AMA: I am a seventeen, soon to be eighteen trans woman who is going to be having GRS later this year

I’m just curious about your answer to the second question. So it’s your belief that it’s offensive to pretend to be a race different than your own, but not offensive to pretend to be a gender other than your own? This sounds like cherry picking to me, in that you’re not applying a set of ethics across the board, but rather picking and choosing when to apply those ethics when it best suits you.

Also, in response to your answer to question 3, I think your defense of gender affirmation surgery on the grounds that it will not affect your general productivity is quite misplaced. I strongly urge you to research the complications that are quite common with gender affirmation surgery, as well as the increased risk of cancer and other serious problems that will occur as a result of hormone therapy.

I think your responses to the other questions display an activist mentality that totally disregards societally held beliefs. For example, reducing the idea that finding identity through being a mother is simply defining women by their reproductive organs is a very naive world view, but one that I would expect from a 17 year old. Most women find their identity through motherhood, and that’s something you will discover later in life when you want to start a family.

Anyway I wish you the best, you’ve got a long and very painful road ahead of you.

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