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[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am probably a moderate on this sub, I do think that people who want to live their lives in unusual and unorthodox ways (including trans people) should be permitted to, to the greatest extent without disadvantaging others.

Is this possible with trans people, though? Not a rhetorical question: genuinely asking. Because it seems to me that they require, at the very least, everyone acting as though their sex is imperceptible, and maintaining gender-roles (so that men in dresses are understood to be "women", rather than just... men in dresses). It isn't enough for them to "know" that they're something other than their sex; this identity must receive confirmation from the world at large. Which forces others to go along-- deny the evidence of their own senses; support gender-roles-- against their will... thereby disadvantaging them.

Can transgenderism even exist without doing this? I don't really see how, do you?