Transphobia? Perlease!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-42652947
Would you date a bloke disguised as a woman?

[barney15c]

Its worked all right in Thailand, a whole tourist industry has been built on it!

[ToraToraTora]

yeah but those are poor saps getting conned.

[barney15c]

Who the sex tourists of the lady boys?

[Old_Geezer]

Hardly transphobic to refuse to be homosexual rather than heterosexual. "They" used to joke it would be compulsory one day and now it looks like "they" are trying to make it so. Clearly a Newspeak article.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure it worked to an extent in Thailand. There are all sorts of folk about. The human race is very varied.

[Mamyalynne]

A conversation on Celebrity Big Brother in News - who would have thought it.

[NoMercy]

No I wouldn't, so I guess that makes me a transphobe.

Similarly I wouldn't convert to islam, shameless, irredeemably wicked Islamaphobe that I am.

[douglas9401]

Just when you think it can't get any more weird eh?

I want my old world back.

[maggiebee]

What on earth does "Perlease" mean? Do you ever speak English TTT?

[Prudie]

No I wouldn't but then there are lots of men I wouldn't and I wouldn't want to kiss them either. Does that make me a manphobe?

[youngmafbog]

Of course it's not any 'phobic', if anything rocks your boat then fine but for those it doesn't then then they should not be castegated for it

//What on earth does "Perlease" mean?//

Can you really not work that out ? (psst it means 'please') And do you have an answer to the OP or are you just here to criticise the poster Ingerlish?

[naomi24]

No - and I wouldn't date a woman disguised as a man either.

[kvalidir]

Several factual inaccuracies, a trans woman is not a 'bloke disguised as a woman', it's a person who is now a woman who was born male. I'm not really the person to ask since I'm bisexual but in theory I would have no issue with someone who had gender reassigned.

[gingejbee]

kvalidir...you really can't expect some posters on here to understand the point you made re transgender and disguised etc....apoint I was about to make myself.

[Jackdaw33]

'Perlease' has been around a long time. It is used to express contradiction or disbelief where the speaker emphasises the P, leaving a gap between P and lease, represented by 'er'. The word stands on its own; the inference is obvious.

[andy-hughes]

No I wouldn't date a bloke disguised as a woman, but that's because I wouldn't date a woman in any disguise, because that's dishonest.

But, as advised, that is not what your link is about.

Dating is a personal preference, and if a man chooses not to date a transgender woman, there can be dozens of reasons why he prefers not to date her, which are not linked to her transgender status.

To assume that a man doesn't want to date a woman because she is transgender is looking for a bias which may well not exist. A man may not want to date a transgender woman because she has blue eyes, and he doesn't like blue eyes. The woman may decide that his reluctance is based on her transgender status, but that doesn't mean it is a fact.

As for the Big Brother person, he may not have wished to kiss the transgender woman because he is not attracted to her - again the same scenario applies.

[Old_Geezer]

A transwoman is most certainly not not a person who is now a woman who was born male. By definition one can not change gender. It's this "emperor's new clothes" delusion, that some like to push, that causes a problem. Not everyone wishes to pretend there's been such a change, and find the attempts to persuade them to join in the deception very wrong: they prefer the truth.

[Deskdiary]

I wouldn't date a bloke who now thinks he's a woman because I'm not gay. In my book a bloke who has had a sex change is still a bloke.

Cutting a dog's nuts off doesn't make it a b.i.t.c.h, it makes a dog without nuts.

Some people will hate what I have said, but (a) I couldn't give a tinker's cuss and (b) that's my unswerving feeling on the matter of sex changes.

[Jackdaw33]

My sentiments entirely, DD.

[andy-hughes]

Deskdiary - // I wouldn't date a bloke who now thinks he's a woman because I'm not gay. In my book a bloke who has had a sex change is still a bloke. //

Good job the rest of the world doesn't go by your book then!

//Cutting a dog's nuts off doesn't make it a b.i.t.c.h, it makes a dog without nuts. //

No argument there - but removing a man's testicles doesn't make him a woman either.

If you knew anything at all about gender re-assignment you would know that there are as many variations in terms of re-assignment as there are pebbles on a beach, but none of them would ever claim to change a man into a woman.

Re-assignment surgery is performed on individuals who are not genetically male, to enable them to transition into the correct body form for their actual gender - which is female. If - as you appear to believe, you can change Brian Blessed into Gwyneth Paltrow, then I suggest you educate yourself a little more before pronouncing with such confidence on something you clearly know little about, beyond media stereotyping and basic ignorance of facts.

Some people will hate what I have said, but (a) I couldn't give a tinker's cuss and (b) that's my unswerving feeling on the matter of sex changes.

(a) If your opinion is worth expressing, it's worth noting what people think about it, so obviously you don't care what people trhink, which is fine since ...

(b) Your unswerving feeling is about as accurate as saying that the moon is made of green cheese.