Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues

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One can be aware that trans people exist without also accepting that existence gives them an inherent right to define themselves and their place in society - particularly if it comes at the cost of others.

1) We all define ourselves, rights or no. I don't need or ask your approval to define myself as I am. I possess that right simply by the fact that I exist. If you don't like how I define myself, go suck a bag of taints. You don't have a say in anyone else's self-definition.

2) This idea that transfolk defining themselves as such has a "cost" to you is really weak shit, snowflake. What is it hurting you?

I'm not trans but I'm really big on John Donne:

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

Should you desire to wash away the rights of others, you ought to expect that your own rights will in kind be washed away as well. Rather than push your religious bias upon others, you should learn how to live and let live.