Brave or Selfish

Transgender woman Robyn Thorne talks about the hardships of transitioning from male to female
 

Is she brave or selfish going to the media ? 

 

Does she care about the effect it is having on her family ?


Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/transgender-woman-robyn-thorne-talks-about-th...

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Brave or Selfish

Not sure the two choices are all that is needed....

 

Brave - NO

 

Selfish - NO

 

Publicity Hound ? - Likely, I mean, something as personal as this surely should be just that....personal, why splash it all over the place?

 

and as for the effect on the family - again, this should have been a personal thing discussed within the family JMO

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It must be agonising living in a body you don't believe fits.    I think gender change is more acceptable and common now but when
Robyn was young there would have been more opposition. 

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Brave?, most likely, yes. Selfish?, impossible for me to say, I can't and won't try to guess her reasons. Fact is there are alot of misconceptions about trans men and women. First you have those movies, what was it? pet detective or something. In music, people see the movies, hear the music and mostly get the wrong ideas. It's hard enough for those who are their biological birth gender to figure out who they are and what is their place in life is. Add the lifelong burden of being born with the wrong body and , well just imagine. Many try to be what they were born, some can their entire life, others can't,  and end up cheating themselves out of happyness and contentness. I guess in a way it is selfish, placing one's own happyness and contentment above their family's expectations of what and who they are belived to be

 

I haven't clicked onto the link yet, I might, but i will say that people should be more aware and educated about things like this by real life examples and not by the music and movies they encounter that potrays for example one persons misguided ideas on (for example) who or what a transgender woman is. No two women are the same are they?, why would this be any diffrent for transgender women, or F to M?

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If she is getting that idea out there, it's not selfish, it's a community service.

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