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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I suppose what I like to do in something like this is bring out the hypocrisy I see in these issues. What makes one thing something parents should just ‘get over’ and another something that’s just a fetish?
If this is all about being comfortable in your own skin and a good teacher then really no moral or psychological matters should come into play. I’m sure someday someone will isolate what makes someone transsexual. It will either genetic or developmental in nature, most likely both, but they will say here is the cause. But this same thing can be said for almost anything, even things like being violent will have definable genetic components.
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Violence directly harms others. Crossdressing isn't always a paraphilia, though it can be, and it's a pretty harmless one.
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Lets take this one step back even, lets say the teacher was a cross dresser. So now instead of wanting to BE a woman, he just now wants to feel like one. I don’t understand cross dressing any more than I understand transsexuals, but obviously they feel a need to do it or they wouldn’t be doing it. Is this just a fetish to be dismissed out of hand, while wanting your penis ‘altered’ is something that we should just get over?
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I think both are harmless. So what if a guy goes home and puts on a dress? Is that somehow lessening his ability to teach his students? Ms. McBeth is now a woman, so when she shows up in women's clothes, she's dressed appropriately for her sex. To continue with your analogy, she'd be crossdressing if she showed up with a male presentation.
Gilda