Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
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Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
1hr ago
I assume they will not give it to you if you are a visibly disturbed drug user.
...resulting in the rest of us having to step around bio-hazardous land-mines on the pavement.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
8hr ago
They want it so bad they'll chop off their dicks
That is not the first time that bottom chirurgery has been characterised in such a way on this forum, and I would like to correct the record:
To the best of my knowledge, vaginoplasty (male-to-female) does not involve 'chopping off' anything. The male genitals in their entirety are rearranged into female genitals, with the penis becoming the clitoris and the scrotum becoming the labia; phalloplasty (female-to-male) is the same but in the other direction.
Also, the methods used are very similar to those used in within-sex reconstructive chirurgery in cisgender patients who have suffered genital injuries.
and pump their bodies full of chemicals
My brother in Christ, what do you think the endocrine system does?
to make a poor imitation of this.
It may have been a 'poor imitation' a century ago, but much progress has been made; the regret rate for transgender operations is less than that for knee replacements.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
10hr ago
I don’t believe that MTFs (i.e. men [by chromosomes and natal biology, women by identity]) should be given access to women’s spaces
I'm not sure that there ought to be separate men's and women's spaces, if their existence leads to things like a trans woman dying of cancer because she isn't allowed in the women's ward, and also isn't allowed in the men's ward.
For two reasons:
First, because our reasons are important. If A supports P for reason X, and B opposes P for reason Y, it is entirely reasonable for A to accuse B of exploiting trivialities while refusing to concede on the matter, if X is more important than Y.
In the specific case of transgender and immigration, X = alleviating the actual suffering of actual human beings, who have suffered more than enough already. This leads into the second reason:
Because We Do Not Do That. It is a central tenet among many on the left, that throwing a few people, especially marginalised people, under the bus, for some nebulous notion of The Greater Good, is a thing that is simply Not Done.
It is the philosophy of Ana Thurmond from UNSONG:
It is the philosophy of House Pelekai from Lilo & Stitch (or if you were watching Netflix some years ago, Igor from Young Frankenstein):
It is the philosophy from the Talmud:
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