Alright, stop the show. I’ve never heard such Orwellian NewSpeak in my life.

This is both irresponsible and cruel: actively encouraging and supporting a person’s detachment from reality.

Allowing people to believe that it’s fine to pump their bodies full of hormonal drugs to try and cosmetically alter superficial aspects of themselves and have superficial parts of their bodies mangled in surgery is truly evil.

A man cannot become a woman or vice versa simply by engaging in these kinds of sinister experiments; simple acquaintance with some books on physiology will help anyone see that the majority of the internal organs; skeleton; and most importantly, brain of men and women are irreversibly different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Sex#Chapter_One:_The_differences
Yes, a tiny minority (about 0.02%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
of people are born with physiology differences, but this is not the same as talking yourself into thinking and being encouraged to think that you are “in the wrong body”.

““The only prejudice I ever experienced was from someone I tried to buy a banana from in a university café, rather bizarrely. I had a deal card which had my name and photograph on and she refused to believe it was my card, because it was a girl’s picture and a girl’s name.”
This is not prejudice, you moron; it’s a perfectly rational response to physical incongruity.

The reason why people in your department are treating you the same, is not because they “buy into” your change as being normal; but because they are not impolite; and because any resistance could result in them losing their position (that applies to students and staff). Of course, your illogic enables you to conflate responses and Doublethink them into being positives in your mangled thought system; the cult-regime facilitates this with its misguided and immoral regulations and institutionalised groupthink and newspeak.

This is not bravery, but folly; more specifically, this is a disassociative mental illness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disassociative
that is being sponsored by misinformed people in positions of responsibility they clearly should not hold.

“at 16. “I realised that the way I was thinking wasn’t normal. ”
Quite.

Shocking that a Quackologist opted to give you the nod; but then I suppose it’s not worth losing their job over is it in climate created by this pseudo-liberal immoral regime.

The world is as it is; not as you would wish it to be. Your change changes nothing; and you cannot run away from the ramifications this will have upon you throughout your life.

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Before anyone launches a predictable tirade; please first consult some books on the subject; and ones on critical thinking and logical fallacies… and remember that prejudice is not the same thing as bigotry: prejudice is preference and intrinsic ontological requirement for existence; whereas bigotry is the stubborn refusal to accept new information that challenges your ideas: which is precisely what I’m doing: challenging your bigotry.

I’m not going to regale details here, as it’s not the place. I’m not going to expound my beliefs either, cos it’s not the time. I’m not going to pretend I know the ins and outs of the matter, either, because that would be arrogant of me. I just want to say: “good on you for doing what was right for yourself, and all the best for the future.”

I hate that Ruth has to think so much about whether she is as outwardly female as she is in mind and soul as when we are with her it is so natural and normal to us that she is female. She never makes a deal of it; we love her - she’s Ruth, our friend.