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Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 1:03 am
This just popped up across my facebook feed tonight. I looked it up and she seems to be serious.... even if she doesn't look much like a 'she' at the moment. Here's a screen cap I got:
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Thoughts?
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 2:29 am
I don't wanna sound offensive, but why should I care what sex he/she identifies?
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 2:40 am
Honestly this fuckin idiot hurts the atheist cause. Just complies with what the theists try to portray us as. Fringe weirdos.
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 3:35 am
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(November 18, 2014 at 2:40 am)YoungCapitalist Wrote: Honestly this fuckin idiot hurts the atheist cause. Just complies with what the theists try to portray us as. Fringe weirdos.
You're right, and to be on the safe side, let's better lock James Randi into a dungeon lest people might think that skepticism has the ghey! Better yet, let's ban all the uppity women in the movement lest the fundies think that atheists do not share their bigotry. Heaven forbid if they are put off by our apparent openness and 21st century attitudes. After all, all progress is achieved by throwing minorities under the bus in order to appease the bigots. Works every time.
Come on, you can do better. How about starting to view people as actual human beings, and take it from there?
Do you even realize how you hurt people on this forum with your thoughtless attitude? You may even have participated in threads with these fringe weirdos without knowing. Shocking, eh? Better clean your browser with soap, and get a priest to bless it to remove the icky. An apology might be in order.
Thoughts... not many, except hoping that all goes well.
(November 18, 2014 at 1:03 am)TaraJo Wrote: even if she doesn't look much like a 'she' at the moment. Here's a screen cap I got:
Well, that is a very stylish and well trimmed beard. I could not achieve such if I tried 
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 11:04 am
(November 18, 2014 at 2:40 am)YoungCapitalist Wrote: Honestly this fuckin idiot hurts the atheist cause. Just complies with what the theists try to portray us as. Fringe weirdos.
So, are you calling me a "fringe weirdo?"
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 11:11 am
It's not at all unusual for people to identify as trans a bit "later" in life.
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 11:17 am
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Probably the whole reason she came out is because she expects atheists to be more tolerable. I don't think it hurts the atheist cause to have people that theists typically look down on.
I don't understand transgenderism. I don't know what makes people think this isn't just a mental illness, since I don't care to research it. However, if someone want to do it, and spend their money to make themself look like what they feel on the inside, I say let them. It's like stories I've heard where people think one of their limbs is an extra limb that shouldn't be there. If they have it removed, they're happier. We don't understand that, but the brain can do weird things that don't make sense to most people.
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 11:20 am
Chad, some transgender people don't spend a dime on changing themselves physically, although most will at the very least take hormone replacement therapy.
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 11:22 am
Ok. That doesn't matter to me either. If Danielle decides to stay as is, even including the facial hair, it's no skin off my back.
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RE: Public relations director or American Atheists comes out as transgender
November 18, 2014 at 11:29 am
On the other hand, the impulse to marginalize any of us for any of our peculiarities fuels an impulse which is better left on untouched.
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