Well I am not an American, so maybe its one of those things where you have to be there to see it but I think America is doing awesomely and better today than the past. So is this like all the Americas or just the United States of America? I can be a bit muddled when it comes to that part of the world and its labels and place names, but if we are talking about the former then I hear plenty of awesome things/studies/papers about Canada on a regular basis involving equality, freedoms, opportunity, and treatment of its people. The US continues to produce some of the most critically minded, intelligent, scientifically literate thinkers around and many are beginning to be treated as more important than movie and music celebrities, which is is a great trend that I hope continues. Attitudes about countries aside its also base human nature to focus on the negatives of a situation and idealize the past. Not many people who make assertions about the quality of a modern country and its decline tend to establish points of reference and they are usually surprised when all the objective data and information points towards positives. The cry of the declination of quality is hence also characteristics of generations and individuals jaded ad cynical about select and particular incidents without appreciating much of the circumstance leading to such incident in the first place. Usually the assertion or accusation is also founded by a highly subjective personal sense which disqualifies in actual meaning in the assertion or accusation since its a reoccurring assertion and accusation that individuals and generations are prone to making without actual objective reasoning or criteria. Which is to say I can empathize with people who feel things are getting worse, but also depending on what you mean? Chances are things are actually getting better. Usually the difference and disparity there is prioritizing thinking knowing and understanding better over feeling better.
Hello there. I was curious as to how you define and decide who is a man and who is a woman? As far as your statement about a man being born a man and a woman being born a woman being a woman? Are you referring to sex chromosomes? External physical genitals? What about countries that have more than two genders?
Also if you have time what do you mean by normal? How do you define what is normal and not normal? Schizophrenia is considered a disorder because it - in a general sense hinders and interrupts the thought processes of an individual. Its not usually not beneficial in any sense for the person. As a parallel one could suppose that being schizophrenic isn't normal by virtue of "normal" and typical brain functioning and processing being considered beneficial but the actual emphasis should really be about the benefit of the person as opposed to applying the labels of what is normal and not normal in a subjective sense. Hence why schizophrenia is something that is attempted to be prevented and managed. This is significantly different to transgender people, as their brain processes aren't interrupted or hindered. Usually the only actual detriments or adverse effects, processes are subjective and societally constructed. That and there are many many benefits that come with a person having a sense of value about being themselves and comfortable in their body. Thus its not really about accepting as normal or not, but accepting and understanding in general and having a good understanding and sense of what is actually normal and not normal and what society and people project as normal or not normal, often typically this is done rather subjectively. Like to use your parallel again, since many people misunderstand or are ignorant about human biology, gender and sex in the scientific sense and societally constructed sense and just general xenophobia and why and how it happens, many people can feel that there is something mentally or physically wrong with those that challenge what their idea and understanding of what normal is. Throughout history this has applied in various ways, but eventually with better understanding, familiarity, education, generations and people realize differences are relatively superficial, and there isn't anything wrong with insert minority or oppressed group here. Until they realize that though they think something like homosexuality or transgendered people suffer from a mental disorder and so it is something to be prevented or managed, its not actually that dissimilar to how people with mental disorders were believed to be possessed by evil spirits. The three things are very very different. There is nothing wrong with having mental disorders either, usually the serious ones hinder or negatively affect a persons ability to live, hence why in management and prevention is actually beneficial to the person. Not always though, many with physical or mental disorders, abnormalities, aliments, so on, don't require treatment and or wouldn't benefit from treatment and so don't need treatment. It really depends but the main thing is that they aren't not normal for not falling into some statistic. Treatment and prevention in the context of what is normal or not should only be concerned with the benefit of the person. As opposed to homosexual or transgender people where attempted treatment or prevention of is not only not beneficial but usually harmful. Unless your talking about human constructed societal consequences that have jack all to do with objective understanding of the human body and psychology. Since yeah in some countries unfortunately have to manage and repress their gender/sexuality/orientation for reasons to do with their immediate physical safety. Really sad. Hope that helps as far as the differences involved in the parallel you made yes? Cheers. ^_^
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