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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

March 16- One Main Question That Can Ask Many More

In today's society, there is so much that is kept from being made known to everyone living on this planet when it comes to gender and sexual orientation that one who really tries to discover that which is kept hidden is most often left with many questions. Millions and millions of questions begin to form in their minds, but only one question is used to ask this multitude of questions. Sure, there are a few of the questions that use other ones than this, but almost all the questions are "Why?"
My ex-uncle in-law and I had a huge disagreement once over the simple idea that two transwomen (females who are born in male bodies) could have a successful relationship. His point of view came from his watching a television channel called Logo. He told me, "There are no accounts of two transwomen ever having a successful relationship. I've never seen it on Logo, and that is the gayest channel there is. If they don't show it, then it's because it isn't possible." My point of view came more from a sense of gender not being in the same category of sexual orientation. I told him that I believed just as lesbians (females who are only attracted to other females) can co-exist as one being the male persona and the other being the female persona, so can two transwomen. With all of that said, my question is this, "Why are there no accounts of two transwomen coexisting in a relationship broadcasted on television?" I'm sure there have been many successful relationships of this type because I have seen online accounts of it, but yet the television media seems to want to keep this quiet for some reason. Again I ask, "Why?"
I went to the library two days ago and wanted to do some research on gender identity disorder (the diagnosis that many transgendered people are given in order for society to label our gender diversity as being a psychological problem more than a physical one). I couldn't find any books on my own, so the librarian looked in his computer for any books the library may have had dealing with the subject. He found a few pages in reference books that I would have had to make copies of since those kind of books are forbidden to be checked out. As I looked them over, he also had found five books that I could check out. Out of the five that I brought home, only one actually dealt with gender and not sexual orientation. Of course, it wasn't his fault. He had only looked up what I had asked for, and it was the search that produced these books. My question is, "Why is there so common a misconception among society that gender is connected with sexual orientation to where even when searching for books on gender diversity, one will mostly be directed to books of sexual orientation information?"
I am now reading the one book that has the actual information I sought after, and even in this book alone there are many questions brought up with the one common question. "Why are transwomen so much more hated than transmen (men born in the body of a woman)?", "Why is it that women are more allowed to publicly dress as men than for men to dress publicly as women?", "Why are there so many theories as to why we are what we are?", "Why can't society be more satisfied with gender diversity being a medical disease than to have it listed as a mental disease?", "Why are men and transmen thought only to be cruel and hateful in today's society especially when I know through experience that women can be just as cruel and hateful?", "Why are women and transwomen viewed as unable to be strong enough to protect themselves?", "Why, why, why?" I leave the last three open for any other questions an individual may have that asks the question of why.
As you can see, there truly is just one main question that can ask many more. In closing, I will leave all my readers with one question, "Why can't we all just learn to live as what we feel we are and let others do the same?" Take care and be safe always everyone.

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