Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-78.35.133.250-20150305155711/@comment-96.41.115.34-20150305230641

To add to the "historically and socially transphobic concepts" these include the idea that transgender people are "just pretending to be the gender they say they are", which is NOT to say that characters who pretend to be another gender to escape gender roles or prove a point about gender roles are transphobic, BUT so many transgender people get targeted because others assume they identify as a certain gender just for this purpose, when its actually because their gender identity is ingrained into their nature and that's just who they are. Also, when people think transgender people are "pretending to be the other gender" they use it as an excuse to call the person by the wrong gender, which would be ordinarily done to characters like Mulan. Also the "must be transgender because of trauma and/or mental health problems such as extreme anxiety" assumption is used as an excuse to point to "craziness / mental illness" as the reason for someone being transgender, instead of recognizing their gender identity. This has led to people being institutionalized, which has obviously not done much to help these people and have actually led to increased suicide rates. So similar to how gay people can't be "fixed" by psychiatric therapy, trans people can't be "fixed" by that and should be allowed to express themselves like gay people (by the way, sexual orientation is NOT the same thing as gender identity, so even super effeminate gay people are NOT trans women who are attracted to men, etc.)

Please also know that this list may not be accurate, etc. because I'm not an authority figure or trans. If this description is not accurate or badly done, could you please let me know? I would appreciate it a lot.