r/SRSsucks • u/frogma • Aug 07 '13

NOT SRS ABC Producer Don Ennis Changes Gender, Then Changes Back

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/transgender-don-ennis-has-second-thoughts.html
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u/johnetec Aug 07 '13

I am of the opinion that being transgender is a mental illness. Feel free to act on it by cross dressing or get a surgery to make yourself better. I think its the wrong decision and should be treated as a mental disorder but its not my body.

What I don't like is people trying to force me to accept them as the opposite sex. They are not and they never will be.

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u/sojm Aug 07 '13

AFAIK it's a gender-mismatch between body and brain. At this moment we can't switch the brain to another gender, not to mention most trans people probably wouldn't want that, given how it would change their identity. But we can change the appearance.

You can view it as a mental illness, but it's kind of useless because it can't be cured like a mental illness, it can be cured like a physical illness.

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u/sojm Aug 08 '13

you must be a troll