He seems to think he’s an expert on everything and the final authority on all subjects. That’s why he thinks he knows more about my life than me and then accuses me of being hostile to him. I don’t get it either.
Being a self-proclaimed expert must be hard, especially when your knowledge is extremely lacking and full of misinformation.
When someone chooses to arrogantly lecture (at great length) someone who actually has lived that perspective, and tell them that they are wrong about their own idenity and others like them, even though the person being disputed is very well-read AND personally experienced in the matter, then one had better damn well be some kind of authority or expert on the subject themselves, and not just someone who is speculating about a subject they're "not sure" about. Especially when the subject is something as personal and impactful as one's own identity.
You can believe whatever wrongheaded thing you want, but if you're going to come here and repeatedly tell people they're wrong about the experience they've lived, it might lead you down a path to where you get in trouble.So I have a right to my own perspective, just as long as it's exactly the same as everyone else's?
You know damn well that's not the case. You deliberately misgendered Awesome Possum after she informed you multiple times that she is a woman, which is a common tactic of those who want to insult or deny the existence of transgender people (just like putting transgender in scare quotes to pretend like it's not a real thing), so don't play innocent and act like it was a prohibition on using the word "dude".I thought we weren't allowed to use "dude" anymore?
Hate to break it to you but not all animals on Earth have two distinct sexes. That is, again, an hypothesis that was made by a bunch of guys with incomplete information, who then spent a lot of energy making sure that information STAYED incomplete just so they could be "correct". Like, one example that every gradeschooler knows is that of seahorses: nominally "male" and "female" but the facts of their sexual anatomy stretch such definitions to absurdity. Or maybe you just meant mammals? Check out what hyenas have going on then tell me they're "distinctly" male and female.
Maybe I'm confused, but I don't remember Awesome Possum bringing up intersex conditions. Did I miss a page when I was lurking?
Sorry that you (or she) feel that way, but I tend to use "dude" as a general term of affection. No offense intended.
Because I like to imagine and I like to speculate. I like to think about what life will be like for a transgender person in the Federation. How will things be better, how will things be worse? I like to think about what the transition might actually look like at that level of technology, how much easier, safer, and less painful it might be. I like to think about how culture will change and adapt under those conditions, and maybe how it might look back on the mistakes of the past (meaning us).
Stop. It won't be worse in any way, only better. And what constitutes better, well, perhaps you should listen actual trans people regarding that?
This is probably the universe's way of telling me I've been away from evolutionary biology far too long, especially since:
... is also a really good point.
It has, if people would just accept science, trust that trans people know more about being trans than cis people and that representation was a good thing and we needed more, it could. But a bunch of guys (probably straight, white cis males) think they know better than anyone else and keep butting in with uninformed opinions and keep trying to dismiss the concerns of and erase everyone they just don’t like.
Maybe we can speculate about how in the future they will be able to medically screen out and eliminate incredibly frustrating stubbornness and obtuseness.
Well, the ignore function is already a thing today. We live the future!
On the whole, definitely. But progress comes at a price. Even desegregation in the 1960s came with more than a few unintended side effects for the black community. And the growing popularity of cochlear implants has lead to a decline in fluency in American Sign Language and what some consider an over-reliance on the implant, which is problematic for a lot of reasons.
Despite my best efforts, my hearing is probably irreparably compromised by my white cis-male heterosexuality so all of those conversations I've had must have been wasted on me.
I would hope so, things do appear to be slowly getting better now. Mainly due to greater visibility of trans people, something that would be helped by more representation.
Most likely. The issue that some can’t seem to get or they are intentionally trying to gloss over is to who they should hire for the part. I and probably the vast majority of trans people prefer to only have trans actors play trans characters. For some reason, I’m assuming either bigotry or bigotry mixed with a complete unawareness of how trans people look, some people keep insisting that they only hire cis people. I guess trans people are just too ugly for them, they want trans people erased so they don’t have to see them or they think that trans women look like men, trans men look like women and they probably think non-binary look like aliens. The truth is that trans women look like women, we’re generally taller on average. Trans men are generally shorter on average. Neither are out of range with their cis counterparts, so we tend to blend in so well that most cis people wouldn’t even assume we were trans unless we told you. Most people probably pass by trans people daily without even thinking about it.
Okay you are well past the point of debating in bad faith with this given the insults, character attacks, and rampant strawmanning.
Yes you said this several times already.
Good grief. This topic is closed.
