If a transgender guy becomes a female and likes a guy, is he technically considered as gay or straight?
Innocent curiosity. Apology in advance if I offended anyone🙏
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Footsugar123 · M
Gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same. Transgender people may be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer. For example, a person who transitions from male to female and is attracted solely to men would typically identify as a straight woman.
@Footsugar123 Are hippopotamuses. considered furries?
Footsugar123 · M
@puck61 Transgender people may be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or asexual, just as nontransgender people can be. Some recent research has shown that a change or a new exploration period in partner attraction may occur during the process of transition. However, transgender people usually remain as attached to loved ones after transition as they were before transition. Transgender people usually label their sexual orientation using their gender as a reference. For example, a transgender woman, or a person who is assigned male at birth and transitions to female, who is attracted to other women would be identified as a lesbian or gay woman. Likewise, a transgender man, or a person who is assigned female at birth and transitions to male, who is attracted to other men would be identified as a gay man. From the American psychological Association.
To anwser your question no hippopotamuses aren't. But they could be some where down the evolutionary line.
To anwser your question no hippopotamuses aren't. But they could be some where down the evolutionary line.
The [quote] American psychological Association.[/quote] also promotes the idea that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation, and pedos should be called "minor attracted persons" so as to avoid negative stigma,....
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness that causes emotional pain and suicide, and yet these educated idiots insist on normalizing it.
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness that causes emotional pain and suicide, and yet these educated idiots insist on normalizing it.
Footsugar123 · M
There were revisions made
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/
I don't know about the pedophile remark but I will certainly look and see what it says.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/
I don't know about the pedophile remark but I will certainly look and see what it says.
@Footsugar123 Revisions can be dumb. This one is. It has not changed the disproportionate suicide rate among those who suffer from gender dysphoria. It's like the AMA saying Tuberculosis is no longer a disease.
Footsugar123 · M
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Did a TEDx Speaker Say Pedophilia Is an ‘Unchangeable Sexual Orientation’?
A TEDx talk broadcast from Germany prompted widespread controversy over the speaker's comments about the nature of pedophilia.
BETHANIA PALMA
PUBLISHED 26 JULY 2018
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On 5 May 2018, the University of Würzburg in Germany held an event with the theme of “Future Societys” [sic] that featured Mirjam Heine, a medical student who gave what would become a controversial presentation on the subject of “Why our perception of pedophilia has to change.”
In her talk, Heine told the story of a 19-year-old Jonas, a Munich law student who is sexually attracted to girls aged six to 12 years old. “But since he’s aware of the consequences for the children, he has never given in to his sexual drive.” She cited the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD 10) for the description of pedophilia as the “sexual preference for preadolescent children” and pointed to unspecified research that differentiates between child sexual abusers and pedophiles.
Heine’s most controversial comments rocketed across the Internet when websites ran reports of them under headlines such as “TEDx Speaker: Pedophilia Is an Unchangeable Orientation,” which led some viewers to believe Heine had condoned “an illegal and harmful practice.” Although Heine did make a comment about pedophilia’s being an “unchangeable sexual orientation,” it was offered in a fuller context which we’ve transcribed here:
Let me very clear here. Abusing children is wrong without any doubt. But a pedophile who doesn’t abuse children has done nothing wrong. I want to quickly summarize where we are at the moment. According to current research, pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation, just like for example heterosexuality. No one chooses to be a pedophile. No one can cease being one. The difference between pedophilia and other sexual orientations is that living out this sexual orientation will end in a disaster.
Pedophilia is not defined by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a sexual orientation: it is classified as a disorder in the fifth and most current revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5). Discussions that attempt to equate pedophilia with sexual orientation have been contentious, primarily because of the false belief that members of the LGBT community are predisposed to child molestation. Those who argue against civil rights for the LGBT community often cast those rights as a slippery slope to legalizing child sexual abuse or bestiality.
I understand where you are coming from. From my stand point the medical boards are splitting hairs with them trying to put everything in it own category. It's necessary though because of how it pushing some people into it that doesn't belong, I can say one thing. This world is heading for hell at the rate its going. I read a article about schools in California teaching pedophilia as a sexual orientation like any other because it was done in history. Making it seem like it was ok for anyone to have sex with children. I couldn't hardly believe it. My opinion about California went down hill to the gutter.
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Did a TEDx Speaker Say Pedophilia Is an ‘Unchangeable Sexual Orientation’?
A TEDx talk broadcast from Germany prompted widespread controversy over the speaker's comments about the nature of pedophilia.
BETHANIA PALMA
PUBLISHED 26 JULY 2018
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On 5 May 2018, the University of Würzburg in Germany held an event with the theme of “Future Societys” [sic] that featured Mirjam Heine, a medical student who gave what would become a controversial presentation on the subject of “Why our perception of pedophilia has to change.”
In her talk, Heine told the story of a 19-year-old Jonas, a Munich law student who is sexually attracted to girls aged six to 12 years old. “But since he’s aware of the consequences for the children, he has never given in to his sexual drive.” She cited the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD 10) for the description of pedophilia as the “sexual preference for preadolescent children” and pointed to unspecified research that differentiates between child sexual abusers and pedophiles.
Heine’s most controversial comments rocketed across the Internet when websites ran reports of them under headlines such as “TEDx Speaker: Pedophilia Is an Unchangeable Orientation,” which led some viewers to believe Heine had condoned “an illegal and harmful practice.” Although Heine did make a comment about pedophilia’s being an “unchangeable sexual orientation,” it was offered in a fuller context which we’ve transcribed here:
Let me very clear here. Abusing children is wrong without any doubt. But a pedophile who doesn’t abuse children has done nothing wrong. I want to quickly summarize where we are at the moment. According to current research, pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation, just like for example heterosexuality. No one chooses to be a pedophile. No one can cease being one. The difference between pedophilia and other sexual orientations is that living out this sexual orientation will end in a disaster.
Pedophilia is not defined by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a sexual orientation: it is classified as a disorder in the fifth and most current revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5). Discussions that attempt to equate pedophilia with sexual orientation have been contentious, primarily because of the false belief that members of the LGBT community are predisposed to child molestation. Those who argue against civil rights for the LGBT community often cast those rights as a slippery slope to legalizing child sexual abuse or bestiality.
I understand where you are coming from. From my stand point the medical boards are splitting hairs with them trying to put everything in it own category. It's necessary though because of how it pushing some people into it that doesn't belong, I can say one thing. This world is heading for hell at the rate its going. I read a article about schools in California teaching pedophilia as a sexual orientation like any other because it was done in history. Making it seem like it was ok for anyone to have sex with children. I couldn't hardly believe it. My opinion about California went down hill to the gutter.