Q&A: What is your position toward transgender people
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What is your position toward transgender people
Question
1. Do you think this is not an illness and is normal?
2. If that man who became a woman were to correct you in how you address him, asking you to speak to him in the feminine, would you change how you speak?
3. What is your attitude toward the effects this causes for confused people who get caught up in it?
Answer
- Illness is a matter of cultural-value definition. There is no unequivocal answer to this question. To each person, his own definitions.
- Maybe. I have no interest in hurting anyone. If he remains a man and only feels like a woman, then I assume not. But if he underwent surgery, then I assume yes.
- I am not familiar with the reality or the feelings of such people.
Discussion on Answer
Honorable Rabbi, your response really fits PC culture….
On the other hand, I understand that the Rabbi doesn't have the energy to get entangled in this.
Welcome back to the world. It seems you were in a coma for the past few years. I would have appreciated the empathetic and touching understanding you showed toward me; the problem is that in light of your message, I doubt whether the concept of understanding is relevant in your case.
Sorry, but your answers are vague. This culture has become blurred, the truth is missing, and a wave of this phenomenon is increasingly having an effect, so that any confused boy or man, in some passing moment of feeling something, will get up and make a change. It doesn't sound right to me, and I'm warning about it too.