You're missing the point:
I understand your point, I simply disagree, as do the scientific and medical communities. One's gender is independent of their sex, and, subject the limitations of medical technology (can't change chromosomes, for instance), one can also change their sex to match their gender identity, if they so choose.
I find this highly unbelievable, because it's been happening for hundreds of years.
No, it isn't.
What she didn't also understand is all those people before 2007 could come out NOW since it is praised, but they don't...because it wasn't a social contagion. Mostly social contagion with most wanting to reverse it or wish they never tranny acted. Too much time wasted with her already
a person can choose whatever gender they want, including unicorn. But if they tell me they're a unicorn, I'm going to say "No, you're not". This despite them believing with all of their being, that they're a unicorn.
I agree, although I'd argue it's less about choice and more about a deep understanding of one's personal identity. This isn't done willy-nilly. Regardless, I'm glad we've come to an understanding.
Unicorn is not a gender, so this is irrelevant, but your argument seems to be "you can identify however you want, but I'm still allowed to be a dick about it." Which, I guess, you're right. You're allowed to be as much of a dick as you want to be. But, that's you on an individual level. The trans rights issue is about how people are treated by the institutions of a society. Individuals are allowed to be racist -- they're ALSO being dicks if they are -- but they're not allowed to, for instance, deny someone a job because of that person's race.
In these four sentences, you've used "they" or "their" as a singular 4 times. So I guess you don't have a problem with it after all. Also, I don't believe you'd ever do anything to stop a trans person going into the restroom that you've decided is the wrong one for them, even if you knew some random person about to walk in there was trans. What are you going to do, set up a genital checking station outside the restroom until your daughters come back out? Trans people have been using the restroom they want forever, long before the Republicans started fear-mongering that they were SA-ing people all the time in there, have you EVER tried to stop someone? But also, just let people pee in peace for crying out loud.
How's this: "Hey, someone left their coat on the coat rack."
what she doesn't know is my fifth wife wanted to be a tranny and also wanted me to be a tranny because she said she heard it was better to give than receive! My last year at Purdue two mechanical, one chemical and one psychology major shared an apartment and of course the psychology major was the odd one out. He went to Mexifornia and couldn't get a job since he knew nothing of value. Went back to school as a CS major
Can you stop using slurs? I mean, I know it makes you feel superior and all, but seriously, you wouldn't come on here and use the n-word in post after post, right?
This forum does absolutely NOTHING to alter what I think about myself. It does however make me question if there are more gullible in the population than I used to believe...even if I discount mail ballot fraud.
"This forum doesn't make me feel superior, but it does show me that there are more people who are inferior to me than I thought there were."
Helluva non sequitur.
So you DIDN'T look it up or acknowledge that you used singular "they" yourself four times in your previous post, cool.
Yes, it's you being a dick. "Acknowledging your personal identity makes me feel weird, so I'm not going to do it. You are who and what I say you are."
Are you trans?
Are you?
So what's the minimum percentage of the population that a group must be for their issues to be considered by society at large?
It's not about what you "want to believe," it's about the manner in which you are saying you would treat other people that would make you a dick. It's about what you do, not what you think. Now, if you're just talking a big game and would actually chicken out from, say, stopping someone you think is trans from going into the "wrong" restroom or purposefully calling someone the wrong gender, or wrong name, or whatever, then you're not ACTUALLY a dick, you're just making yourself look tough in this forum by saying you WANT to be a dick. You never did tell me if you would tell someone who changed their eyes from brown to blue that they REALLY have brown eyes, despite what they tell you.
It's not hard to understand, it's just wrong, because the roles of "man" and "women" as they relate to gender are socially-constructed. They are not biologically determined nor inherent, as evidenced by the fact that other societies have existed (and still exist) that have different concepts of gender.
Why can't I say "race and gender aren't the same thing?" Because race and gender AREN'T the same thing, except inasmuch as race (or at least differences in skin tone) is also representative of variation within the species.
I don't know what Gaza protests have to do with anything in this discussion. But, do you agree that societal norms and views of right vs. wrong change (and have always changed) over time?
Ha ha. No, definitely not.
Greater than 0.018% (NIH study statistic)
I don't care if someone changes their eye color. Whether they have brown or blues eyes doesn't matter.
Wrong. In a functioning society, there are gender roles. Sure, you can pull out some random society in a third world country as an example of blurred gender roles, but 3rd world countries are that way for a reason.
How is a white person claiming to feel and believe they're actually black any different than a man claiming to feel and believe that they're a woman? It's exactly the same thing.
The point was that these people that are pro-hamas and protesting Israel weren't raised by parents that believe in societal rules.
Ok, cool, so you've determined a number based specifically on the number of intersex people and you have now taken the position that, based on that number, society should not concern itself with the issues intersex people face. But, based on this number, you have also taken the position that we should consider transgender people, who make up (conservatively) 0.5%, and perhaps as high as 1.6% (Pew Research study). Progress, I suppose.
I didn't ask if you cared, I asked if you would deny to that person that their eyes are now blue.
So you think having a different concept of gender is the cause of "third-world"-ness? Let's see you make that case.
We don't have prescribed societal roles for people from different races.
I've not pushed back on your personal belief. I've asked what you think SOCIETY should do with the question of, for instance, whether someone should be allowed to deny a job to a transgender person on the basis of them being transgender. But it is interesting that you claim to "know" what's going on inside another person's head with regards to their own personal identity. I don't know how you could possibly ever know that.
Guess away. It's not worth addressing here because that's not what we're talking about.
I didn't say gender was a third world phenomenon. I said that there may be societies where gender is viewed very differently than they are in most first world countries. But, that doesn't make them right. Just like they're probably not right on a lot of things, which is why they stay as third world.
So should new buildings be required to be built with wheelchair access?
First-world countries having a particular view doesn't make them right, either, though, right? Like, economic success and, for instance, immorality are not mutually-exclusive. Hypothetically, can third-world countries be right about something that first-world countries are wrong about, despite the two countries' respective economic status?
Wait, you hire people for a living but you're unaware that there are laws against employment discrimination? Seems like a dereliction of duty, to me.
