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Richard_Feynman on 06 September 2014
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Ninsect said:
prayformojo said:
Ninsect said:

I was looking through the profile settings page and saw no option to change your (profile) gender.

As an example, let's say I was a biological man who signed up as a confused kid 5 years ago but slowly grew into the idea that I was a woman in a man's body. Naturally I would like to change my VGC gender as well, but as far as I'm aware, VGC does not allow that. 

We're already this far into the 21st century. Isn't it time to embrace reality already, VGC?

There is no such thing, biologically speaking, as a "transsexual" or "transgender". You're born either a man or women and no amount of surgery will ever change that. A man can not have working ovaries and a women can not have a pair of working testicals/sperm. 

That is your opinion. Not a respectful one, but an opinion nonetheless. What decides what makes a man and what makes a woman? The ability to procreate like your respective gender OR, more importantly, your own mind/feelings telling you what you are? Sure, they might not look 100% like the gender they are but we can say the same thing about men and women in general, nobody looks alike.

Using your definition you could say middle aged women and above are not women...


Using your logic there should be an option for transspecies persons as well.

Your saying that there is nothing fundamental about one's gender. Your saying it is a violation of human rights that a small videogame website - and by extension the whole world - is not constantly vigilant to never imply this fundamental aspect of the reality of human life. Why stop there? What if I'm oriental but want to be white? Or Arab and want to be Hispanic? This must then surely extend to race as well?

Why stop there. Age is also nothing "real", because I (hypothetically) decide so right now and want to be a 23 year old forever.

"Using your definition you could say middle aged women and above are not women..."

I don't think you can in any way come to that conclusion from his statement.

In my opinion your whole intention is fraught with considerations that simply do not serve humanity as a whole. Surely it is not such a dramatic statement to say that it is normal for a human being to accept his own biology? There have always, and will always, been people outide societal norms, but does that really mean that 99.99% of humans must change their societal norms to accomodate them? What's next? Shameless promotion of changing one's sexual orientation?

It would be easiest for everyone if they just accepted that human beings as a whole will never accept such things as normal. This my bother some people, but there are always things that bother some people.