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[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You put it even better than I did. Glad you thought so too. I think it's important to be clear about why it's harmful-- and in some ways laughable-- to see someone who is like LGB pretending to be a man on the cover of Time. It is not laughable because her appearance deserves ridicule, it is laughable because someone pretending to be the opposite sex that they are is ridiculous, since it isn't possible to change what sex you are. And even then, I have trouble laughing for for the reasons you observed regarding mental health.

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

Thank you! Yeah of course I have to bite my tongue sometimes when it comes to people falling for such an outrageous claim - ridiculous as you say - but I try to remember that in a couple of years, when it's all unravelling, because it will, I don't want people to feel like they'll never be welcomed back because of the things they believed or the things they did to themselves.