This implies that being trans is a decision. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to choose whether you have schizophrenia or autism or ADHD too? Do it for attention for a while, mayhaps, and then once it starts getting tiring go back to normal?
Not to mention that being a man automatically means being breadwinners/leaders/whatever is a bit of an outdated way of thinking. Gender equality still has a long way to go, but damn, successful women in stem exist and I would like to think that you can at least choose to become a househusband in this day and age… And if one truly cannot find a woman that wins enough to support both, maybe they can just “choose” to swing the other way? Have you asked your husband if he’s ever thought about doing that? It’d be a very reasonable financial decision, I encourage him to give it a thought.
And it’s not as though being trans is a walk in the park. If one chooses to be trans, they’re going to get a life with far, far more worries than if they’d just stayed as the gender they were assigned at birth. Tons of people who hate them just for existing will appear, and whether they lose the right to exist could change in the future…
it’s only outdated amongst college-educated liberal people, and even then it’s not really.
successful women in stem still want dominant male providers, and very few want househusbands.
the larger world still overwhelming proscribes to traditional gender norms, including in queer communities. especially if you look at their behavior, not their words.
This implies that being trans is a decision. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to choose whether you have schizophrenia or autism or ADHD too? Do it for attention for a while, mayhaps, and then once it starts getting tiring go back to normal?
Not to mention that being a man automatically means being breadwinners/leaders/whatever is a bit of an outdated way of thinking. Gender equality still has a long way to go, but damn, successful women in stem exist and I would like to think that you can at least choose to become a househusband in this day and age… And if one truly cannot find a woman that wins enough to support both, maybe they can just “choose” to swing the other way? Have you asked your husband if he’s ever thought about doing that? It’d be a very reasonable financial decision, I encourage him to give it a thought.
And it’s not as though being trans is a walk in the park. If one chooses to be trans, they’re going to get a life with far, far more worries than if they’d just stayed as the gender they were assigned at birth. Tons of people who hate them just for existing will appear, and whether they lose the right to exist could change in the future…
it’s only outdated amongst college-educated liberal people, and even then it’s not really.
successful women in stem still want dominant male providers, and very few want househusbands.
the larger world still overwhelming proscribes to traditional gender norms, including in queer communities. especially if you look at their behavior, not their words.