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Not enough virtue signaling here.
Just because virtue signaling can be a bad thing doesn't mean that signalling ones lack of virtue is a good thing.
 
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I just love how my one time mention of "cis gendered" has completely derailed the thread and has every conservative talking about transgenders, drag queen story hour in libraries and legal homosexuality leading to sex with dogs and children. It seems to me like some conservatives care for nothing but other people's genitals and what they do with them.
 
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"Gay" is never used in it's original meaning and there aren't synonyms that are sufficient to take it's place.
How about "happy" or "joyful"?
 
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Conservatives are just pointing out all the weirdness instead of pretending it's not bizarre.
 
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You obviously don't know much about it outside of the standard generic spiel and what you're making up as you go along.
 
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You obviously don't know much about it outside of the standard generic spiel and what you're making up as you go along.
What "standard generic spiel" are you referring to? I never gave one.

I've described what gender identity is, to the best of my ability. If you still don't understand, feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to explain. Similarly, if you feel I "don't know much about it," feel free to explain what I've missed. You can start by saying who "officially" designates gender identities, and where I can find the "official" list of standardized definitions.

From where I'm standing, you seem to be the one who misunderstands gender identity. Which would go a long way toward explaining why you call it "baloney," since you don't seem to even know what it is.

-- A2SG, but feel free to explain it...if you can....
 
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I'm a woman. Sigh.

There used to be men too.

The rest is nonsense unless they have a medical issue but then they wouldn't identify as the medical issue, they'd fix said medical issue and either be male or female.

I don't want to treat someone according to their sex life, I just want to have whatever interaction with the person in front of me.

Deciding we should identify ourselves in accordance to proclivities someone has in the bedroom is nonsense. That's not who someone is.

People don't go around asking for special nymphomaniac treatment at work. What's that? Lol... how many times does that come up in the office?
 
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Conservatives are just pointing out all the weirdness instead of pretending it's not bizarre.
Conservatives are going off-topic at the slightest provocation concerning gender issues, is what they do.
 
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You're talking about a person's sex. Their biology. What genitalia they have.

Gender identity is something different. It's part of one's identity, not their biology.

Some people like to pretend they are the same thing, because for them, their identity matches their genitalia. This isn't the case for everyone. Honestly, if some people would just accept the idea that not everyone sees the world the same way they do, we'd have a lot less problems and a lot less confusion about these things.

-- A2SG, seem to be a lot of Horatios out there....
 
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Gender identity is something different. It's part of one's identity, not their biology

It's not part of my identity.

I don't, honestly don't understand this. Your biological gender is a physical reality...

Beyond that it's not much. The body your born in might determine whether being a mother is an option for you but if the body your born says nope, your not gonna be a mother then .. you know. There's a limit on that option.

To my ears a lot of very greedy medical professionals have brainwashed a generation into believing the immutable things about themselves aren't immutable at all in order to take advantage of people and get rich off of sex change operations and mental health treatment.

That's what this is.
 
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It's not part of my identity.
Yes, it is. It's in how you see yourself as a woman, and how you act and present yourself to the world as a woman. It's not all of your personality, but it is a part of it.

I don't, honestly don't understand this. Your biological gender is a physical reality...
This is why the distinction is made between the words "gender" and "sex." Gender refers to your identity, sex refers to your biology. In short, you express your gender in the way you dress and act. Your sex is your genitalia and biology.

For most people, the two match. For some, it doesn't. We use these terms differently to acknowledge and recognize that fact.

Beyond that it's not much. The body your born in might determine whether being a mother is an option for you but if the body your born says nope, your not gonna be a mother then .. you know. There's a limit on that option.
But your body doesn't determine if you will like frilly dresses or work boots, or if you play with barbie dolls or Tonka trucks.

Or...medical professionals have come to realize that some people cannot function, or even simply feel comfortable in the body they were born with, and have found medical ways to help them.

Just depends on how you choose to look at it.

Or, I guess, it depends on whether you prefer people to be who you want them to be, or who they want to be, themselves.

-- A2SG, don't make the mistake of thinking everyone feels like you do...
 
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Conservatives are just pointing out all the weirdness instead of pretending it's not bizarre.
Yea, like when one of your leading Christian conservatives came on TV and showed us enlarged pictures of Hunter Biden naked and having sex with a prostitute while the Freedom Caucus drooled. But I bet that was a lot more fun than merely having fantasies about drag queens having sex with animals and stuff like that.
 
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But your body doesn't determine if you will like frilly dresses or work boots, or if you play with barbie dolls or Tonka trucks.

It never has!

Why should that change except to enrich quacks and butchers!!?!
 
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It never has!

Why should that change except to enrich quacks and butchers!!?!
Because in some cases it has been found more useful to the patient to change the body rather than expect the mind to come to terms with it,.
 
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Not necessary when discussing people if you just use the word transgender everyone knows who you are talking about. Everyone else is not transgender.
Not necessary, but convenient. The word has utility. And it is not a slur.
And feel free to use use whatever term you want. It's a free country.
Gosh, thank you for your permission.
 
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Because in some cases it has been found more useful to the patient to change the body rather than expect the mind to come to terms with it,.

You're taking the rarest of mental health exceptions, we are talking really rare exceptions, taken those exceptions into the public sphere and are wanting to tell little kids in kindergarten - not that they can have any career they choose when they grow up and encourage thinking towards adulthood nooo... They want to teach them they can be any gender?

Really? No... Just no.

That's stupid quackery... And far more dangerous to kids than snake oil.
 
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No, nobody is doing that, that is just a lurid fantasy that the Christian Right likes to wallow in.
 
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It never has!

Why should that change except to enrich quacks and butchers!!?!
You'd have to ask someone who feels they need those changes.

How can you say they don't need the changes if you're not them?

-- A2SG, remember Horatio...
 
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