[MissC]

There are thousands of transsexual people who don't have the bodies, the resources, or the support of family that you claim prevents you from transitioning. They still transition against all rational thinking. Why? Because they have to. That tells me you are not a transsexual. Be glad of that, my friend, it is sparing you a lot of hardship and anguish.

Ah, the old "one true Scotsman" logical fallacy!

You're only one of us if you're incapable of dealing with life until you have your penis cut off!

Basically, that just means you're crazier or more damaged than the one who manages to hold it together in less drastic ways.

Let me break down the fallacious thinking:

Say we have two diabetic individuals, Type 1 diabetic since birth. (This is based on two very different real individuals I personally know/knew)

One goes with the conventional option. He listens to the doctors, tests his blood sugar all the time, uses artificial sweeteners and insulin... and eventually ends up fat, crippled, and possibly with extremities amputated... and dead before 60. The usual path of a diabetic.

And let's say Diabetic #2 takes a different road. He does his homework, and finds out that if he eats a diet high in protein and animal fats, and low in starch and sugars, he can live a healthy lifestyle without insulin shots, without pain, without obesity. In fact, he'll appear to be an ordinary, healthy man, and you wouldn't know he was diabetic unless he told you.

In your model, Clara, the second man isn't diabetic.

But of course, he is just as diabetic as the first... he's just learned a better way to cope.

You are like the first diabetic... with the added complication of feeling morally superior about it.