Is the definition of transgender being watered down for political and not medical reasons?

[DrZoidberg]

No, it doesn't. It requires less thought. A thing you before needed to worry about, you now don't.

But...Wait...How can I judge someone for their lifestyle choices that way?

I'm convinced that's what it's all about. It's just a tool with which to disprove one another. People need to worry less about others and more about themselves. Introspection is hard enough as it is without adding a bunch of irrelevant bullshit on top of it.

 

[DrZoidberg]

When I was younger and saw a person of unclear gender I would get a control freak mindset and have to know what sex are you?!? I would not ask the person, but it would be in my mind.

Is this a culture bound thing or a primate thing?

I think it's a primate thing. There's tonnes of studies and theories on it. But all non-postmodernist-feminist thinkers agree there's a difference. I think it's linked to reproduction. Most men are unnecessary. That's just a fact. So men have to work really hard to become necessary. That's helped shape our bodies and behaviour. Because most men are unnecessary there's a greater pay off to take risks. Or rather people with more male traits.

But human perception is lazy. We like to take shortcuts and put things into boxes based on superficial traits. So we appreciate when people make an effort to help us put them into a box. If almost everybody is doing it, we can start to panic when something doesn't feel right. It really doesn't take much to jinx us.

I recently worked with a huge team of Indians. Everyday they did something weird (by my standards) that completely threw me, breaking my piece of mind. Wasn't their fault. They were just doing the stuff they normally do. The problem was on my end. So I kept my trap shut about it. And that's the attitude we need to have about trans people. The fact that we get thrown off balance, no matter how much is stresses us, it's not their problem, it's all our problem. And if we behave weird around them because of it, we should explain that it does and apologise. It's not nice treating weird people like they're weird. They get that shit all day anyway. We can be that one person who makes and effort, and make their day. And that goes for all non-normal behaviour we come across.