The TG thing still seems to be too immature in its handling of the complexities and complications it creates. It (it being the issues of the movement) still hovers around the gendered bathroom issue. You have young women warned about rape and somewhat indoctrinated into a fear of male sexuality. You then try to push for TG-sensitive bathrooms where you have males going into Women's restrooms. You can't just throw those two things together and tell everyone to shutup and understand.
I've also seen people start mixing gender and sex when the two are separate things. There are regions of the world where there are three genders. We have the TG movement because of our binary gender culture. Transgendered is not a universal thing. The whole LGBT movement isn't really universal. In regions of the world where there's a third or multiple genders to account for males who identify with a feminine identity and who seek males romantically, the relationship is still somewhat Boy/Girl in its viewing and not a gay/homosexual relationship in an American understanding of those words.
So I never understood why we don't just expand our gender understandings instead of deciding to chop our dicks off because you/I/we think "female". And by god, there's the other weird half. This supposes that there are female mental states and male mental states. This supposes significant mental differences between sexes that need to be aligned via surgical matters for the sake of the patient.
So the TG argument seems to ask that others accept the idea that men and women do think differently and are biologically wired in their brain a different way. It also then asks that gender and sex needs to be aligned surgically for the health of the person. I am not exactly sure either of those things are correct, both in my experience and in the eyes of science.
Here Chaz Bono tries to explain it to Letterman, but it really doesn't get explained. Chaz tries to explain sexuality as who you are attracted to, but then later qualifies it as the sex of the person and the sex of what you're attracted to. In a first world sense, sexuality is judged by the sexes of the two involved. So it's weird when Chaz says he made the mistake of thinking he was a lesbian, because the truth was she was a lesbian at the time. It can't be both the ways that Chaz speaks of it as. At least in a cultural sense.
And then there's the nonsense of where Chaz speaks about becoming more aggressive and forceful since the transition to being male, as though being a jackass is part of being male. So it's that gender stereotypes as real truths mentality that disturbs me. Not that Chaz speaks for the whole movement, but the interview reflects the way the whole thing is a mess of contradictions that seem to get passed over with a gay pride flag waved back and forth.
