susemani

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   by susemani 2y ago

   This is not the same, because a man who introduces himself as a woman is not actually a woman. He might want everyone to pretend that he is, but it is not the reality of the situation. It's more like if he introduced himself as being a
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   by susemani 2y ago

   Trans is also an ideology. It's the belief that each person has a "gender identity" which may or may not align with their sex, and that this "gender identity", rather than sex, is what makes someone a woman or a man
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   by susemani 2y ago

   If you believe that making false claims of an opposite-sex identity is a harmful lie, then being compelled under threat of punishment to, for example, refer to a male as "she", is also a direct and targeted attack.
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   by susemani 2y ago

   > If a trans colleague identifies a way that you disagree with, does this give you free pass to misgender them and deny their identity? Yes, of course. If you believe that false claims of an opposite-sex identity constitute a harmful lie