LesbianIt's almost like there are two different kinds of nonbinary people

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[–]chandra 17 insightful - 6 fun17 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

none of the senses humans possess can perceive gender others were assigned at birth. It’s therefore impossible to be attracted or not attracted to them based on it.

It's a wonder humans ever managed to reproduce at all considering it's apparently a total crapshoot whether a person you're interacting with is male or female.

Just because a small handful of trans people successfully pass, that doesn't mean that we suddenly can't tell males from females, it just means that our ability to do so can be deceived (and only at great effort and expense, and only by those lucky enough to have a body amenable to passing to begin with). Like, you can create a convincing 3D illusion on the ground, but that doesn't mean I don't generally have the ability to perceive depth.

Obviously TRAs need this bullshit to be true, but I can never tell whether they've actually made themselves truly believe it or whether it's just gaslighting.

[–]Rosefield 11 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

100.000 years ago Grugg didn't know if either Gruggine or Gronkk was the female. People back then and even our ape-ish ancestors had no way of telling the sexes apart. In fact biological sex is an invention of the terf goddess JK Rowling

[–]julesburm1891 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Just because a small handful of trans people pass, that doesn’t mean that we suddenly can’t tell males from females.

This is the TRA argument I don’t get. Let’s be very generous and say trans people account for 1% of the population and 20% of them pass. So, they’re saying that because 0.2% of the population can pass as the opposite sex while clothed, the whole of humanity can’t tell the difference between sexes? (Personally, I think a more realistic figure would be 0.6% of the population with 5% passing for a grand total of 0.03% of the population passing, but whatever.)

Also, if we can’t differentiate the sexes, what are trans people playing at taking cross-sex hormones and having multiple cosmetic surgeries? Surely they can’t be mimicking the features of the opposite sex because how could you possibly tell the difference?