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[–]Omina_SentenziosaSarcastic Ovalord 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Right. But unfortunately, we live in a gendered society, not a postgenderist one. Gender abolition is going to take centuries. In the meantime, we should be modifying the social construction of gender to be least oppressive, and least harmful.

That' s your prerogative, I refuse to do it. I will keep acting like gender and self-id are idiotic and dangerous and I will keep not respecting them and criticizing at any given chance.

Given your inability to provide concrete examples thus far, you aren’t able to make this argument. Transgender people would benefit from an identity-based gendered society, GNC people would benefit, natal women and natal men would benefit, literally everyone would benefit from a transition away from expression-based gender to identity-based gender.

You can' t prove anything either. And again, I wouldn' t benefit from it, so it' s not "literally anyone".

Why are you so triggered right now? Good grief. Nobody is forcing you to do anything.

Awesome!

Like I said several times, I’m against self identification legislation, which includes things like compelled speech/misgendering. You can do whatever you want, you can choose to misgender trans people if you’d like, however, you’d be epistemologically incorrect in a world which accepts gender is rooted in self identification.

Thankfully that world will never exist. So I won' t have to worry about being "epistemologically" incorrect.

Got it. Unironic feels-over-reals. “Woman” would not exist in a postgenderist society. “Man” would not exist in a postgenderist society. They are entirely products of a gendered society.

Nope.

No. A male who identifies as a woman, is a woman, but not female.

Great: my definition of woman cannot exist without female biology. So a male cannot be a woman.

Is your argument really “minorities don’t matter”? Really? Given your inability to show how it negatively impacts the other 99.4% of the population, I absolutely support something which brings social utility to 0.6% of the population.

Well, I don' t. Not this. We aren' t talking about something that can indeed bring benefits, no matter how much you cry about it, or something that is literally not a big deal. This is both a huge deal and something that will bring problems.

I am strongly against compelled speech, so we can end this aspect of the discussion. My position does not include demanding people by force to gender trans people correctly. That being said, I don’t care, sorry. The “harm” of your limited unhappiness does not override the harm induced by not accepting transgender individuals in the social sense, as well as the transition to identity-based gender.

So, just to make it clear, you don' t care about the harm you are going to bring, but I should care about the harm I am going to bring. Got it.

Oh no, it absolutely does.

Wow, you see the future? That' s an awesome super-power!!!!

You have 0 concrete examples, 0 data backing your claims. Meanwhile, if you’d like to, I can provide you a plethora of research which directly shows that trans people are positively impacted by being socially accepted. Meanwhile, you’d need to present evidence that there is evident harm against everyone else that somehow outweighs the harm not accepting trans people would cause.

The only data you have is reports of trans people' s words. That is not objective or concrete in the fucking least. Just because it was written on a study, it doesn' t mean it' s true when it' s literally based on feelings. Even if it were true, just because it' s better for trans people it doesn' t mean it' s better in general. You can' t know it because it' s never happened, so you can' t have anything to compare your utopic ideas with what would indeed happen.

That said, let' s make it easy: I am not going to use your system or support your ideas. Ever. I don' t care if it hurts trans people, I prefer being able to call a man a man. So go on trying to make that world happen: I am glad that, if it ever happens, I will be long dead and I won' t have to live in it.

Good night.

[–]transwomanHesitantly QT? 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The only data you have is reports of trans people' s words. That is not objective or concrete in the fucking least.

I have more than just reports of trans people's words. I have mortality rates, literal statistical facts seen continuously across the vast majority of academic literature.

Now, where is your data showing harm against everyone else? You cry about being "harmed" but can't exemplify a single example. Your data doesn't exist, your entire argument is based in feelings. You are the epitome of the feels-over-reals caricature.

I don' t care if it hurts trans people

Awesome. According to you "minorities don't matter" just as I mentioned earlier. Mask off. Or not really, you've been this way the whole conversation.

You can' t know it because it' s never happened

Wait this works in my favor. You're admitting to having no data on the claim you're making. Therefore, the social utility brought about to 0.6% of the population is justified, unless you can prove that there is more harm done to everyone else.

[–]Omina_SentenziosaSarcastic Ovalord 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have more than just reports of trans people's words. I have mortality rates, literal statistical facts seen continuously across the vast majority of academic literature.

All of those are still based on feelings. You can' t be sure that those mortality rates were caused by these people being trans.

Now, where is your data showing harm against everyone else? You cry about being "harmed" but can't exemplify a single example.

As I already said, if the basis of it is feelings, I can tell you that I feel harmed. You keep asking for data that describes feelings and refuse to accept the data I am directly providing about myself. Proof that it' s only certain people' s feelings you care about. It' s the same for me, by the way, but the fact that you act like you' re the one on the high horse and you' re saving the World by doing it is grating to be generous.

Awesome. According to you "minorities don't matter" just as I mentioned earlier. Mask off. Or not really, you've been this way the whole conversation.

I actually care about minorities when the issues they have are not "Uééééééééééééé, I become suicidal if you don' t pretend reality doesn' t exist for my sake!". In that case, yeah, I don' t care.

Wait this works in my favor. You're admitting to having no data on the claim you're making. Therefore, the social utility brought about to 0.6% of the population is justified, unless you can prove that there is more harm done to everyone else.

I have no idea how you managed to make that leap. So I will make it even easier here: neither of us knows whether the change we are advocating for will bring benefits or not because, since neither social scenario has ever happened, we cannot make premonitions about how it is going to turn out. Both of us have opinions on what would happen: one of us might be right, both of us could be wrong, we simply do not know.

All we know is that you will keep whining about how that 0, 6% needs to be prioritized, and I will keep saying that I don' t give a damn about their feelings. And we will keep acting accordingly.