This post is about a Dr. Phil show I saw the other night and
about Christmas and other such holidays in the public view. So first off I saw
Dr. Phil the other night with a family that was very religious and against
pretty much how they identify as their daughter transitioning to male. So this
trans-guy on there had not gone through any surgeries or anything, but he was
in his 30’s and he had decided that he was going to get top surgery and also
start hormones. So he went on this show because his family didn’t agree or
whatever.
Honestly I don’t really like Dr. Phil, but at one point he
asked a good question. He asked the guy one question. “Do you think that after
transition, or after surgery, and after living as a male, do you think
relationships will be harder?” The trans man responded with “No I don’t think
relationships will be hard because I will fully be able to be myself, and with
the love I have for myself, I will be able to build relationships” and he
continued saying that even though some people won’t accept him, but the love he
has for himself will conquer all other relationships. Dr. Phil proceeded to say
that with the answer the trans-man had just given him, Dr. Phil thinks it’s
clear that he should not transition yet.
My take on this, is surprisingly I agree with Dr. Phil.
Because if you really think about it, if you decide to transition, and you
think love will conquer all and that your life will be so much better, and your
relationships will be better (relationships meaning: friendships, family
members, and sexual relationships) I think that you are wrong. If you cannot
acknowledge that relationships will be hard after transition, as whole as you
may feel, it is just not going to work the way you think it may. If you go up
to a guy or a girl, eventually there will be a time where you will have to tell
them you are transgendered. That you do not have what a bio-male may have
downstairs, and if you think that it isn’t going to affect that relationship, you
need to be awakened. Honestly I truly feel that this guy was not ready to
transition. He was fighting and I think that if you have to fight in your transition
and fight really hard when you don’t have that much support, transition is
going to be very difficult for you. I really have to agree with Dr. Phil on
this one because if you think that after transition that everything is going to
be grand and dandy, and you’re going to be totally fine, and every relationship
is going to be fine because “I am a man, I’m a trans-man, but I’m a man” Yeah
you’re a man. Mmmhmm you are, I fully believe that, inside and outside. But the
view that other people may have is going to be different. Your relationships
will be affected, oh they will be, trust me.
On to the next topic, this whole Christianity and public
property, there’s a baby Jesus on my Courthouse thing. And I think it’s just
hilarious, because here we have these Christian people (not all but some),
hyper Christians if you will. Who think that all trans-gender’s and gay people
are going to hell. Meanwhile there are all these other people going “you know
what? You are basically shoving your Christianity down our throats because when
I go by, I am pretty much forced to look at what you have in front of the
courthouse, or what you have in all these public spaces” Okay? Yeah it’s true
because it’s a public space, so it should be open to everybody. Nobody should
feel threatened going into any public space, when it has to do with their
religion or their gender or anything. But that isn’t my issue, my issue is that
these hyper Christians went on T.V and said (drum roll please) “If you don’t
like it don’t look.” Huh. Gee doesn’t that sound familiar? Because here I am
thinking well if you don’t like gay people, don’t be friends with them or if
you don’t like gay people turn the other way. If you don’t think two girls
should be holding hands then don’t look.
I just thought it was funny because the same stuff they are
spewing out to other people about their religion is the same thing we’re
spewing out about our gender or our sexual orientation or whatever the case may
be. I just thought it was amusing that they could go on T.V. and say “If you
don’t like it don’t look” but when we say “if you don’t like it don’t look”
they flip shit and say “It’s against the law” or “it’s against the Bible” or “it’s
against what I believe”
It’s like they’re using our swords. They’re reaching into
the gay, Trans, lesbian, all that stuff’s closet and pulling out our swords and
fighting other people with them. But when we say “hey, oh can we have that
back? That’s our line” they go “Oh, no, no, no, we can say turn your head but
nobody else can turn their head to that. Pphh No way, I’m
not turning my eye, I’m fighting for my right to be a Christian heterosexual,
blah,blah,blah”
I just thought it was ridiculous
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