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The obvious answer is that what you identify as does not give you the right to do things that others reasonably consider offensive. So if a transwoman goes on
by btilly 4y ago
The obvious answer is that what you identify as does not give you the right to do things that others reasonably consider offensive.
So if a transwoman goes on a rant about how women are all crazy bitches, she doesn't get to justify it by saying she's a woman. She can reasonably ask others to treat her as a woman. But it isn't a get out of jail free card.
Now for a harder one. Why philosophically is being trans OK, but it is not OK for a white to identify as a minority and then receive preferential treatment as one? What if the white is detectably a minority, but so little that nobody would notice if they didn't make an issue of it?
- chipotle_coyote 4y agoYou're going to need to provide a concrete example of the "preferential treatment" in your hypothetical. The concrete example of the treatment trans employees are asking to receive is, in almost all cases, being referred to with the correct pronouns. Pronouns come up in casual conversation routinely -- that's precisely why folks make an issue of it. What's the comparable situation you envision for a coworker who doesn't "look Black" or "look Hispanic"?
- btilly 4y agoConcrete example, a certain number of government contracts are reserved for minority owned businesses.