I think they specifically meant responding in the talk page, since that's what the Talk page is for.
MemoryAlpha editor refuses to change Adira's Gender to "Non-Binary"
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More or less, when you describe gender that’s gender roles now. The idea that men have certain traits and women have certain traits. That’s entirely social and changes over time and across other cultures. The easiest way to describe it is sex is what’s between your legs and gender is what between your ears. While some people are gender fluid and can change over time or even a day, for most people gender is essentially hardwired into our brains. Usually setting in around age 5 or 6 when children figure out there is a difference between the sexes. This is also when trans people tend to realize something isn’t quite right. I remember being in Kindergarten and being really confused why I had to line up with the boys instead of the girls to go the restroom or whatever else they would line us up for. I don’t even know how else to explain but anytime I had to perform any role or be referred to as a male, it would feel wrong. Over time it developed into worse feelings that made my teenage years and 20s into a very dark time.
In regards to that I'm pretty sure Alfatango is
From what I’ve read when the actors who play Adira and Gray first came on set the two of them took them under their wings due to their age and this being their first major roles. I think that shows through in the performances with Stamets just immediately going into dad mode with Adira to the point where he was mad at Gray for not appearing because of how much it bothered Adira.
I totally agree. This is an amazing thing.
When Grey first appeared in the holo I really got excited for the rest of the episode and that line just made it really feel like Star Trek . It made me feel really happy for the rest of the episode.
Actually science and medical doctors have backed up everything trans people report about their experience. You claim this dogshit is 100% science, it is if you have an understanding of biology that ended at age 12.
From Scientific America.
The article goes into detail about how sex and gender is expressed in our genes and how the notion of sex being binary is a childlike simplification meant only to explain what chromosomes are.
If you want to claim something is science, you might want to actually look it up first. It’s so easy.
Here’s one.
Gene variants provide insight into brain, body incongruence in transgender
Here’s another.
Science of Transgender Identity
Shall I continue? You can Google this yourself, but I doubt you care about actual 100% science or you would’ve checked before posting something easily proven wrong.
I don't think it's transphobic to accept the fact that biological sex is real or to think that biological sex should be noted in a character's infobox. People have a variety of opinions on the subject, but when you call someone transphobic and they know they aren't, they'll just think you're a crazy SJW and stop listening to anything you have to say.
To Court Vince and any other non-binary people on this thread, I invite you to participate in the discussion at Talk:Adira Tal. If listing Adira's biological sex distresses you, please explain why. We've had lots of comments from allies, but I don't think we've had one from an actual non-binary person yet (yes, I know now that some of them posted on twitter, I'm referring to the actual discussion page).
I go by the username NetSpiker on Memory Alpha.
By the way, I did try to get Archduk3 removed as an admin for reasons that had nothing to do with the current issue. You can read about it here.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's nothing wrong with an image of a woman in a bikini. It doesn't hurt women any more than an image of a shirtless man would hurt men. It's called sexual attraction, not sexual objectification and it's a natural process that leads to the propagation of the human species. As a heterosexual male, it makes me very angry when people like you vilify my sexual orientation by trying to push for censorship of sexy images with this "objectification" nonsense.
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For trans people it has an extra layer of meaning since once they are living as who they really are people start to actually see them as the person that they really are. and not someone they were forced to be. There’s an even more wonderful moment where they actually get to see themselves in the mirror for the first time. It’s something that I will always cherish.
It is transphobic and scientifically inaccurate. Read the articles I posted a moment ago, it shows how that’s a gross simplification of biology.
Anyone can have opinions, but a lot of them are clearly wrong. Like that one and yours, but you’re welcome to be wrong.
Can you please change Jack Ransom's picture with my avatar?
Is there currently a male character depicted with a shirtless main picture, and if not, why?
That's how we should be. The Daxes didn't get upset if it was a simple mistake cause people knew their former selves and haven't met the new one yet. These people didn't repeat that mistake, and didn't question the Daxs' own statements of what their names are. Sisko used "old man" as a joke, and Dax laughed with him instead of being offended. But I guess the important difference is that Trill cherish their former hosts and see them as part of themselves, while real-life trans/NB people never had previous identities that were correct at the time.
Since I'm the one who wrote that piece and since this response received a lot of likes, I would like to defend myself. When I use the term "SJW", I'm not using it as a slur against progressive people. To me, an SJW is someone who is obsessed with censorship and political correctness; who viciously attacks anyone who disagrees with them and tries to get them fired from their jobs; who believes any criticism they receive is harassment but has no problem criticizing others; who hates anything that a man might find sexy; who uses the term "white privilege" to diminish the accomplishments of white people; who uses the terms "manspreading" and "mansplaining" to attack men; who hates straight white men, yet claims to be against racism and sexism.
You get the picture. There are even some transgender people who use this term in the same context. I hope that clears things up.
"SJW" as a term has only ever been used by bigots to try and label those that oppose them as (putting it VERY mildly) busybodies. It's a dog-whistle, plain and simple. If you think it means something else, you're wrong and should not use it because it's going to make you look like a prejudiced nutter.
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I don't know how you came to this conclusion. I use the term the same way it's used by most content creators on YouTube: to describe toxic, hateful, hypocritical people.
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I think you mean "dog whistle" there. A "wolf whistle" is quite different.
You know I thought I got that wrong when I typed it, but couldn't think of the right term. Well whatever, I think the intent is clear but I edited it nonetheless.
This is what we call a "you problem".
*cough*bullshit*cough*
Social justice is a good thing. It's about achieving justice for individuals in or through society. Fighting for it (being a "warrior") has been the core of Star Trek's ethos since they first decided to focus on military officers in space.
It's a perversion of etymology that SJW transformed into a negative somehow in the last ten years. I have no doubt that many who use it don't realize this, and they are just mimicking others (that's kind of how language works), but just like attacking feminism or attacking anti-facism, being anti-social justice makes no sense at face value.
It's a perversion of etymology that SJW transformed into a negative somehow in the last ten years. I have no doubt that many who use it don't realize this, and they are just mimicking others (that's kind of how language works), but just like attacking feminism or attacking anti-facism, being anti-social justice makes no sense at face value.
The term SJW is used somewhat ironically. SJWs don't actually care about social justice, or at least they have a very twisted view of what social justice means and how it should be implemented. By viewing everyone in terms of their race, they are only contributing to racism, not fighting it. And by attacking straight white men, they are encouraging white supremacy by proving the white supremacists right when they say the white race is under attack. SJWs are also quick to turn against the women/minorities they are supposed to be protecting if those minorities disagree with them in any way.
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