[quote Millicispud]@waterlego
Took me a little bit to work out to be honest, and as I said, some people don't discover their sexuality until later in life.
But I mean, I wasn't expecting a "gender critical" cultist to understand or even pretend to care about lesbians.
@BaronessEllarawrosaurus
You know those online quizzes are completely worthless and just there to harvest your data and sell it on to advertises right?
Is that really where you all think you're agender? 🤣🤣[/quote]
Many (most, of those who are high profile), GC feminists are lesbians.
Moving on.
People used to refer to 'sex changes' (you concur that sex is immutable) and 'transsexual' (same). There was no alternative, because gender was a grammar term only. Gender, in the sense you're using it, is a really recent idea. You're saying that you believe that everyone has a personal, and therefore subjective and unprovable, sense of gender, which is detached from their physical and sexed body (even though our brains are, by definition, part of our body - we can have no disembodied thoughts). So effectively, you mean a soul. You think people have soul-genders, and while you don't link that to an external deity, you do link it to an inner essence that nobody else can ever experience, nor prove.
Is 'a personal sense of self' you can't identify, explain or justify in any way worth dismantling women's sport, women's shelters, single sex prisons, and even women's right to collectively organise as a sex? If transwomen have the same violence patterns, collectively, as other males (where 95% of those in prisons, and 99% of those in prisons for sex offences, are male) then why do women have no right to say that male people remain male people, regardless of a personal (and therefore by definition unprovable and subjective) belief and they want single sex spaces to remain that way? You've been very anxious to assure us that you are an educated person. Have you read the above documents? What about the book, Trans? I mean, only an ignorant person would hold a dogmatic position without bothering to understand the opposing case. Dangerous thing, confirmation bias. So what did you find unconvincing?
I respect the sincerity of other people's faith beliefs, even if I can't personally share them. But why should we be forced to live by your faith, or be deemed reprobates? Isn't that the essence of fundamentalism?
You used the phrase 'oftentimes'. That makes me think you are from the States. Did you know that the women who complained at Wi Spa, who were attacked for making it up, for being hateful - in fact were protesting about a known convicted sex offender, with a rap sheet dating back 20 years? Are they owed an apology? What happened to 'believe women'?
I do have one more question. If sex doesn't make someone a man or a woman, and is a completely different thing - then what's all the focus on getting hormones, and complex and dangerous plastic surgeries, to more closely resemble the opposite sex in what can ever be a very superficial way? If gender is a soul-based belief, personal to each person, then why have a surgery that castrates someone and makes them 50% or so likely to have functional incontinence afterwards? Why give children drugs that cause known risks to bone density, brain and social development, and even possibly IQ, when with watchful waiting almost all will grow out of dysphoria, yet with those drugs almost all progress to becoming lifelong patients with those risks and complications?
Can you explain that, as a medical professional?