Male or female???

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Comparing the word disordered to the word nigger is a hell of a jump, especially considering that the medical community did not sit around trying to think up words that offend you. Your explanation does indeed give me some insight on why you are offended, but again my only point was that the actual word disorder was not cooked up to insult, belittle or chastise a person of your irregular condition.

Is it really? I think not. Whatever a word is 'cooked up as', consider the environment I left but scarce years ago: highschool. It's growing to be quite insulting indeed. It's even entering into the world of young college

In the history of the world, I highly doubt that calling someone disordered as a way of insulting them has ever happened during a heated argument. I'm more than willing to call you whatever you wish to be called, but I'm sorry, you have not proven to me that there is any malice whatsoever in a merely descriptive word assigned by the scientific medical community.

Not all insults are used in a heated argument. No, 'freak' is usually the preferred heated form of 'disordered'. Plenty of insults are used quite cooly, and this is one of them. 'Mentally challenged' is another.

I told you, it is not 'merely' a descriptive word of medical conditions. It is now also an insult. Just as "retarded" is not only an insult: it is a way to describe things that are slow. Fun, isn't this thing called language, which if it isn't Latin is constantly evolving

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As someone with several (mental) disorders, I'm not offended in the least by the term. I can't say that I can necessarily understand Sae's position as my issues have nothing to do with gender identity - I can only try (and I would probably fall short).

I personally do not find the term offensive, but I do understand that some do. Like Sae, my condition(s) have a significant degree of social stigma and misunderstanding attached to them.

"Disorder" to me (and as I understand how it is used in the medical community) simply implies that the condition is a functional disturbance - which in my case is quite true.

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Perhaps it's something unique to Alaska, as I haven't seen it here yet. Were you the school's primary source of mockery, or were you treated as an aside from the main scapegoats?

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Not unlike homosexuality, girls born with a penis or guys born with vaginas and titties.
I don't see why anyone is offended by this. I'd say disordered is a fair description of an anomaly in nature. Period.

I see nothing out of order with something simply because it doesn't often occur. Again, irregularity is the better word to describe it for what it is.

Nope. It's between the legs.

Gender's in the brain. If I cut off your penis are you no longer a man? I'd be particularly motivated to test this out according to volunteer test subjects should you answer 'yes'

If what is between the ears does not match what is between the legs, it is what is between the ears that carries the irregularity or anomaly.

Irregularity, abnormality, anomaly, disorder. They're called synonyms.

It's the combination of the two that is together an anomaly, as the genders of man/woman (in the brain) is quite common, and so are penises and vaginas. I see a lot more wrong with my body than a penis, but I'm working on it, just as 'fat girls' might work on becoming thinner, or as many (young) women use concealer to hide pimples

Also, all synonyms are not made equal. Collosal, big, huge, and towering could all be used to describe something large... but they specify particulars and cannot always be used to replace each other.

It's called word usage.