"How can they argue for "gender confirmation" surgery while arguing they shouldn't have to have SRS?"
This makes absolutely no sense at all. What makes me transgender is that my brain's notion of my sex is at odds with the rest of the anatomy I was born with. What makes me a woman is that I have the mind of a woman. I know that it runs counter to human instinct to look beyond the surface when judging these things. For some, I'm not a woman until I've got a vagina. To you I'm a man and always will be, because I was born with a penis. The fact of the matter is that I *feel* like a woman. For a long time I couldn't face that. I knew I wanted to be a girl, but that was wrong. Freakish. Sinful. And, because of that doubt, time stopped. I was not a person anymore. I didn't even realize what had happened. Even when I had accepted that I was really transgender, there was a part of me that couldn't think of myself as being a real woman. My body was wrong. My family would think I'm a freak. The world would reject me. I could never get a "sex change". I could never be feminine. Several times I convinced myself that I was fine with being a man. That I was a man. I wish you knew that Hell. I wish you knew the torture of living in the wrong body, your instincts constantly at war with the role you're supposed to play. Even when I had fully accepted that I was a woman, it took me years to even begin to destroy the facade of the man I had pretended to be. In truth, in many respects, I've really only just begun. I spent years denying all of my "feminine" impulses lest they betray me. I built up so many walls... eventually I stopped noticing them. Until they started to crumble I didn't even really understand how hollow I had been. I felt like a human being again. This is a fetish? I don't have words to express how angry I am right now. I am a woman. I feel like I should be female. I want to make my body match my soul. But it's wrong for me ask you to think of me as a woman until I do? If a person has a woman's soul, then what harm does it do you to treat her like a woman, regardless of her body?
But, I guess it's even worse than that. Your stupid binary thinking only allows for absolute male and absolute female. So, you can't accept that anyone with a penis is a woman. I don't want my penis, but if other transwomen want to keep theirs... first of all why is that a bad thing? Secondly, why does that mean I'm a hypocrite? There's plenty of people inbetween female and male and plenty of ways to be so. But for you there are only women and men and freaks. Your attitude would force so many people to give up living a real life.
Finally... if I could I would probably get just about any surgery that would make my body more like that of a cisgender woman. I absolutely hate my stupid ugly male body. I can't stand looking in the mirror sometimes. You lot keep laughing at how ridiculous those "ugly manly trannies" are and then you have the nerve to criticize those of us who try to make our bodies more feminine? Absolutely pathetic.
That was probably too much. But shit like this makes so angry...