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(02-21-2016, 02:45 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: I'm not dehumanizing anyone . I am responding to various posts on a bengals message board that you have decided to pluck out of context.     I used terms that were not on the various offensive lists choosing to use a word that isn't related to take away the emotion from the language so we can discuss the issue without worrying about needing a dictionary.

This is an actual question with no other meaning behind it:

If you want to, as you say, "discuss the issue without worrying about needing a dictionary" then why not simply use the word "transgender"?

It is accept, it is allowed on the board, it is understood by all the posters.

Why use "terms that were not on the various offensive lists choosing to use a word that isn't related to take away the emotion from the language" when there is already a word that does that that everyone else uses?

And I'm serious.  Not baiting at all.  Just curious if you can give an honest answer.