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**BenBoobmers** · 05-25-2012, 01:30 AM

Buddha taught universal love and equality. Meaning gender shouldn't have anything to do with how a person is treated. And it'd be quite strange and wrong if a Buddhist was to say "I don't care if you are a man or a woman, but I do care if you are a man who wants to be a woman, or a woman who wants to be a man."

If gender is truly not a reason for prejudice (it isn't), then having a problem with transgender people is like having a problem with a construction worker who wants to be a janitor, or somebody eating at McDonald's who would rather be eating at Taco Bell. I just doesn't make sense.

05-25-2012, 01:30 AM	#7
BenBoobmers Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	Buddha taught universal love and equality. Meaning gender shouldn't have anything to do with how a person is treated. And it'd be quite strange and wrong if a Buddhist was to say "I don't care if you are a man or a woman, but I do care if you are a man who wants to be a woman, or a woman who wants to be a man." If gender is truly not a reason for prejudice (it isn't), then having a problem with transgender people is like having a problem with a construction worker who wants to be a janitor, or somebody eating at McDonald's who would rather be eating at Taco Bell. I just doesn't make sense.
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