Gender Reassignment!

Loool!

 

This thread really is a testament to the quality of the schools in Barnsley.

 

Holgate used to be good... but they knocked it down.

 

Same wi Willowgarth I'm afraid!

Got the cane round the buttocks a few times

 

Blimey, the last time I checked this was a forum of light discussion around how inept our football club Is. As an openly gay man, I find some of the comments here extremely disturbing. I remember the day I "decided" to be gay. Sitting in my bedroom casually minding my own business, pondering "what can I do to be different. What will make me stand out." Suddenly it hit me.. I'm going to put myself through a lifetime of potential abuse, struggle and discrimination .... RIIIIIIGHT. But in all seriousness, whether I was born this way or my upbringing tainted my lifestyle "choices" as an adult, what does it matter? What I cannot stand are bigoted people attempting to argue over a subject they don't understand, making Ill-informed comments and statements that simply do nothing to aid their point or quantify their argument. It might be hard to believe for some of you, but I've never dressed in women's clothing-its never even crossed my mind. I've never fully understood the people who decide to make the transition and have gender realignment surgery because it's not something that's affected me. Nor have I ever been confused about who or what I am. But what I can relate to is how being this way might feel. How frustrating and difficult it may be having no outlet or support to get me to a place where I would feel comfortable with myself . You shouldn't need to understand or even "get it". Who are we to judge? The argument about providing the treatment on the NHS is difficult. There's never been a clear enough policy on what treatment is classed as necessary and what isn't. The debate over "cosmetic" procedures will go on and on. What I will say is this, if we're happy to support treatment for obese people who continue to willingly consume themselves to a practically disabled state, then we shouldn't refuse treatment for someone who's mentally convinced they're living in the wrong body.

 

Good Evening Sir

Welcome to the debate.

A wide range of issues here tugging at the Plenkstrings.

 

And the PC types are after her for saying it.

Not much sympathy from me as she's one of the people who helped bring in the authoritarian left-wing PC witch hunt atmosphere.

Hoist by her own petard.

 

I agree most gay men are born that way, it's women who seem to treat it as a lifestyle choice, on the rough council estates round our way there are loads of women who once had husbands but now have girlfriends.

 

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Do they have numerous tattoos?

 

They tend to.

I've always thought domestic violence may play a part in why these women switch sides.

 

Now that's another subject!

One for another day

 

Excellent, balanced post. Sadly we seem to live in a world where people are quick to make judgements based on little or no information or understanding.

 

It is indeed a very strange world we live in and some of the things that happen never cease to amaze!

Ah Well life must go on.

Have they gone yet?

 

**** you you bigot. You come on here spouting sh!te about how people don't know what its like to be gay and bullied because of your orientation - then like some monstrous hypocrite judge those of us whose genetic make up leads us to be pre-disposed to weight gain.

I don't choose to be fat - if you knew anything about weight and weight loss you'd know how it is practically impossible to loose weight - less than 0.5% of people manage to acheive lasting significant weight loss.

How many women do you know who have spent years on "diets" with no appreciable difference to their weight - ask them how easy a choice it is? If it were so fecking easy we'd all be walking round with catwalk models.

10 million years of evolution have lead to a human body designed to pile on the pounds in times of plenty in order to survive the times of famine.

How someone so self righteous about gayness when there is no scientific evidence of anything other than a mental state then be so dismissive and judgemental of anothers genuine genetic "condition" where this is oodles of evidence to support a scientific explanation is beyond me.

I pity your slender figure when the great famine comes.

Rant over

 

Really?

 

I have no idea if some people can gain weight because of genetics or not, I suspect it is quite possible, however the 'evidence' you give above about it being hard to diet is rubbish. I imagine for some people it is (if the genetics thing is a thing) but by making sweeping statements above you make it sound as if dieting is hard for everyone. For the vast majority of people it is not 'practically impossible', they just choose to eat (and eat).

 

No you're wrong. Read some stuff and learn - you're a teacher!!!! We don't need people like you propogating the myths!

Start with the men who made us fat and the men who made us thin.

Learn about sucrose and your brain and how fructose affects your body and how fat cells scream for help when you're dieting.

Learn about how you're body compensates for excercise.

Seriously teachers believing this "choosing to eat" ********. give me strength.

 

People find it hard to "diet" because they regard a diet as a temporary thing and do crazy stuff like cabbage soup/lemonade diets, which cause them to lose a bit of weight in the short term but then they stop the "diet" and return to their old habits. If you make sustainable lifestyle changes and stick to them then losing weight is fairly easy. I have a friend who yo-yo dieted until I got him eating consistently healthily at which point it slowly but surely dropped off and hasn't come back.

 

From personal experience - I put weight on after my wedding (I'm not even that sure how, I certainly didn't intend to). I then realised how unfit I was getting and began to pay attention to the amount and types of food I was eating (no additional exercise). I managed to lose the extra weight plus more. As mansfield_red said above, for most people you just need to make sustainable lifestyle changes. I have cut no food out, I just don't eat the amounts I used to do. Oh, and I am now walking around like a catwalk model

 

I've just seen the edit above. Not sure whether this is a joke or not anymore?