: What are rep points? ;oP
Around here we use them to eat soup. Oh, wait, there are no rep points. Never mind.
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skeletonbow: What are rep points? ;oP
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hedwards: Around here we use them to eat soup. Oh, wait, there are no rep points. Never mind.
On the other hand, there's no soup either, so it evens out nicely.
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skeletonbow: What are rep points? ;oP
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hedwards: Around here we use them to eat soup. Oh, wait, there are no rep points. Never mind.
I'm sure the old tale of "stone soup" came into play.