The Crying Game / TRANSGENDER DISCUSSION

[Ski at 1SKY6]

It's way more than one state or one person in play here.

Hair0fTheDog, its way, way, more than one state or one person in play here.
As a gay man I have a perspective about gender dysphoria that others might not agree with. I feel Society has pressured gay men and women to hide their true selves and this causes emotional trauma. In the past Society has offered Solutions of shock treatments to make you straight. Some gay people have resorted to getting married to the opposite sex in order to create the illusion of being heterosexual. Some have even believed that by arranging everything externally it will make things change on the inside of their being. As Society changes to accept homosexual love these behaviors are diminishing. Society's acceptance of same sexual orientation has made great progress whereas its acceptance of gender dysphoria still is in the Dark Ages.
When Society stops creating rigid rolls that men and women must play, such as "men don't cry" and we stop dressing "Boys in blue and Girls in pink" and these rolls become more androgynous, and equal, gender dysphoria is destined to become a thing of the past.
I have witnessed firsthand the agony and distress an individual close to me has gone through with gender dysphoria and it's my firm belief that it is created by Society and its remedies are external of the individual and and not incumbent upon the individual to appease Society by making changes to their physical form.