This thread... wow. A whole bunch of hate here, not too much respect for one another.
What I find annoying with present day media agenda with this Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner situation here in the states is how polarizing reporters and interviewers are making the situation out to be. This "you either completely respect and love this decision to transform from a male olympic gold medalist to female touched up vogue model, or you're a trans-phobic jerk.". Honest to god I'm pretty ignorant on the subject, it hasn't ever been a big part of my life because I was never exposed to it, I'm learning now of terms like cis, pan, etc. and their relationship to sexuality. As someone who likes to critically think and take in the information, process it, and make an informed decision, I dislike that people feeling uneasy or unsure about all of this are being treated as bigots.
I think they are all at least valid questions worth posing. I was mulling it over today, and, I guess the person wants to go by the name "Caitlyn" said, while she was still a he, that "I always have had a woman's brain." and I simply can't fathom what that means. I feel like it's almost disingenuous to simply assert "No no, I'm actually a woman.", and I don't know why this matters, I don't know if it matters, but for some reason that phrase about the whole "woman's brain" thing bothers me because Bruce Jenner, the male, was very much a straight male. He was sexually attracted to women. When asked about whether or not that was changing, he said no. So despite being born a man, attracted to women, there's this assumption that he has a woman's brain and was born in the wrong body. Which is confusing. Just need to add here after reading this over: I'm not saying it's not okay to be a female attracted to other females, I'm just saying if I were a male at birth attracted to other females, I'd have a hard time convincing myself that I should have been born female. But to top it all off, he wants to keep his penis. So he's a male, sexually attracted to women, who decides at age 65 to undergo the transformation with the shaving down of his adam's apple, the lips, the face, the hair, the boobs, etc. to have a woman's figure, but she (Caitlyn now) likes females still, and top it all of wants to keep (her?) penis.
I don't know that's just a bunch to take in, and I don't even know where or how to start.
Last edited by Bodhisattva; Jun 3, 2015 at 06:01 AM.