Originally posted by Gocka
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I travel quite a bit. Only in Thailand have I seen transgender people so widely accepted. Over there, if a man seeks to be a woman, they will be treated as females, take on the female Thai language, go into female toilets and be widely accepted for what they want to be. It is where they want to be and nobody seems to kick up a fuss. However, if they do anything illegal, they will end up getting their heads shaved and sent to a man's prison.
This is without a doubt the most tolerant society in relation to this gender issue that I am aware of and it still fails to work in a utopian way. The reason is that transgenderism is yet another societal aberration.
Their faith tells them they might reincarnate a different way next time, so nothing is final in this regard. They are accepted and deal with it yet still end up dying earlier and being miserable in their older years. It's part and parcel of being on the fringe and no matter what society does for them, they will remain on the fringe. It simply does not work well and I don't think society has a duty to normalise every departure form normality and nor should it seek to persecute every departure. It remains a pendulum but one that should not have too much swing.
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