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I don't really understand why that comment was killed. It seemed reasonably worded to me, and the poster didn't write "you can't be neither sex" he wrote "With
by jeffreyrogers 10y ago
I don't really understand why that comment was killed. It seemed reasonably worded to me, and the poster didn't write "you can't be neither sex" he wrote "With rare exception, a person comes into the world as a male or female," which is quite different.
I think it's a shame that on HN people can't voice opinions like the one in that comment. To me the comment didn't seem bigoted, but seemed worthy of discussion.
Edit: the comment is no longer dead, at least at the time of writing this.
- mikeryan 10y agoI don't think the comment should be deleted, but its a naive point and one I think HN should be above. This whole debate isn't a question of biological sex, but gender identity. The comment isn't worthy of discussion because we all know, outside of some very rare cases, that people are born with one biological sex.
- DasIch 10y agoThere are people who are not clearly male or female both from a biological or sociological perspective. That's not an opinion, it's fact. Emphasizing that being nonbinary is rare only serves to legitimize labelling it as other as something that's not normal and to draw boundaries - where they don't belong - that inevitably bring discrimination with them. The comment may be "reasonably" worded but it's just a thinly veiled call to legitimize discrimination. A difference between that comment and "you can't be neither sex" exists only rhetorically but not in what's conveyed.
- TruthAndDare 10y ago> Emphasizing that being nonbinary is rare only serves to legitimize labelling it as other as something that's not normal Is it normal?