The Left Is Cancelling Dr Seuss

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(03-04-2021, 09:17 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Male and female aren't labels, they're terms used to represent sex.

When you say a dog or cat is male or female, are you attempting to label who they really are on the inside?

If people want to use gender to differ from sex (were basically synonymous until very recently) then that's a conversation to be had.  I see nothing wrong with people choosing to dress, act, or identify anyway they would like.  Nor do I think anyone should go out of their way to not respect their ability to do so.

But there is nothing wrong with others (in conversation, not in the face of a trans person) using sex (not gender) for their own opinion of what actually constitutes being a male or female, or a man or a woman.

Exactly.  

I have a trans boy in my Facebook friends that I met while volunteering at the hospital while he still identified as a girl and I'm not going to go out of my way to point out that he was born a girl and still has all the male parts, but his sex is still female.

(03-04-2021, 08:50 PM)Lucidus Wrote: When you were born, you were given a label based on your genitalia [male or female]. That label in no way describes who you actually are, how you will identify or who you will be attracted to; it simply categorizes you based on a specific physical aspect.

One could easily be male as described by the physical state of their birth, but be female as dictated by the actual and invariable nature of their essence.

Until recently, throughout history, bathrooms and locker rooms were used to separate men and women based on sex.  Most women are uncomfortable undressing or being naked around men and a lot of men are uncomfortable undressing or being naked around women.  

That had nothing to do with labels.  A person's sex is not in the mind.  A person who has had gender reassignment surgery is 17 more likely to commit suicide based on the study cited in this exchange around a 1:40 and the normal suicide rate is 4% and the transgender suicide rate is 40% (at 4:19 here) and, according to transgender people, it virtually no difference if people recognize them as transgender (3:50 in the last link).

That points to a deeper problem inside transgender people and not one based on how other people view them or treat them.