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MUFFIN THE MULE MAYBE HAS THE TRANS ANSWER
MUFFIN THE MULE MAYBE HAS THE TRANS ANSWER
Given that it seems to be less than 1 in 200 people identify as trans, it seems to be a topic that occupies a disproportionately HUGE amount of argument. And at times very bitter argument.
That argument is, generally, not about the right of any one of us to think and feel and act as if we are a different sex than our genitals and other factors dictate.
We homo sapiens are all free spirits with the right to present ourselves as whatever we wish - and should (it seems Simplz to me) be respected as such universally.
No, the problem is that of a person who is born a man wanting to make use of spaces that belong to women or girls. Toilets, changing rooms and the like.
Which leads to some trans men saying 'but we are women' we want to use this area.
And then people who are born women unsurprisingly replying that a 6 foot man with a beard and a penis, despite wearing a dress, is a man.
And there is no place for a man in a woman's toilet - or any of their 'spaces'.
This is not likely to go away any time soon - because it feels to most women - and especially the mothers and fathers of girls - like an invasion.
People respond at their fiercest when invaded.
What was needed at the outset was perhaps a situation similar to that of MULES.
Mules are neither a horse or a donkey. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes.
This is not quite the same thing as trans though MULES are born as such - just as trans say they are. But - the outcome of a specific name for the type has made everything very easy for all of us to understand, whereas TRANS seems to be a word that causes confusion and argument.
Trans is always going to be wrong because its very meaning is transforming or transitioning.
Not one thing or another. Just started the journey, halfway or going as far as is possible. All are trans - but not all have the same wants or needs as regards their visibility.
No one gets confused about mules, nor has the wrong expectations.
A mule can not do the same things as a horse or a donkey. It can not give birth to a baby mule. Which is a close similarity?
So I wonder WHY OH WHY when the first 'trans' awareness came along - trans people were not awarded a nice name. Disabled is not a particularly nice name for those who need special consideration, but it works perfectly.
And just like disabled people with their own spaces, where appropriate and their own sports events and so on.
Everyone gets it. There is no shame. There but for fortune go any of us. At least similar if not more understood that 'Gays' - who managed to break out of Homosexuals - by taking over a very nice word.
MULES is a nice word, but it has been taken.
RAINBOWS could catch on perhaps?
1. Muffin the Mule is a puppet.
2. You have to get your English language and grammar back into shape - i.e. your subjects and objects. My comparison is not a comparison at all - and if it were couched that way - then it would not be comparing anything (animal or otherwise) with anyone (human).
3. Mine is an illustration of how language has coped very acceptably, in other fields and areas of activity with a third possibility - beyond right or left by the invention of a third, alternative, noun.
4. 'Trans' or 'Tran' is not that third description - because in itself it is a 'right-to-left' spectrum. Starting to transfer - through to having transferred'.
5. What would be useful - I ruminate - is the adoption or theft of a pleasant-sounding word that would be acceptable to describe people who have made as much of a transfer as is possible from feeling, looking and sounding like their sex at birth - to feeling, looking and sounding like the other.
6. At which point - once certified - the public may have to legally accept those as if they had been born the other sex (toilets, changing rooms etc.). That would surely stop a lot of confusion and resentment.
7. It is a view, Elliot. And certainly not a hateful view. Don't you have views in your world? Other than that a viewpoint should not be spoken if you do not happen to understand it or agree with it? Come along Elliot, woke up to the world of the expression of ideas.
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