Being a woman or a man will not be socially acceptable in 50 year. It will be either you are transgender or you are not human who deserves basic human rights.
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This comment, though short, is easily one if the dumbest things I have ever seen reproduced here: Transgender people make up 0.6% of the US population (according to the CDC - http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf ).
It's quite the window into the diseased mindset of the OP, that s/he would assume the only way a minority can get equal treatment is at the cost if those who currently form the majority. It speaks to a belief there's only so much "equality" to go around before sharing any form of privilege is a loss. In reality, however, decent treatment - fairness, the right to privacy, and so on - is not a limited or non-renewable resource.
And it's not a commodity for sale, either, but instead it is the birthright of every person.
The only people who would seriously advocate that live in echo chambers on Tumblr. They won't have enough political power to try.
Everyone else just want trans-gendered individuals to be seen as humans. GET OUT OF THE ECHO CHAMBER.
Just to let you all know. There *are* those of us who are trans, but don't identify as male or female. We're called non-binary, and it's an umbrella term for those of us who either fluctuate with gender, identify somewhere near the middle of the spectrum, or even outside of the social construct of gender.
HOWEVER, no one will be forced to be trans, or even non-binary. Being trans isn't a choice. UGH.
EDIT: Non-binary genders have existed long before Tumblr, and I didn't learn about them from that site, as I despise it myself
@Memo: genderfluid & non-binary types without dysphoria have been around forever, mate. Not everyone is on the binary, and not all non-binaries suffer dysphoria. Also, non-gender-conformity (see "metrosexual") has been a thing for a long time now...
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