Their condition is a mental illness. If they want to live their life as a delusion, that’s their choice. You cannot force everyone to accept it.
Those services have been proven to be harmful. Even after transitioning many of them are still deeply unhappy and suicidal.
Real harm has been done to kids. Are the schools teaching that? Are the schools teaching them about the facts there is no reliable evidence that this actually helps them? Are they being taught all the detrimental effects of transitioning? Are they being taught,
Breathing is a biological necessity. Gender fluidity is not. People choose all kinds of lifestyles, belief systems etc. Those things are often ideological in nature. And we make choices based upon those things. They are free to believe how they wish and be fluid if they wish. No one is trying to stop them from doing so.
That's being done in other countries. It should be in done in the US as well. It would of course require the closing of all our gender clinics and end the medicalization of that sailed ship you talked about. No more walking into a clinic and getting blockers and hormones.
I hope so. I nice unicorn with a rainbow doesn't teach kids the reality of the real mental.health problems of those things. It just slaps a pretty bow on a very detrimental issue to people's health and welfare.
Absolutely. We in the religious community know our faith is based on faith and belief. We have personal.experiences with God and Christ, but we've never actually seen God or Christ with our own eyes. We have scripture that tell us what Christ said and tells us what God wants us to know. But we know it's based on faith. I didn't see Christ raise from the dead. I haven't seen heaven. Even the scripture tells us we belive by faith. And unless you want us to be able to teach that to your kids then you should probably not want the faith based gender ideology taught to them either.
In essence yes they are. Social media, the media, and education is doing exactly that.
But faiths are expressly covered in the Constitution/Bill of Rights, believers are protected from overreach by government. You are arguing that transfolk aren’t so covered.
But if they’re not, then government can “help” their “cause” by crafting policy that expressly protects them from folk who have an ideological bent on keeping them marginalized and sequestered from the rest of our society.
If we as a society started calling canines “cats” and felines “dogs”, there would be some people on this forum that would climb on top of their houses and scream at the top of their lungs that its wrong and they’re not going to accept it. And then there’s the normal people who would say “oh, this is how we’re using those words now? I guess I’ll have to get used to it.”
It really isn't.
An anecdote isn't considered evidence for a broader issue, but it can be evidence for that one, singular instance. Which is all it needs to be.
If I say I'm hungry, what evidence do you need to support, or to refute, thst claim?
Only to you.
Nope.
If you like. A more naturalistic minded person might say the mind, or the brain, though. But either way, it's subjective, and cannot be empirically determined by any objective testing method.
For something that is subjective in nature, that's all the evidence that's possible.
Words can change meanings over time, based on usage. The word "gay," for example, doesn't mean the same thing today it did a hundred years ago.
The term "gender" has come to mean something different from the term "sex" as we've learned, over time, that the two aren't exactly the same thing.
When words change meaning organically over time, that's fine. When words are astroturfed for political purposes, that's not fine. Suggessted reading: George Orwell's Politics And The English Language.
Words have meanings. That’s why there are dictionaries. Tell an English professor it’s childish and idiotic that someone can define any words they want it to be and see what their response is.
Absolutely! Gender roles are social constructs. Not gender itself.
