55-60% of your body is fluid, but your gender isn’t…
The science is settled. The two biological sexes (and there are only two) are broadly (though by no means perfectly) coterminous with gender. This holds for nearly every species in the animal kingdom, even us, and for all societies on Earth. Close to 100 per cent of the human race is born with a set of either male or female chromosomes. A small number of people are born with chromosomal and/or reproductive abnormalities, and these people are commonly identified as “intersex.”
Many sex differences are biological, and they matter. Sexual differentiation is driven by sexual reproduction, which is the basic mechanism of animal evolution. It’s the way that animals get together and pool their DNA. Anyone who claims that sex differentiation is a socially constructed myth, or doesn’t matter, must have flunked Biology 101. As current research shows, even our brains are different.
This doesn’t mean that we should force people to conform to gender stereotypes, or punish them if they don’t. If people want to identify as transgender, fine. If they want to self-identify as polygender, demigirl, or transmisogyny constrained – well, whatever. But it’s just that – self-identification. I could just as easily go around insisting that I’m biologically Asian, but I’m obviously not. Call yourself whatever you want, Pumpkin, but facts are facts.
Change your birth certificate if it makes you feel better. But it doesn’t change the facts. You can say your eyes are brown. But if your eyes are blue, that doesn’t make it so. It’s like putting a Mercedes hood ornament on a Toyota and insisting it’s a Mercedes.
Self-delusion is fine, but don’t expect the rest of us to go along with it.
Not accepting ones identity is a shame. Everyone is made the way they are suppose to. If you don’t like you then only you can change. Until we all have different color blood then we are all the same…..there is no changing that.
@jaythesmartone I think everyone is an individual in terms of personality, talents, sexuality, desires, motivations, etc. But gender is what it is.
@bedlamhillfarm I think to think of people as people and treat everyone the same no matter what….
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I hear you. Biology doesn’t lie, but I’m pretty unconcerned by what is or isn’t in most people’s pants.
@queenofegypt I don’t care either, for the most part. However, when THEY decide to make it a disruptive issue, then I care. Would you believe some transgenders are insisting on gynecologic exams, including a pap smear?
@bedlamhillfarm Yeah, I agree that’s overkill. Pap smears are necessary evils, but believe me if there were no biological reason to have one, I certainly wouldn’t insist on one.
@queenofegypt
If bites, then I am concerned about what is in peoples pants.
@mentaldysplasia If one’s genitalia include teeth, that’s a whole other issue. 😄
@queenofegypt
Maybe that thing I did with an alien was not the best choice, lol. Somethings condoms do even protect, lol.
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Well how controversial of you.
*clamps mouth*
Moving on.
@e3 Science denial is “controversial”. These are facts.
@bedlamhillfarm belittling or denegrating the reality of someone who doesn’t experience the world as you do is a immoral unless theyve requested your take on reality.
@e3 Being separated from reality is mental illness. And I wouldn’t care, except they are attempting to force their warped view everywhere. I’m 100% libertarian in view, but the right to swing their fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
@bedlamhillfarm and I’m not sorry, but pissing in the toilet of choice is not the same as pissing on your nose.
@bedlamhillfarm Mental illness begins where function ends. You have no business diagnosing stranger’s, much less assessing their level of function.
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Haha
@e3 Again, I have zero interest in how they choose to live as individuals. But I will not accept legislation or regulatory changes catering to the warped sensibilities of others. If one patient is going to insist he’s a woman, and make other patients uncomfortable by walking in to use the ladies room, that is unacceptable. You are Ralph and have a penis, regardless of what you want to call yourself. Use the men’s room.
@bedlamhillfarm – sure, until Ralph is abused by cis men for appearing the bathroom. That’s actually punishing the transwoman, and you’re choosing conscious ignorance of their safety and reality in order to hold on to a thoughtless perspective.
@e3 So, in your world view, should Ralph also use the women’s locker room and shower at the gym?
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Well, color does not actually exist cause it is created by your mind. My eyes are purple according to my color blind wife.
@mentaldysplasia Yes, and that’s called impaired perception.
@bedlamhillfarm
No, that is an actual fact that color does not exist. Our minds create color.
@mentaldysplasia The brain interprets all sensory experience, but does not bring them into existence.
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I love people for who they are. I do not judge them. What right do I have to tell someone how they feel or to identify. If a person feel happy and wants to say they are part cat… that is okay by me…
@kaliko Same here. But if they come to your house, and insist you provide a litter box for their use, how do you react? And when the government legislates that your business must provide (at your expense) a litterbox bathroom for their use, what then?
@bedlamhillfarm I will let them use my cats lik
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