Quote:If transgendered people are mentally ill (which they aren't), most are some of the most functional mentally ill people you'll ever meet. The only thing keeping them from meshing seamlessly with society is the uninformed, bigoted attitudes they encounter.

I think mentally I'll is the wrong term, and it's one I've used in the past. I think transgender people suffer from an identity loss which isn't the same as a mental illness. My views have kind of changed on the topic working with a transgender female that identifies as a male outside of work. Obviously she's gay but her partner says she's not gay that she is a he and when they call work asks for her by the male name. We've actually become pretty good friends and there is no way Id consider her mentally ill like you pointed out She's an intelligent fully functioning adult. But she is confused perhaps it has more to do with society's normal male and female personification of a couple and being gay she takes the assumption of the male role fully? I don't know but she's not mentally ill, she is confusing as hell however.


From what I've gathered in our conversations she obviously knows she's not a male, she does over compensate sometimes because she wants to be treated as a male and you can imagine the atmosphere in an automotive shop. While phisically she's unable to do some jobs for the most part she's pretty damn good in the shop.


I've asked her why she has a male personality outside of work because I've known other lesbians but never known one that had a different name and everything she says it's more for her girlfriend that doesn't consider herself lesbian? I dunno it's all confusing to me, but I have to retract my statements there mentally I'll earlier. Confused I think so but not ill, to say their ill sounds like I'm calling them [BLEEP] which isn't my implication.

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