[@Buddha][quote]I'm sure you realize as well as me that this is a specific example and that, with a simple google search, you can pull up stuff that's much less a gag and more or less straight up sexual, my friend.[/quote]

You've never been in a Spencer's have you? I've been seeing stuff like this since I was 13 and old enough to go into the mall by myself without adult supervision. 

It's a party. You go to the party. You deal with the party. You don't go to the hosts throwing the party for themselves and say 'Hey I don't like this.' even though the party isn't even for you.

[quote]So.. if they don't want to change from a female into a male or male into a female, are they transgender? Because you lost me now. The concept of gender seems to be lost on you. What you're describing is not gender. Gender is not a coloring book where you can draw what you want. It's something that we created socially in order to organize ourselves and create labels for people.

The labels happen to be male, female, and transgender. 
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Gender isn't a binary. It's not. It's not one or the other. Gender is horribly complex and people shouldn't just decide 'the brain works like THIS' when we [i]don't know[/i]. [url=http://www.medicaldaily.com/challenging-gender-identity-biologists-say-gender-expands-across-spectrum-rather-323956]We also have proof that gender is far more complex than boy or girl.[/url]

More than that Sex, Gender, and Gender Presentation are very different. I can dress as much as a man as I like. I'm still a woman. Changing my clothes or hair doesn't suddenly change that I'm a cisgendered woman. My roommate wearing a dress doesn't suddenly make him not a transgendered man. Those are still very true things.

There's also a theory that gender might just be a social construct (which is entirely possible because we don't very well understand the brain still.).

[quote]I'm also not very empahetic, mostly because I really don't care. [/quote]

You're not unique in this. Most heterosexual people are either outright hateful, don't care (like you do), or try to be 'allies' and end up making it all about themselves and how 'wonderful' they are for being supportive. There are some that do the right thing and things are improving overall but it's a simple fact that 'I don't care' or 'You deserve it' is the general response to horrible treatment of LGBTQ+ people. See: The response to the Pulse incident was overall either anti-Muslim (Don't care and 'allies') or how sinful we were and that God was just enacting his wrath on us sinful fags.

[quote]How does one get 'greedy' when it comes to sex :/[/quote]

I don't fucking know. It's just an assumption that bisexuals will cheat because they 'can't be satisfied by one gender' and it's fucking stupid. I hate it so much.

[quote]for issues that were not related to sexuality[/quote]

You hit the nail on the head here. Yes Heterosexual people suffer too and yes they consider suicide too.

They've never had to deal with the feeling of wanting to die just for something you can't help or control. For something that shouldn't even be a problem.

[quote] I also wonder why Americans are so obsessed with heritage and culture.[/quote]

Because our country is so mixed and complex with so many different heritages and cultures to pull from. So people want to cling to their personal traditions so they don't get lost.

The US is very unique. Our country isn't 'One' heritage like many others are. Ours is such a mix that everyone is free to express their culture openly. (Legally anyway. Culturally however is another story.)