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Okay so I get this, but I also don’t. A horse with a cardboard unicorn horn vs a transwoman’s wig being taken off seems like a very distant comparison to me…
I read somewhere that they meant to have this horse wanting to be a unicorn represent a trans woman/gender issues to like teach the issue in an easy to understand way for kids apparently not realizing how ridiculous the way they went about it is. So when you think about the horse as a trans woman and the horn as a wig and buttercup taking the horn off in the way she did…/:
i see it as a comment on how feminization surgery isnt necessary in order to feel like a woman.
theres a difference between gender reassignment, and a softening of the jaw, implants, etc.
Well I, as a trans woman, see it as them telling us that we should accept what we were born as, as opposed to what we actually are.
I can respect that. As someone who is genderfluid, I sort of identify with it. I don’t have gender dysphoria because theres no definition as to what a man or a woman looks like, and it took me a while to come to terms with that. There’s dudes with boobs, and chicks with body hair, and that’s cool. The real man or woman is who I see in the mirror, and I don’t need anything to change that.
That’s fantastic that you’re comfortable enough with your body to not need any modifications but some of us don’t have that luxury which is why when this episode displayed procedures to change your body as some sort of mistake that we just rush into. That’s another reason why it makes me super uncomfortable. The whole episode sends so many wrong messages.