That Gay Thread

[The Architect Of Fate]

No one denies that these people exist. That's silly. 

Plenty of people deny they exist as trans people so no it's not silly.

They disagree on the definition of gender or sex,

There is no disagreement sex and gender are different things. This has been the case for decades and denial of that is a denial of trans people.

 

disagree that gender or sex can be changed. 

Gender is a social construction thus it can be changed. To deny this is to deny the existence of trans people

It's all semantics.

Nope, if you don't accept gender can change, and denying gender and sex are distinct you are denying the existence of trans people, And that is awful because they are distinct and it can change these are facts that cannot be denied.

 Who cares if these people have stuck with an outdated definition of gender?

We should care because those definitions influence their treatment of trans people.

 Let them be ignorant. 

How about no and we either inform them and if they continue to deny it we make damn sure their bigotry isn't allowed to fuck over trans people.

You shouldn't get to force people to use the same definition of words that you use just because outdated language makes you uncomfortable.

Transpeople have every right to demand respect and transphobes have no right to insist we respect their archaic ignorance in the face of facts.

It's not wrong to tell a boy to be a man. 

Yes, it is. No one should be telling boys to be anything. They decide who they are.

You should teach your son to be strong minded, 

You don't need to be a man to be strong-minded they can be strong-minded as whoever they are.

so he can stand up for himself, defend himself and eventually take care of and protect his family.

None of these traits are exclusive to men nor do any of them require any mention of being a man.

 How are those toxic things?

They aren't but telling young boys that they need to be a man to be any of the above is.

 If the lessons don't stick and the boy ends up super sensitive and anxious or whatever,

Bullshit

 then that's fine and you accept the boy as he is, but that doesn't mean you give up from the start without at least attempting to help him become a strong-minded man who won't get walked over in life.

Strong-mindedness has nothing to do with masculinity