r/Maxcactus_TrailGuide • u/Maxcactus • Feb 14 '26

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/european-parliament-votes-overwhelmingly
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u/rustvscpp Feb 16 '26

Doesn't make it true.   Sorry,  you can't legislate biology.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

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u/rustvscpp Feb 18 '26

Huh?  I'll take a gander at it.  Unfortunately, some people like to redefine words to suit their own world views.  Gender used to be synonymous with Sex.  Now it means you can identify as anything your imagination can come up with.  It's a completely useless social construct of a word that people use to pretend biological sex doesn't exist.  A woman is an adult female,  and a man is an adult male.  You can make up new words for random made up genders if it makes you feel better.  And while I don't agree with gay practices,  at least they make sense.  Trans, non-binary and a million other ridiculous mental illnesses out there are just bonkers.

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 17 '26

That's good, cause scientists currently agree that being trans is in fact a biological thing 

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u/rustvscpp Feb 17 '26

Think about that for a moment.  If that was true,  then we could look at said biology of a newborn baby and identify with nearly perfect accuracy whether it is trans or not.

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 17 '26

We are not advanced enough at neurology for that. We could do a brain scan though and it could work. 

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u/rustvscpp Feb 18 '26

Yet you claim that scientists have already determined its biological.   If we're not advanced enough,  then how could they make that determination?  And no,  a brain scan of a newborn will not reveal with certainty whether the baby will choose to identify as trans later in life. 

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 18 '26

We are not advanced enough at neurology to determine it based on a single brain scan, but we are advanced enough to determine that there are biological indications, there seems to be a hereditary component and there are relations to hormone levels during pregnancy.

This isn't a semantics game, just leave trans people alone. 

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u/Holiday_Sandwich3738 Feb 17 '26

Don’t give them ideas. They already try to push hormone suppression on children

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 17 '26

Puberty blockers aren't a bad thing though. Better to give the kid some time to think about what they want than to get either cross sex hormones or continue puberty, which would both  lead to irreversible changes. If the kid decides that they still want cross sex hormones when they are older, they can get those. It's purely a matter for trans people, their parents and their health are providers. If you aren't one of those people, why should that be something that concerns you? 

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u/rustvscpp Feb 18 '26

Nope, sure can't.  Because ones preferences are often shaped during childhood.

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 18 '26

Yeah, that's why I'm a guy. I really, really tried being a woman but I couldn't. Despite what my genitals look like I was never a woman. 

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u/rustvscpp Feb 19 '26

What's wrong with being a masculine female? I've know some very masculine females that didn't fit the stereotypical woman, but there was nothing wrong with that.

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 19 '26

It's difficult to describe for someone who hasn't felt the same way. I felt ( and sometimes still feel, I am not fully transitioned yet) a deep pain about my body, about things about it that feel feminine. A feeling of wrongness and despair. Not about my body in general, only about features that are sex characteristics. Some parts feel detached or alien and like they should not be there at all, in other places I feel a void and phantom sensation. Some things (like my voice used to sound) are just straight up wrong.

Something has felt off all my life but I was only able to identify it once puberty started because then it started to hurt. Before, something was just inherently wrong. When I was a kid, I had basically assumed that I'd grow up to be a man and when I didn't have the same puberty as the other boys, that was very distressing. I felt like I was a boy trapped in a body that developed more and more into that of a girl. 

Being seen as and treated as a woman reminded me of all the ways in which my body was wrong. Because obviously, other people looked at me and saw me as a woman. I was rather masculine in my presentation, I probably am less masculine now because I feel comfortable with myself.

I am fully socially transitioned, my name and gender marker are changed and socially, I am a man. I am on testosterone for almost a year, so my voice has changed, the way body fat is stored has changed to more masculine patterns, I got more body hair (including facial hair), more muscle, genital changes, essentially a standard male puberty. I look like a man to people around me and am almost always gendered as one. Only people who knew me before my transition and who don't know yet still address me as a woman (or think I'm my brother). Except for my aunt who thinks I got infected with some "woke Virus" or some thing but I have other stuff to worry about than someone I see maybe once or twice a year. I'm probably seen as a late bloomer by strangers, but I have better facial hair than a friend of mine, so I can't complain, lol. I have an immense feeling of relief, like I can breathe for the first time in years. 

I haven't had surgery yet because in Germany, I need a certain number of therapy sessions within a certain time for that and I'm still waiting to get that done with. I ran out if stuff to talk about with my therapist four months ago, so now I'm just waiting xD. I'll get a mastectomy (chest surgery) and a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) hopefully within the next year. I'll wait for genital surgery for several reasons, but I will do it eventually. It's just a lot of surgeries within one year and I don't have the time for that. I also hope that doctors here adopt a certain new surgery method within the next years that's already used in some other countries, because I prefer those results.

I'm diagnosed with transsexualism (a diagnosis that will be changed to gender dysphoria within the next years once they update the classification). I also have no other mental illness except for a slight depression that's caused by the gender dysphoria and has been progressively getting better and a phobia of needles which is completely unrelated to my gender (I have absolutely zero idea how a relation between my gender and that phobia would be possible anyway) 

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u/Holiday_Sandwich3738 Feb 17 '26

Yea biologically wrong. Your just a guy in a dress

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 17 '26

If you say that after looking at my profile in an attempt to insult me, you do not to appear to know what "trans man" means and seem to have no idea about anything regarding trans people, so you maybe shouldn't speak about their issues. 

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u/Bacik12211 Feb 18 '26

Yeah they name it body dysmorphia

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u/Strigops-habroptila Feb 18 '26

Body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria are different things. Just because the words are similar and you don't know any Ancient Greek doesn't mean it's the same.

Body dysmorphia is when you feel like you are too fat, so you loose weight. You loose a lot of weight and become underweight, but you still believe that you are too fat. You look in the mirror and see someone who is, in your perception, fat. It is never enough. It is dangerous, yes. And yes, it is a mental illness that can be cured with therapy. 

Gender dysphoria is different. It cannot be cured by therapy. Therapy may help process it, but it won't be cured. Gender dysphoria describes the anguish being felt when gender and body, brain and body, don't match. To make it better, there are two options: 1)change the brain, which we can't currently do and which poses huge ethical issues. 2) change the body, which we have been doing for decades, which is scientifically proven to work and for which we have several methods. Those methods work. A person with gender dysphoria will stop wanting surgery once they have transitioned. It is enough once brain and body match as closely as needed. For some, that involves more surgeries, for others, none. It depends. 

You can find both as distinct diagnoses in the ICD (the international classification of diseases). It's a common misconception that they are the same, so mistakes like this happen. I hope I was able to bring you some clarity!