Sorry, but you are born that way. It isn't a thing you can change by dressing up like a woman. Or even by cutting off your man bits and molding your flesh to look like a woman's. You can't change it just by "Feeling" like a woman either. *Whatever the hell that means.* Some things just are what they are.
I wanted to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle when I was a kid I even had a costume for it. But it didn't make me any more teenage, mutant, ninja or turtle. And while some people played along and called me Leonardo when i wore it that didn't make me a teenage mutant ninja turtle either.
It was pretend and everyone knew it, more importantly, I knew it too. If I went around telling everyone that i really was a teenage mutant ninja turtle, eventually someone probably my parents would have said "Look it is cute you want to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle but it is time for you to take of the costume, put on real clothes and go to school." Essentially playtime is over. It isn't healthy to run around pretending to be something you are not. In addition it is immature and rude to expect other people to treat you like something you aren't just because you want them to.
Now some of you might think I'm just an evil hatemonger, but how about you withhold judgement for a minute and let me make my point here. I'm white as the day is long, but what if tomorrow i decided to put on black face, claim to be trans racial and went and tried to join the NAACP? wait that's offensive to you? yeah its offensive to me too. How is that any different from what Bruce is doing?
Oh and all of a sudden he is so brave, lets give him an Arthur Ashe bravery award. FOR WHAT? Dressing up like a woman and referring to himself as she instead of he? That is what passes for bravery now a days? Being willing to take the derision of people who rightly say "no you aren't a girl just because you dress up like one" isn't bravery. I call bullshit. Real bravery still exists, this isn't what it looks like.
But hey you know what he is a grown man, if he wants to dress up like a woman go ahead. If he wants to pretend and the people around him are willing to indulge his fantasy great. But lets be clear here, if i DON'T want to indulge him that doesn't make me an asshole or a hate monger. In fact I think him and everyone else that expects me to acknowledge this lie as the truth is an asshole.
Bottom line, no one has the right to dictate reality to me. You have the freedom to dress up like a woman, people around you have the right to choose to treat you like one, *or not*. That is their right. What bothers me is when the gov't or a special interest group decides that i no longer have the right to call a spade a spade. I have to accept their version of reality because that is what is politically correct or what is double plus good. How long until they start asking us to accept other falsehoods like the federal gov't has to violate our basic rights in order to protect us from ourselves? Or that the war in Iraq was to prevent terrorism? Oh wait.
It is important that the people be allowed to say so when the emperor isn't wearing clothes.
You know what Bruce Jenner, really you do whatever you want. Frankly i don't care that you dress up like a woman. I don't care that you really think you are a woman. You and I will likely never ever meet. But if we do i will call you by whatever name you want because frankly my problem isn't with you specifically. It is with an establishment that wants to replace truth with lies just because it will make some people feel better about lying to themselves.
