To add context my earlier statement:
Neither does Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy (Eastern Christianity) which conceptualizes sin as a illness. A spiritual and/or psychological illness. So, the Orthodox uses a different kind of vocabulary than the West regarding sin, they speak of the need for the sinner to heal.
There is a difference between treating the symptoms of something and healing a person with an illness. If a 14 year-old girl looks in a mirror, sees her tiny breasts, and thinks she's supposed to have larger breasts or can't be happy unless she gets breasts implants, it might be her getting breast implants will reduce the symptoms of her problem. Likewise, if a 14 year-old boy looks in a mirror and thinks he's supposed to have larger female breasts or can't be happy until he gets breast implants.
Because
I'm such
a huge sinner I used to go on a transsexual website (fortunately I no longer do and have not for years). HungAngels it was called. Because I find a lot of nice looking pre-op transsexuals sexually alluring. Probably in no small part to a forbidden fruit thing. A contradiction in one body thing.
Anyways, I rarely posted on there but it was a great learning experience. Prior to going on there I just assumed the vast majority of male-to-female transsexuals were /are"normal" (whatever that is, but we have an idea in our minds). But what I found was the complete opposite. From reading their posts I found about 1% of them were what most modern day Americans would regard as psychologically "normal." The vast majority of them to my great surprise were not.
I'll give you an example. The vast majority of modern day Americans think a "normal" psychological personality trait of
women is that the individual woman, in her personality that is, internalizes the conception of life and her place in it that it goes
too far to ask a man, a potential boyfriend or husband, to
totally accept her means of earning income through prostitution.
But the vast majority of male-to-female (I'm purposely not speaking of female-to-male transsexuals in this) "Tgirls" think, as staunchly as a fundamentalist Christian thinks something, that any and all potential boyfriends and husbands or present boyfriends or husbands
have to accept their prostitution with other men. This was actually a big and often recurring topic on that website. And every time the transsexuals defended their position against the men saying that asks too much.
There were other things too that I did not expect to find. That being the "Tgirls" on hormones, looking like women, and some very attractive looking, too, were often very depressed. The reason for their depression is what I did not expect to find. Or one reason anyways. And that is their physical transition brought them tons of male attention, sexual attention,
but for the vast majority it never brought more than that from men. Most men did not want to marry them (I assume because many young men want children, biological children made up of their own genes and that of the mother's genes). In fact, a big complaint they had was that most men are happy to screw them, but only in secret and do not want to openly date them in public. So, their physical transition never brought them more than becoming a sexual fetish object for men. It dd not bring most of them the
healing power of love.
A small percentage did express they found a deep love with a man though. So, I have to admit that to be fair.
There were other things too. Like I found some of the "Tgirls" to act like, respond in posts like, a caricature of a female. Like very ditsy females. And just
exaggerated "feminine" types of responses. But again, to be fair, in this respects I only found a minority of the "Tgirls" doing that.
I also found something I did not expect about most men that go after "Tgirls." Most to my surprise, apparently in part like Tgirls because they want to be sodomized by them. This was one of the Tgirls big gripes. I found few men on that discussion board to deny it too. I also found a guy on their that posted frequently all his hatred of Tgirls. I mean this dude (he was black) hated them like Klanmen hate black people. And bragged about banging them only for sex. Yet, he apparently had little problem getting "Tgirls" into bed (for $$$ I assume) even though most of them hated him back too. It was a very strange thing.
Anyways, psychologist claim alcoholics and addicts have certain averaged out negative personality traits. There is some truth to that I think. But I'm led to believe male-to-female transsexuals do too. As "unPC" as that is.
