>>104008362>African Americans have it kind of easy compared to transgender folk>The differently-abled have it kind of easy compared to transgender folkI had always suspected that the transgender community might be narcissistic and self-pitying enough to genuinely believe something like this, but I have never heard someone explicitly say it until now.
It seems to just re-affirm my other suspicion: that there is something fundamentally wrong with the transgender community (and perhaps the transgender movement) as a whole. Yes, their suicide rates are higher than those of any other community in the U.S. But that can't possibly be because their lives are harder than everyone else's. It can't. You look at the African-American community, or the community of virtually any third-world country, and their suicide rates aren't even nearly as high. You can't tell me that's because the people in those communities somehow have it easier. There must be something wrong with the transgender people themselves to be offing themselves like that.
I don't know. I'm a liberal, so I don't like feeling things that might be "prejudiced." Truth is, I used to be a full-fledged supporter of the transgender movement, and I've been second-guessing my own motivations ever since I left .
But the change has come from meeting actual transgender people: I've never met someone with gender dysphoria who did not also have serious psychological issues. I've never met a transgender person who did not have deep emotional problems that were completely unrelated to their identity. I've met plenty of gay guys who were totally normal, and plenty of cross-dressers who were perfectly fine, but I've never met a completely sane FtM or MtF.
It's that, along with all the other ideological inconsistencies (e.g. how can you _know_ you were born in the wrong body, how can you be born the wrong gender if "gender is a social construct" etc.) that has led me to seriously question the movement.
