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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trans people can easily argue that they want to be treated like any other normal person. Normal in this case beeing cis. Because why should they be treated differently, for a natural 1 rolled at their birth.

I don’t think this is true. Trans people want to be treated specifically as the sex/gender they are not. I can treat a trans person just like everyone else- but I recognize and acknowledge (when necessary) the sex of everyone else. So do trans people want to be treated like everyone else or do they want to be given special treatment in the form of everyone using preferred pronouns and accepting their (unsubstantiated) claims of being the sex/gender opposite their birth? If trans people want to be treated as “cis” people, that means we all acknowledge the sex and gender they were born with. That’s literally the opposite of what they demand.

You ask why they should be treated differently- that’s exactly what they want- different (special) treatment. They don’t want to be treated as “cis” because doing so means they get treated as what they were born, not how they claim to identify.