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[–]emptiedriver 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"Trans men" and "trans women" are just playing as fictional characters, for years instead of a few minutes or hours.

Do they know this? Have you checked your theory with pro trans rights people, that they are just "acting" as the opposite sex, because I have to think some of them would be offended at the claim...

Do you understand what lying is? Can you decide to just "act" as if you are a different age, have a degree, are drunk, were born in Russia, can play piano, have cancer, are a senator, and so on, or do these things have to be verifiably true? An actor can play a role but those things don't just become facts. They are playing pretend, and we understand that.

That is what "drag" was supposed to be - men dressing up as women (or vice versa) for fun. Some people have problems with that, but the idea, that it is for performance, is like acting. But doing that in your real life is lying. You can "act" a little bit, in that you can change your personality from how you think it normally is, but you cannot misrepresent the facts of your life the way you can in a movie. If you change the facts of your life, that is lying.

[–]Not_a_celebrity[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Acting is lying

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s performing a role in a work of fiction. Lying would be Daniel Radcliffe saying he really is a wizard and the Harry Potter movies didnt cgi his spells.

Acting is understood by the average person to be portraying fiction, and not trying to convince people they really truly are the character.

How are you not seeing that? What’s got you convinced actors are liars?

[–]emptiedriver 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Acting is lying

So if acting is lying, and trans people are just acting, then trans people are lying?