Do you believe that there should be a distinction between trans men and women, and biological men and women?
In any capacity. Be it in sports, in society, on dating sites, etc etc. One of those? All of those? None? A different one?
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Yes, for instance on dating sites
Everyone is entitled to their preferences in dating/romantic relationships, so people should have to disclose their status. If there are more than two genders, then simple male/female check boxes in such venues are obsolete.
As far as sports, I really don't care, because I don't care about sports in general, regardless of gender.
And I won't lie, I'm still a minor bit skeptical about the entire subject, simply because I've never heard of any other species indulging in "transitioning" and sometimes it does strike me as a way to get attention (perhaps for some but not all trans people). For instance, I recently watched the third season of Blown Away on Netflix, one of the competitors identified as non-binary, and for some reason this is all this person could talk about ... not, you, glass blowing. Like, "hi, my name is ___, and I'm non-binary, and that's like really the main thing I want you to know about me, even though we're really here to talk about glass". Like the identity is the number one thing this person wants to get out to everyone as the very first impression because everything is wrapped up in acknowledging this identity for this person. To a degree, sometimes to me it seems like a vanity exercise, similar to Rachel Dolezal "identifying" as a different ethnicity.
If someone is homosexual or bisexual, that does not bother me at all, and that is easier for me to grasp than redefining a basic biological birth state like gender. Sometimes it seems like people have a whimsical entitlement to just try to redefine everything merely for the sake of it, "just because I can," maybe as a means of achieving some sort of notoriety to fill some other void, and that it's probably not out of the realm of possibility that eventually some will start redefining apples as bananas, just to get us all to "expand our thinking" for no other reason than the sake of it, nothing deeper.
I would definitely prioritize the environment, climate change, universal healthcare, and ending opioid hysteria than penalizes legitimate chronic pain patients for whom nothing else works (yes, every alternative you want to offer, they HAVE tried) ... way ahead of gender identity in political decision-making.
If that makes me transphobic, so be it, I can live with that.
Everyone is entitled to their preferences in dating/romantic relationships, so people should have to disclose their status. If there are more than two genders, then simple male/female check boxes in such venues are obsolete.
As far as sports, I really don't care, because I don't care about sports in general, regardless of gender.
And I won't lie, I'm still a minor bit skeptical about the entire subject, simply because I've never heard of any other species indulging in "transitioning" and sometimes it does strike me as a way to get attention (perhaps for some but not all trans people). For instance, I recently watched the third season of Blown Away on Netflix, one of the competitors identified as non-binary, and for some reason this is all this person could talk about ... not, you, glass blowing. Like, "hi, my name is ___, and I'm non-binary, and that's like really the main thing I want you to know about me, even though we're really here to talk about glass". Like the identity is the number one thing this person wants to get out to everyone as the very first impression because everything is wrapped up in acknowledging this identity for this person. To a degree, sometimes to me it seems like a vanity exercise, similar to Rachel Dolezal "identifying" as a different ethnicity.
If someone is homosexual or bisexual, that does not bother me at all, and that is easier for me to grasp than redefining a basic biological birth state like gender. Sometimes it seems like people have a whimsical entitlement to just try to redefine everything merely for the sake of it, "just because I can," maybe as a means of achieving some sort of notoriety to fill some other void, and that it's probably not out of the realm of possibility that eventually some will start redefining apples as bananas, just to get us all to "expand our thinking" for no other reason than the sake of it, nothing deeper.
I would definitely prioritize the environment, climate change, universal healthcare, and ending opioid hysteria than penalizes legitimate chronic pain patients for whom nothing else works (yes, every alternative you want to offer, they HAVE tried) ... way ahead of gender identity in political decision-making.
If that makes me transphobic, so be it, I can live with that.
