1. The fact that people actually are identifying as transracial, transage, transpecies, transdisabled. I find it ridiculous. Like, that is just weird.
2. I have to admit, the parallel with all these trans-everything and transgender is there. From a logical point of view, if we allow one, then it's illogical to ban the rest.
3. I just didn't like how this video was against transgenderism because I feel that it's a personal choice. I have some pretty complex feelings about trangenderism but that's for another post.
Undeniably, there is a parallel between all the trans- mentioned. I just couldn't unravel the argument to see if there was a loophole. I was just so unsure of what to feel. Because I don't condone transgenderism, but I found the rest utterly ridiculous.
I spoke to my friend about this and she said something that really made a lot of sense and I had an "aha" moment right there. The basic gist of it was, "You're accepting of transgenders only because you've been exposed to this idea. You've already been aware of this idea for a while and you've accepted it, that's why it seems fine to you. On the other hand, if you look at your grandparents, they don't even have a word for transgenders in their dialect because they've never been exposed to this idea. So if you tell them about it, they will find it ridiculous. And all the transage etc, who knows, if you get more and more used to this idea if it keeps popping up, someday it's going be normal to you, or maybe the next generation."
And that was a wonderful resolution. I didn't have to wrack my brain for resolution. This argument had been resolved.
But then, another question popped up. If this is how society works, whereby we accept ideas that we've been exposed to, how are we supposed to act? What becomes of morality? If everything is made up of social constructs, wouldn't that be the same for right and wrong? The right thing and wrong thing to do can change over time and you need to be relevant in order to do what's right. Someday, murder might be the right thing to do. What is the meaning of all this then? What does it matter how I live this life, how I make decisions and what beliefs I hold when social constructs, change and exposure will influence how my opinions, and these opinions can and may change drastically over time. What then?
