This issue and transgendered people are apples and oranges. This is someone claiming they are something they're objectively not, and a transgender person is someone choosing to identify with what they objectively are. fMRI scans have shown clear brain structure and pathway differences for transgendered patients. A FtM's brain is more closely wired like a man's, and vice versa. This is not demanding a label. This is accepting what your brain has been hammering you with since you were as young as 5.
You saying you understand this topic is belied by your comparisons and your conflation of gender dysphoria with cross dressing or femininity. It's neither. Gender is different than sex.
This is a new issue, though, in the national spotlight. I agree that the PC Police demanding correct pronouns and slamming anyone who doesn't comply immediately doesn't help anything. My question is always, once you know someone is dealing with this, why not call them what they ask you to call them? The only reasons not to are either the ick factor or acting intentional.
You saying you understand this topic is belied by your comparisons and your conflation of gender dysphoria with cross dressing or femininity. It's neither. Gender is different than sex.
This is a new issue, though, in the national spotlight. I agree that the PC Police demanding correct pronouns and slamming anyone who doesn't comply immediately doesn't help anything. My question is always, once you know someone is dealing with this, why not call them what they ask you to call them? The only reasons not to are either the ick factor or acting intentional.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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