So, seems like more and more in this country it’s not about what we are, it’s about what we want to be. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to have dreams. It’s great to strive for change in life, especially positive, progressive change.
The problem is that people want to be something they can never be. Yes, I will go there. No matter how much you want to be a gender that you were not at birth, at the end of the day, you are still genetically that gender. I know that many people who have transitioned can easily pass for their chosen gender. This doesn’t matter—born with a Y chromosone, always have one….at least for now. Who knows what science will be able to do in 50 or 100 years. Born short–you will always be short. Born white, you will be white…..etc, etc, etc….the list goes on.
There is a movement today to let everyone be who they THINK they should be. When did this country or the world for that matter, distance themselves so much from reality? What is wrong with being who you were born? Why can’t you be happy with what you were born with and interpret it in a unique way? People seem to be incredibly unhappy with whatever they were born as. Is this what we teach children nowadays? To be so unhappy with yourself that you would endure hours of painful surgery and recovery and a lifetime of hormone treatments just to be something you think you should be? Why not tell children instead that they can be whoever they want as long as they work with what nature(read God) gave you? Wouldn’t people be a lot happier?
I think TV and the internet to a large extent has totally ruined the idea that you can be OK with yourself. I look in the mirror and see an average person, and I am OK with that. Many people look in the mirror and see someone they are so unhappy with that they mutilate their bodies to become someone else. The problem is that you are still you. That incredible unhappiness is likely to crop back up at some point in your life because what you changed was superficial. You are still you. If you had a Y chromosome, you still do. Live with it.
Now, if you still insist on spending money that most people don’t have to become a dream of yours, that’s your choice, but did you really change anything? Our bodies are really just clothing for our souls. What your body does or does not look like means very little in the long run. We will all get old and crinkly and then what? Oh, I know, people also spend millions trying to cheat old age–won’t work. Nature always has the last say. We all get old and die, unless we die young.
Why not look in the mirror and say, ‘Not perfect, but OK?’ Wouldn’t we all be a little happier? Really don’t listen to the voices outside. People on FaceBook, TV, critics, etc. None of their opinions matter. NONE of them. You can be yourself and still keep what nature gave you. People DIE from plastic surgery. Is it worth it just to LOOK different? Because that’s all it is–a look. Inside you are the same and always will be the same. That’s not a bad thing. Being ashamed of who you are is tragic, really. Being ashamed enough to let someone rearrange your body parts is, in my humble opinion, STUPID.