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You are taking an extremely literal position on the word "exist", which may be where your disconnect is coming from. Let's say you are LGBT in a place that den

You are taking an extremely literal position on the word "exist", which may be where your disconnect is coming from. Let's say you are LGBT in a place that denies you certain medical care, marriage (and associated tax/estate benefits), denial from many stores, etc. Alongside other discrimination. Yes, you still /literally/ exist. But you also have an argument to say that your existence is not valued as much as others, and many parts of existing (see above examples) are denied to you. It's a bit more pithy to say that your right to exist is being challenged, than having to dance around your extremely literal definition of existing.

roenxi 6y ago
> But you also have an argument to say that your existence is not valued as much as others, and many parts of existing (see above examples) are denied to you. I'm a man. I didn't make any special choice to be a man. I got labelled from birth, same as most of the other men. Someone may not like me enforcing the same standards on them as I do myself, or may think the standard unreasonable, but they aren't being valued any less if I apply a standard to them that I do to myself. And it isn't an argument or slogan I've heard any actual trans people making; they tend to have non-metaphorical complaints.
- ziddoap 6y ago
  >Someone may not like me enforcing the same standards on them as I do myself, The same standards are not being applied to different groups, that's the whole point as I understand it.