Posted on 02/17/2014 8:43:17 PM PST by Seizethecarp
A flap erupted between writer and trans activist Janet Mock and CNN host Piers Morgan last week after Mock appeared on Morgan’s show to promote her memoir, “Redefining Realness.” Morgan repeatedly asserted that Mock had been “born a boy” or that she “used to be a man.” After her appearance, Mock expressed her disappointment on Twitter.
Morgan invited Mock on his show a second time, where he vociferously defended himself as an ally of LGBT rights, and demanded that Mock explain what he’d done wrong. He said that Mock’s supporters had “abused” and “vilified” him by calling him out on Twitter.
There were several problems with the language Morgan used. For starters, he repeatedly asserted that Mock had formerly been a boy. He also said that Mock had surgery to become a woman. Mock was a woman long before she had the surgery she felt she needed to reflect that. Part of the fight for transgender rights and justice is a fight for self-determination: to be able to proclaim who you are without anyone else adding caveats.
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Yep, can’t change what God intended you to be no matter how Satan has decieved you.
You know, when I was a kid, I had a temporary delusion that I was a dog, but I grew out of that stupid idea, and didn’t need steroids and surgery to treat it. Same thing with thinking I was an ape.
A funny side to this story is that the woman herself presented male for a significant part of her life.
If you had met her then, you’d have called her a man, and she would have agreed.
SO I guess she was also a bigoted hater.
He admits he was a man, and he chose to have surgeries to make him “appear” as a woman, but he’s still a man. Nothing about him being a hermaphodite. Thanks for playing, please try again
The question was not about that person. The question was how your remarks would differ if and when the person happened to be an hermaphrodite.
It’s not the issue at hand. If you want to have a discussion about Hermaphrodites, post an article about them and start a discussion. Personally I don’t care.
So the real issue at hand is the man who chooses to change his physical appearance but it never changed who he really is
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