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almost 9 years

With all the coverage on TV and online recently, I just wanted to ask you guys a question - would you date a transgender person? Reasoning is cool, saying yes or no is cool, just don't put any dumb in the comments

Yea or naw?

Yes

I'm not sure

Only if they were a perfect 10

Peta

almost 9 years

Devante says

i wouldn't date tumblr activists

Me neither.

Devante

almost 9 years

i wouldn't date tumblr activists

Peta

almost 9 years

Devante says

so then all people who are homosexual, and claim to only be able to date their own s3x would also date someone from the opposite s3x?

Yep, sure.

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

Escurai says

I don't get this "conflict" you're talking about :|

Ignore me I'm lashing out at certain Tumblrites that presented me with what I'm telling you a few years ago when I brought up the same issue.

Peta

almost 9 years

Edark says

Peta says

But I can't accept the idea that (a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.

Why cant you accept these 2 ideas? Are you just making some sort of probability argument or are you arguing that heterosexuality is a choice?

I'm saying that gender is a glorified deal breaker. It's a big enough deal for people to use labels like gay/straight/bi/whatever, whereas we lack concise labels for "dater only of non-tattooed people" or "dater only of people with a college degree," but really the matter of whether or not you'd date someone of a certain gender falls under the same umbrella category as these things. And I probably can't prove it, but I think it's the human condition to discover and reserve exceptions, for oneself, to all deal breakers. I used to loathe tattoos because I was raised by WASP-y Americans. Then I met someone with tattoos and I realized that that's a ridiculous reason to rule out someone to whom you're really attracted. Obviously gender preference is a much bigger deal than tattoos, it's genetically ingrained, etc., but I don't see any reason to think it's set in stone. Heterosexuality isn't a choice, but it's also not an immutable law.

Edark

almost 9 years

I dont get how you can argue that a) Homosexuality isnt a choice while also saying that b) you're transphobic if you're certain that you will never date a transperson due to their physical differences of the real deal

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

Uranus says

Wait so you're saying people who would decline to date a transgender person are transphobic?

Ask Strider, I didn't make the rule.

Escurai

almost 9 years

I don't get this "conflict" you're talking about :|

Uranus

almost 9 years

UniversalStudios says

Escurai says

People can agree with the choice to change gender without necessarily wanting that in their own relationships

There is a conflict here, you're just not willing to acknowledge it.

Wait so you're saying people who would decline to date a transgender person are transphobic?

Devante

almost 9 years

UniversalStudios says

Escurai says

People can agree with the choice to change gender without necessarily wanting that in their own relationships

There is a conflict here, you're just not willing to acknowledge it.

there isn't one, don't be dumb

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

Uranus

almost 9 years

I date because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

Escurai says

People can agree with the choice to change gender without necessarily wanting that in their own relationships

There is a conflict here, you're just not willing to acknowledge it.

Devante

almost 9 years

Peta says

Edark says

Peta says

You can logically reduce the question to "Would you decline to date someone you'd otherwise want to date due to some such attribute about which you may or may not harbor (subdued) phobic thoughts?" and anyone who says yes is a giant jerk.

Well this question implies that the person have undergone surgery I assume?

Nah.

I couldn't care less if you call yourself straight - I do - but I really think that the label of heterosexuality means that you're generally - even 99.99999% of the time, but NOT universally - attracted to women, not men. But I can't accept the idea that (a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.

so then all people who are homosexual, and claim to only be able to date their own s3x would also date someone from the opposite s3x?

or does this theory only fit to those who claim to be straight

xela

almost 9 years

Peta says

If you only date for marriage then you're kinda weird. If you say you date for the purpose of reproduction then you're just lying.

what

Escurai

almost 9 years

UniversalStudios says

Then the question is "why wouldn't you want to date a transexual" and the answer conflict with "agreeing with transexual lifestyle".

People can agree with the choice to change gender without necessarily wanting that in their own relationships

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

So does that homosexual moderator trolling this thread in order to make sure no transexuals are harmed in the posts.

Edark

almost 9 years

Peta says

But I can't accept the idea that (a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.

Why cant you accept these 2 ideas? Are you just making some sort of probability argument or are you arguing that heterosexuality is a choice?

Peta

almost 9 years

UniversalStudios says

Peta says

(a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.

Communion doesn't have to be sexual.

I agree!

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

Peta says

(a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.

Communion doesn't have to be sexual.

Peta

almost 9 years

lol

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

It's called celibacy.

Peta

almost 9 years

UniversalStudios says

Peta says

You can logically reduce the question to "Would you decline to date someone you'd otherwise want to date due to some such attribute about which you may or may not harbor (subdued) phobic thoughts?" and anyone who says yes is a giant jerk.

As someone that plans to marry the next person he has sex with this is unequivocally false because being able to reproduce is a key factor in being a female.

You plan to marry the next person you have sex with?

Peta

almost 9 years

Edark says

Peta says

You can logically reduce the question to "Would you decline to date someone you'd otherwise want to date due to some such attribute about which you may or may not harbor (subdued) phobic thoughts?" and anyone who says yes is a giant jerk.

Well this question implies that the person have undergone surgery I assume?

Nah.

I couldn't care less if you call yourself straight - I do - but I really think that the label of heterosexuality means that you're generally - even 99.99999% of the time, but NOT universally - attracted to women, not men. But I can't accept the idea that (a) there is not a single person of your gender whom you'd date and (b) it's actually impossible as a matter of theory for there to exist someone of your gender whom you'd date.

UniversalStudios

almost 9 years

Escurai says

Not wanting to date someone and not agreeing with the transsexual lifestyle are two very different things

Then the question is "why wouldn't you want to date a transexual" and the answer conflict with "agreeing with transexual lifestyle".