The transgender taboo (Part 3 of 5)

Go to Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YTlMfJZpFw
This documentary was broadcast on Okto at 10 pm on Thursday, 8 Aug 09.
The fa'afafine of Samoa are featured in this segment.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa'afafine

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• Singapore
• transgender
• transsexual

[tynaluishalei]

i don't think our parents or whoever encouraged us to be fafafines. it's more like accepting us for who we are. now some families do not like it and some are very understanding! but its never encouraging us, so its a bit exaggerating in dat part! but hey we are all God's people and we should all love one another! We are all made out of God's own image. so if u call someone names, remember ur calling God names!!! think about it....

[vaiaisa]

This is an unbelievable exploitation of indigenous people. Stop making up crap about us and just ask us. Margaret Mead made up some incredulous things about Samoan people, because Samoans did not respect her field of "anthropology". This idiot anthropologist did not at all realize that these Fa'afafine was making up a story to be interesting to her. I am an advocate for transgender rights and lies like this documentary spreads only further surpesses those rights.

[PUTANGINAMOGAGUKAPA]

being a gay or a faggot is an abnormality

[igetitmaaan]

Hahaha - 8:53 "I will Neva, Neva, NEVAAA!" LOL

[miamivicepastels83]

@vaiaisa what is the truth then because without the documentary i wouldnt have even known what it is

[samoasian219]

honestly they have no idea what they're talking about. samoans dont raise their sons to be a fa'afafine and not all samoans accept the fa'afafine life style. while i was living in samoa most of the fa'afafine in my school were bullied and beaten either by other boys or their fathers. i find this offensive for them to say that we raise our boys as fa'afafine is so wrong!!

[funkgerat]

It's fascinating to see how adamant children can be about gender, whether they are cis- or transgendered.

[Zeebo89]

LOL 5:46 I was born dancing and i love dancing LMFAO

[tgozanski]

So what is the lie? And what is so offensive about Mead's comments regarding the fa fafines? How are they being exploited? Back your shit up so others get what your talking about you idiot.

[pharyngealized]

@IamFreeRu

looks like your opinions are controlled by the scriptures written by ignorant superstitious men of the desert.

[mrcuteblackie]

All this is a test from God, or the gods, or Krishna, or our Buddha-minds, or Shiva. So long as our minds keep judging, more and more situations to provoque our judgement appears. Once we deal with our own minds and find peace, even the concept of "allowing each person to live the way they want" do not arise, because there would be no need to it. Can humanity not be trained in the right direction, instead of focusing on vanity?

[BeyondTheLimitations]

Every one has a right to create and live the life they wish - it is there god given right,cosmic right, human right - politicians, religious institutions has no right to say what people should or shouldn't do with their OWN lives. Killing other people is wrong - transgender into woman and man - dosent kill any one, they just live as they wish, who you are you to judge them what to do them with their OWN lives? Judge not and ya shall not be judged the same way.