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[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

It is not up to trans people to root out if their date is a transphobe, anymore than a jewish person has an obligation to find out if their date is antisemitic.

[–]Juniperius 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One of several reasons that makes this a bad comparison is that nobody expects to be able to tell by looking whether someone is Jewish. Religious beliefs are an intangible, internal quality, and Jews, like Muslims, Christians, atheists, etc come in all colors and appearances and both sexes. There may or may not be clues, and everyone takes for granted that you don't know people's religion unless they tell you. This is not at all like which sex someone is, which is obvious at a glance 99.9% of the time, and generally takes a lot of effort and money to hide - which means if someone is not the sex they appear, this is an active deception. Active deception is not equivalent to something you would never expect to know without asking.

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

QT viewpoint:

There may or may not be clues, and everyone takes for granted that you don't know people's sex trait status unless they tell you.

[–]Juniperius 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know that's the qt viewpoint, and my comment describes several reasons why it is false.

It's like if you believed the moon was made of green cheese, and I said to you, "no because green cheese has such and such characteristics, and the moon has this entirely other set of characteristics," and you responded, "yes, the green cheese characteristics are what we believe the moon is like."