I love how every time I bring up the whole "male, female, or genetic mistake" people always post the same few articles from either a university in California, or Canada in their defense.
Of course it's always California and Canada - the two places it's illegal to misgender someone.
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Section 5 of the Public Order Act. Malicious Communications Act. Sex Discrimination Act.
Speaking as a Brit - where there are now more LGBT MPs in Parliament than ever since elections a few years ago; so many straight people agree, don't bother them about it - I've annihilated your 'argument' in more ways than one: and there's less than fuck all you can do about it.
Yeah, you’ve no actual right to call anyone genetic mistake, much less functioning, fully developed adults.
Now, curiously enough, beyond being intersexed, I also happened to get a much better developed taste buds and sense of smell than over 99% of our species, a clear cut advantage any way you spin it, just as much of a “genetic mistake” as my XXY chromosomes. Your genetic mistakes are how our species even came to be in the first place, though of course you woudln’t know any of that.
Hi! I’m a tetrachromat! That means I can see subtler shades of colors across most of the spectrum than the majority of people, who are trichromats! And yet, this is just as much of a “mistake” as partial color blindness! And no, I can’t tell you how the experience of it is different from seeing “normally”, but I imagine being a trichromat’s kind of dull in comparison, and wouldn’t care to change it just to be “normal”! Seriously, screw differencephobes!
Oh yeah, and most of the major trans studies in North America are being done in San Fransisco or Toronto, and it’s only in the past few decades that they’re being studied as people and not as severely disturbed mental patients, so what would you expect?
@Zinnia
I can imagine it’s like me being able to smell pheromones, can’t really describe this properly to someone who can’t since it’s nothing like their perception even has a term for. Also, reducing myself to “normal” in this case would feel like having an organ ripped out of your body. I can know because whenever I catch a cold, my nose clogs and I’m a half-awake, constantly terrified and frustrated animal.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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