--- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > I think what Charlie Lutes said about previous lives could be > applied to anyone with whom there is a difference between > their physical gender and their psychological gender.
Well, that wouldn't include most homosexuals, but that was how it was originally presented. Perhaps you missed what I wrote to Mike: > > When you first posted this, you presented it as an > > explanation for homosexuality. But a "super masculine" > > man or "super feminine" woman (if you're talking about > > appearance, which I believe you were when you posted > > it before) could just as easily be gay as straight. > > > > Likewise, gender dysphoria should not be confused with > > homosexual preference. Often they go together, but > > sometimes they don't. Most gays and lesbians don't want > > to change their gender. I should clarify this, having done a little research. Gender dysphoria and sexual preference (in the sense of who you're attracted to sexually) are independent of each other. This gets complicated: apparently most gender-dysphoric individuals regard themselves as heterosexual, which would mean that a male who believes he's really female is sexually attracted to other males. A gender-dysphoric man who was attracted to women would consider himself homosexual. But this is *not* the case with most homosexuals, who are comfortable with their sexual identity, i.e., most homosexual men don't want to be women. (I think trying to scope out the past-life karma of any particular individual based on Charlie's formula is a mug's game, frankly. I'll stick with what we know from science, if only because I find it a lot more interesting!) > ________________________________ > From: authfriend <authfriend@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 7:38 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pfc. Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years > > > > Â > --- In [email protected], "sharelong60" <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > I think it was Mike Dixon who had what I think is a plausible > > explanation from Charlie Lutes: that a person is carrying non > > physical gender qualities over from a previous life time. > > No, that had to do with homosexuals, not transgender > individuals. Didn't make any sense for homosexuals, > though. Charlie assumed homosexual men had feminine > characteristics and homosexual women had masculine > characteristics, an old stereotype that doesn't apply > anywhere near across the board. And most homosexuals > have no desire to be the opposite sex. > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Seraphita" <s3raphita@> wrote: > > > > > > > > - In [email protected], "authfriend" wrote:> > > > > Manning says she's always been a woman in her mind/psyche. > > > > > > > > This Manning "chap" becomes more embarrassing by the day. > > > > From the Wiki article on the US Military and gays I read: > > > > While restrictions on sexual orientation have been lifted, restrictions > > > > on gender identity remain in place due to Department of Defense > > > > regulations; transgender Americans thus continue to be barred from > > > > military service. > > > > > > > > Sorry Chelsea - you're in the wrong line of work. > > > > > > Not any more. She's been dishonorably discharged. > > > > > > She said she joined the Army to try to overcome her sense > > > that she was a woman. Now that the trial is over and she's > > > out of the Army, she's decided to go for it. > > > > > > FWIW, research is increasingly showing that gender dysphoria > > > has biological causes. It's beginning to look as though a > > > man, say, doesn't want to be a woman because he's screwed > > > up, but is screwed up because he wants to be a woman. > > > > > > It's hard to imagine what it must be like to feel you're in > > > the wrong kind of body and to know that everybody thinks > > > you're someone you know you aren't--and for this to be the > > > case from the time you were a very little kid. That would > > > mess with anyone's mind. > > > > > >
