Talk:Andy Kang/@comment-33525200-20171102021355/@comment-33453162-20171103181617

Fearless Diva Sorry, but what he said was pretty much only free speech, nothing less, nothing more. You don't have to agree with him (I certainly don't) but he wasn't offensive, mean, or anything like that. He expressed his opinion in a polite way. And calling him transphobic... Geeez... You know, we still live in a world, where trans people aren't that well-accepted, but guilt-tripping not 100% open-minded people to OPRESS their opinion, is NOT the way to convince them. You can't be so sensitive to start a heated argument with anybody who says something that you don't like. Some people can't or don't want to comprehend that transgenderism is a real thing, but it doesn't mean they hate transgender people. Calling someone, who says that they can't accept that somebody has different gender than their sex transphobic, is pretty much the same as calling somebody who doesn't want to have sex with their own gender homophobic.

I'm really sorry for trans people who can't find their place in the world as they deserve, but they have to understand that acceptance doesn't happen from one day to the other. Sex and gender meant exactly the same thing for thousands of years, the society started to be open-minded about them only a few years ago. It wasn't even a decade. When I was in middle-school even being lesbian was considered scandalous, while homosexuality was a much more known thing than transgenderism. Generations live that grew up believing that sex and gender are the same thing. When people live decades in the belief of something, their opinion won't change easily. That's not how the world works. When somebody says they just can't look at a transgender male as a male (given that they said it politely), the WORST possible thing you can do is attack them, and calling them transphobic. It's easier to catch a fly with honey than with vinegar, you know? An open conversation can change intelligent people's opinion as you can reason with them. Hostile behavior on the other hand, only makes them resist even more.