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Aella
@Aella_Girl
sometimes im like 'oh i should step in as a voice of measured reason into the trans culture war' but then i poke my head in and its just some angry screeching ppl in a dark muddy room committing war crimes at each other, and im like oh ok nvm but you guys have fun in there
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Fred Scharmen
@sevensixfive
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@Aella_Girl
"I think trans people absolutely have the right to request being treated in the way that makes them feel good; I also think you have the right to not agree to this if you do actually feel like it deeply violates some value or description of truth."
aella.substack.com
What A Woman Is
The existence of trans people is a lot of things, but happens to also be a spikey thought experiment that jabs at our concepts of identity. “What is a woman?” “Someone who can get pregnant.” “So no...
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Fred Scharmen
@sevensixfive
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@Aella_Girl
It is the same thing. And I note you're also minimizing a need for basic decency by calling it something that just makes people feel good. Your whole essay here is an attempt to justify discrimination against trans people who you or anyone else might judge as not "passing."
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@sevensixfive
not the same thing. This is a recurrent issue; people take diff things and collapse them down into a single thing. Complete lack of nuance! It's also a technique to insist the other person is arguing for a worse thing then they actually are, so u have a strawman to fight against
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Fred Scharmen
@sevensixfive
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@Aella_Girl
If you refuse to recognize someone's gender, you're refusing to recognize their existence. This is not complicated. You're a form and survey person, what's the usual first or second question in most surveys?
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