Self Injury support site: 9,000,000
Mental illness support sites:15,000,000
Homosexuality support sites: 102,000,000
Plastic surgery support sites:14,000,000
Addiction support sites: 7,000,000

What's the point? Support sites serve a purpose for someone just like everything else on the internet and within a community.

Gender identity research is a gret thing but what doesit matter if msny do not fit in with the transgender topic? Gender identity reaches much further than transgender. Ones position in society, how society views gender, how one relates with society. Perhapse there needs to be far more reaserch done strictly on transgender? If you are going to google independent transgender research papers, youwill find there are more than 260,000 results. Again, what is the point?

The current status quo will in no way damage families etc. The current status quo is to adhere to the norm. If one chooses to deviate from the norm they are damaged. If one is damaged they are worthless in the eye of society. This is the status quo. The status quo has led to the death of millions of people throughout the years. The status quo is why racisim, homophobia, sexism, and hatred of all kinds still exist. It is when people choose to break away from the status quo thatthe pain can subside.

Istill do not understand whatthe Emperor's New Clothes have to do with any of this? The dude was naked. What does that have to do with gender?

The whole point of this thread had absolutely nothing to do with anything that you have brought up. I asked a simple question whether people have questioned their gender identity and whether this identity was reinforced by family or what. Had I know that at any time it would have led to a derogitory portrayal of any person i would have never asked the question. I regret opening this topic because it has spun into something thatis completely disrepectful to anentire segment of the population and has far reaching consiquences. You have chosen to take a segment of society and dismiss them like they were worthless. It is this same additude that allows hate crimes to continue unchecked. These additudes keep people in thebackground on a daily basis because they feel they do not deserve to live. Please relegate anyone who does not fit neatly into a little box to their own home so you do not have to look at them.

I regret creating this topic and refuse to feed into your biggoted additude any longer. The question I asked does not matter and from this point on I refuse to participate.

I will be requesting that this thread be locked and/or removed. I will not be party to hateful additudes towards anyone and refuse to be seen as the reason it started in the beginning.