I’ll get to the reason behind my title later but let me get the disclaimer out the way first.
I have nothing against transgender people. I am a man who’s happy being a man. Some of you are men who are happier being a woman and vice versa. I get it. I don’t quite understand all of it but I get it. However that doesn’t change the fact that some of the men-turned-women scare me and here’s why.
I remember back when I first learned about men who wanted to be women and saw some of the pictures of the aforementioned men(women?) back in…let’s say 8th grade. This was when the transgender ladies looked something like this:
Pretty obvious right? That’s exactly what I thought and dismissed the whole idea from my mind. It was weird to me at the time but why should I care if a man wants to take it a step further than RuPaul?
Fast forward to 2011 and it’s a whole different scenario. Nowadays transgender women look a lot more like this:
And it’s got me very paranoid about meeting potential suitors 3-5 years down the road. Now I understand that the transgender community is a very small one and that the chances of me running into one and then dating them out of the millions of women in America alone is ridiculously slim but that does little to suppress the urge to ask girls that I meet for pictures of themselves as a toddler so I can be assured that she was always a she. (Is there any way to ask that without being offensive?? I’d like to think so…)
And if that whole prospect wasn’t scary enough, what if, God forbid, I did meet and date a transgender woman and 6 months down the road they pull the “I didn’t want to tell you earlier because I wasn’t sure how you would react” Card?? I’m really not sure how I would react lol. This is why out of the two options, I’d rather date RuPaul because at least he’s straight forward about who he is.(I still really wouldn’t though.)
And I really don’t want to hear the “Oh well what if they make you happy-” Counter arguments because at the end of the day, up to that point I would be living a lie and I’m not one of those people who’s ok with living a lie of any kind. I also have no desire to date anyone who was born as the same sex I was, that’s just me.
At the end of at all I know this scenario probably won’t occur to me in my life but I’d be a fool not to notice how good transgender surgery has become in the last few years and I can only imagine how much it will progress as I get older so I know that it will happen to somebody at some point if not already. I just thought I was well overdue for a more humorous entry so I leave you all with this video.
P.S. oh and for the women who think that this could never happen to you???
