Truly the gods are cruel
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Truly the gods are cruel
a lot of use to me, but still.
Anyway, what does this have to do with transgenders?
variation. How can you be so sure?
that there is such a thing as transgender. Certainly there may well be a biological reason why these people are as they are, but there are biological reasons for many delusions - including schizophrenia. No such biochemical imbalance or dysfunction can make a man a woman or vice versa - any more than paranoid schizophrenia means you are actually talking to God or are Napoleon or whatever.
Of course, I may be wrong. However, there is no evidence to prove me wrong as things stand, but despite that, it is increasingly socially unacceptable to express my doubts and reservations on this matter.
That capacity for one group who - lest we forget - may well be delusional to shut down debate is a deeply worrying precedent, I would have thought.
push to shut down petty and callous treatment of these people, among which I would count someone who stubbornly refuses to use a biologically accurate pronoun against someone's wishes.
No-one is getting sacked for raising legitimate science-based questions about these people and their 'condition'.
I don't think anyone should be losing their job for calling a man a man.
write such a thing.
Now I'm shaking my head a bit.
Now I've spat at my monitor :-(
than a lie. And it is a lie - you may consider it a white lie, but lies have a habit of proliferating.
You need to ask yourself where that lie leads? And the answer is men being allowed to use female changing and lavatory facilities, be imprisoned in female prisons, join female sports teams and sundry other absurdities. Why? Because well-meaning people like you make it impossible to stop the insanity and say 'BECAUSE YOU ARE A MAN' when these people ask why they shouldn't be treated in exactly the same way as women.
Truth is not something to be taken too lightly. When we insist that our media, politicians and other public figures tell an outright lie in the name of 'niceness', then we start to devalue - or at least render negotiable - the idea of truth itself. That is not merely irritating, it is genuinely dangerous.
to be treated with the same tact and empathy that I am fairly sure you would afford any other mentally ill person.
I think if you remove the grandstanding on your part, we aren't too far apart on this subject at all.
such a way :shrug:
However, there is a massive difference between treating a tiny segment of aberrant people with tact and empathy and trying to make everyone pretend the world is other than it is in order to make them feel better about their aberration. We don't pretend cripples can run or that blindoids can see, so why should we pretend that a man is a woman?
the ways in which you describe. They are an oppressed minority group and deserve protection :shrug:
discrimination?
If your definition of non-discrimination means a six foot man should be able to walk into a social situation or job interview, dressed like a woman with a woman's name and expect no-one to bat an eyelid or react or act as if there's something amiss, then I'm afraid you're asking too much of your fellow human beings. You might as well insist that David Icke has the right to be taken seriously when he tells us we're ruled by lizards.
by and large don't have to put up with anymore. A shifting of then needle in social etiquette.
That would be a reasonable end-point, I think.
General good manners should take care of that, though, surely? However, there is always going to be a certain amount awkwardness when you ask people to undergo a process of cognitive dissonance where what they're seeing and hearing goes against what they're thinking like that.
Anyway, at what point do we just accept that some people are going to get a raw deal? What about ugly people, for instance? In the sense you mean it, ugly people are discriminated against far more commonly than transgenders are, but where's their lobby? And it's even worse for the stupid and ugly.
in the sense that they are generally surrounded by other unattractive people and by virtue of this enjoy a certain immunity from explicit social ridicule.
So I don't think that is a meaningful social issue. People who are ugly due to deformities, of course, is a different matter.