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Puzzlesocks t1_iw420sq wrote

False equivocation doesn't work on me. If you want to try being manipulative, go do it to someone else. It doesn't help your argument nor provide any evidence. Sex and gender being separate is true, but just means guys can be feminine and girls can be masculine. It does not mean that these things are arbitrary categorizations.
I mean if you actually are trans, you should know better than anyone that we call these "treatments" feminizing and masculinizing for a reason. You aren't changing your sex, you are changing how you appear to others. You don't get to destroy other peoples protected categories without reprisal just because of your feelings.

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Curious4NotGood t1_iw43fz7 wrote

> Sex and gender being separate is true, but just means guys can be feminine and girls can be masculine.

Nope, it means males can be women, and females can be men.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/gender-matters/sex-and-gender

https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/articles/whatisthedifferencebetweensexandgender/2019-02-21

>It does not mean that these things are arbitrary categorizations.

They are

>I mean if you actually are trans, you should know better than anyone that we call these "treatments" feminizing and masculinizing for a reason.

That's just faulty naming, feminizing is a biological term, while being feminine is a behavior. Unless you think all feminine men have vaginas.

>You aren't changing your sex, you are changing how you appear to others.

You're changing a lot of your sex as well, sex is a lotta things, primary sex characterestics (chromosomes, hormones, organs) and secondary characterestics (body fat ratio, metabolism, hair growth, voice, breast growth, etc).

And every one of them changes with hormones and surgery except for chromosomes.

>You don't get to destroy other peoples protected categories without reprisal just because of your feelings.

Exactly, trans women deserve the same as cis women, because trans women are women, regardless of how you feel about it.

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Puzzlesocks t1_iw4cny6 wrote

So, the Canadian link agrees with me except it makes a caveat that gender can change how it's expressed depending on different factors, again true. That's completely different from saying it doesn't exist. It doesn't mean they are arbitrary and can be changed at will to whatever you want. All it ends up meaning is that you are swimming against a torrential waterfall of evidence against you so you can try to convince society that men and women aren't different. Good luck with that.

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The UK link you sent me is utopian dogma. I mean seriously? "SDGs are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030". They got 7 years to establish world peace, destroy capitalism, end climate change, and destroy observable reality. I guess I wish them luck?

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As for the third link from the council of Europe... it specifically states that the new usage of the word gender is meant to fight against biological determinism. While I disagree with what some proponents of biological determinism state (in the same way I disagree on the trans issue, people drawing causation from correlation), you would be incredibly ignorant on these topics to think genetics doesn't play a role in literally everything about you. Your lack of ANY biological knowledge is actually mind blowing to me.

I know I won't change your mind, and I don't intend to respond again to a militant ideologue. I just want to suggest you really think about your actions and read The Art of War. The way you activist types are going about this is at best a 50/50 shot of self destruction, but more than likely you're just going to radicalize people to the point that whatever imagined violence you see now is going to turn much more real and much more harsh. Your dogmatic attitude is going to hurt untold numbers of uninvolved and very real people, and I intend to fight it so long as it exists.

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Curious4NotGood t1_iw6h4w8 wrote

If you disagree with scientific evidence, doesn't make the evidence not true.

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