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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They want self-ID, they can’t disavow some self-declared trans if their whole philosophy says that self-declared identity is absolutely sacrosanct - they can’t start gatekeeping it now.

[–]OuroborosTheory 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, the gasket was blown when they said "you don't have to have a need to become the opposite gender (so binaristic!) or surgery (medicalism!) or dress differently (straight-passing) or do literally anything other than change their name": and they always have nice-SOUNDING motte-and-bailey arguments ("older women have lip hair! having short hair doesn't make you less female!") and it all just melted together

I think it was because of Jenner (a Republican who said you had to have dysphoria and hormones didn't magically melt away your skeleton except in terms of osteoporosis)