Can We Be Open?

[wizy123]

Originally posted by young reader:
i don't have a problem with people wanting to change their gender (anyways, for those who believe in reincarnation, you HAVE to accept that eventually you're goging to end up in a gender you're not used to, and not ready for...so one day it might be YOU having that problem) but at the same time, in my oppinion, it woulld create it's own host of problems once you've done it. It's up to the person whether those problems are worth it.

ya thats an interesting thought but then again you are not supposted to not remember your past life? exept i did remember there being an artical about the reencarnation bit and the kid acually remembering the past life of the other people. i think it is really weird if you think about it but interesting.

[William]

Originally posted by Rubywolf:
The eight genders isn't a theory. I'll list them.

heterosexual female
heterosexual male
homosexual female
homosexual male
transvestite female
transvestite male
female born with male genitalia
male born with female genitalia

It's the possible genders that a baby could be born with. Excuse any and all spelling mistakes.

I'm not sure those are actually genders; they're more like possible sexual orientations. Also, shouldn't it be ten if we include asexual male and female, 12 if we count bisexuals? Transvestites are also probably debatable; being a bit of a biology nerd I'd prefer to define gender based on genetics than genitalia. Of course, if we exclude transvestites and those trapped in the wrong gender but include bi and asexual we have 8 categories again.

[Rubywolf]

William- could me. Sounds right. I don'tknow, really. I haven'tlooked into it. But they are genders, not sexual orientations. You can be born with false genetalia, and that's a gender, not a sexual orientation. Wouldn't a pedaphile be on the list of sexual orientations, rather than these? *shudders*

[Dragon Writer]

wizzy123 said ya thats an interesting thought but then again you are not supposted to not remember your past life? exept i did remember there being an artical about the reencarnation bit and the kid acually remembering the past life of the other people. i think it is really weird if you think about it but interesting.

you don't need to consiously REMEMBER a past life for it to leave an impact...if you believe in reincarnation, you have to also beleive that each life leaves an impact on the soul that iwll be remembered...including a gender it's most used too, possibly. i'm not saying reincarnatrion is the reason people feel like changing their gender, necessarily...just that if it IS real, or you believe in it, you must also believe that there's a good chance you yourself will end up in a simmilar situation one day, whether or not you act on it.

[wizy123]

hmmm... an inter estent thought ... i do belive in reincarnation... but i belive that when you die you have the chouce to be reincarnated or not... its just a thought but i think its true

[Dragon Writer]

i think if reincarnation exists, their may be a few types: you still have a lesson to learn, and have to go back. two: when you learned the lessons, but choose to go back anyway. three: when you have a particular place in the tapestry of life, something you were meant to do, and go back again and again to do it, whether it be share a message, or to help the world in some other mannor. but that's just my belief. *has thought about this on and off for some time, modifying my beliefs as i learn, or think of new things, but usually keeping to a basic idea* i also think there's probably a place you go between reincarnations, which would be heaven, but id ont' believe in hell, because there really is too many lives to just torment someone like that for just one of them...if your bad, you just don't get to go to heaven while you wait. you get stuck in a bunch of nothingness or something...anyways, back to the ORIGINAL topic before religion takes it over...whether you switch genders or not is your own choice, and when some people say they were born in the wrong bodies, they might quite litterly be right...