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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

« At what point does something stop being that thing and become something else?«

At what point are things allowed to just be what they are?! Why does everything have to be complicated? Do we really need to re-examine everything from sight to weight and try to change our understanding of these things just so that you can call a man a woman or a woman a man and pretend it’s true? It’s ridiculous.

Lines are drawn after observation, not arbitrarily. If humans are separated from plants and animals and insects, it’s not just because someone randomly decided to separate us- there were observable, relevant differences in form, function, life span, reproduction etc that prompted the separation. All males and females, not just humans, were separated from each other for the same reasons.

Most people don’t distort reality to fit the pattern of language. Language was built on the reality, words were made to describe and discuss reality. Trans people are the ones distorting reality to fit language, or maybe they try to distort language and reality simultaneously, idk. Language didn’t create the categories. The categories existed and language was created based on the categories.

The idea that because there can be degrees of sick or sight or fat or thin that also applies to sex is just laughable. Everyone in the world, be they fat, thin, tall, short, 20/20 vision or blind as the proverbial bat- we all have a sex. And it’s one of two. It’s proven. It’s observable. It just is what it is and some people really need to accept that because all the philosophical arguments in the world will never change that. Transwomen are men, who can still get sick with male specific illness yet will never be at risk for female specific ones, transmen are women, who can still get sick with female specific illnesses yet will never be at risk for male specific ones. And either of them can go blind or get fat or thin. They can experience any of the examples you offered, but they will still be the sex they were born because none of the things you tried to use as evidence that sex is not « black and white » are comparable to sex.