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

Tons!

I'm somewhat bisexual and when I was in my teens and 20s I was REALLY sexual and REALLY liberal. I'm still liberal in fact, but the left is less liberal than the right at this point imo. Democrats haven't been liberal for at least a decade despite the fact we often call the left "liberal".

I think I personally know at least 150 actual trans people, and that's not including people who I would call trans trenders and gender flux and other forms of gender non-conforming.

I take absolutely no issue with people who simply want to live their lives as the gender that corresponds to the opposite sex.

I take issue with the fact we have to pretend that they are not actually the sex they were born. We all know they are. Their body still is. I don't like being gaslit or coerced into pretending they are not. As I see it the bathroom debate is actually part of this. Bathrooms have nothing to do with what you identify as or how you feel inside, they are based on your physical sex. Urinals are for if you have a penis only, so the bathroom with a urinal works for you if you have a penis. Women's bathrooms have little trash cans in them because women menstruate and have to dispose of the sanitary napkins. Putting these in both bathrooms takes up resources for cleaning staff who now have to work twice as hard. Apart from this I don't really care what bathroom you use, it (should be) a free country.

I take issue with the concept of compelled speech. This is an inherently NON-LIBERAL value. If I wanna call someone a she, whether they are actually male, or female. I don't care if they are a trans-man, trans-woman, cis-man, or cis-woman or anything else. I can call them whatever I want. That is free speech, and free thought. Same goes for any other word, hateful or not. Now do I deserve certain repercussions if I am clearly doing so just to be a jerk, yeah, but not from the government, and not for any speech platform.

Also I think the other problem I have is that the trans gender argument flies in the face of the feminist argument, and no one except TERFs seem to realize it. Either gender means something or it doesn't. If it doesn't than "trans" doesn't mean anything either, if it does, then we need a cohesive definition.