Brianna Wu
Neil, people like you putting my humanity on trial all day, every day hurt me. Transition did not. It saved my life. I was a drug addicted, extremely depressed shut in before transition. Today, I am a national figure that cannot say yes to half the work I’m offered. Anyone that knows me, literally anyone, can clearly see I am the person I’m supposed to be. There’s no version of me living as a man that makes sense.
neil chernoff
That is a very interesting question and I certainly do not have an answer. Ask yourself how you would react to the following. A teenager comes to a doctor and says, I identify as blind. I would like you to perform blind affirming surgery on me (simple painless process with lasers). I need it now before I become too dependent on sight to live my life independently as a blind person. What do you think about that? Is the person harming themselves from having the surgery? Would it matter if the person was an adult? My own perspective on this might be different if it was a one off case. If that person and others were evangelizing this to others, I would feel differently. If a good percentage of TV shows and movies I saw suddenly started including trans-blind people I would be bothered. I do not have an answer for you. That is for you to determine for yourself. You made your own choice and you seem happy with it. So that should put it to bed. But my own feelings about transsexuality more generally are being strongly influenced in a negative way by the trans-evangelists and how vociferous they are. I think you have been making a similar point.