Fairly understanding when they constantly have to fight against people arguing they have no right to exist.
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I have literally never heard anybody in my life say that anyone from the queer spectrum have no right to exist, and I used to be a fundamentalist Christian.
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Really you've never heard anyone insist trans people are mentally ill? Bi people are just confused? Ace people just haven't found the right person yet? Homosexuality is a life style choice/totally a thing that can be cured? Lot's of ways of saying lgtb people shouldn't exist
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Saying a trans person is mentally ill is not saying a trans person shouldn't exist? If I think "liking potatoes" means they have a mental illness then where am I getting "people who like potatoes have no right to exist"?
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Saying homosexuality is curable or that ace people need to find the right person is not the same as saying homosexuals and ace people "shouldn't" or "have no right to" exist.
"No right to exist" is something you say to a genetic experiment gone wrong when you think it should die
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Homosexuality is cureable therefore take the cure and stop and existing as a homosexual.
If you just ate enough potatoes you'd eventually realise you were a potato lover all along.
There's more than one way of removing those you consider undesirable
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making someone gay not-gay is not the same thing of "removing them," it's "changing them." If I hate potatoeaters and I try to make them stop eatin potatos am I "removing the undesirable?"
Idk why pressures to change behavior suddenly get this new class if they're about lgbtq
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Because it's not simply behaviour it's a quality inherent to an individual. Being gay is not a lifestyle choice. Being trans is not a mental illness these are simply conditions of being. ...
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To suggest people in that position simply need to not be that way is the same as suggesting they need to not be.
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If so, then this applies to all cases where you want someone to change their behavior counter to their drives. Saying schizophrenics should be medicated, pedophiles cured, DID sufferers should go to therapy... all of this is suggesting they 'need not be'
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I don't think pedophiles, DID sufferers, schizophrenics, trans people, ace people, etc., are in the same category. That's why I hate the phrase "no right to exist" or "need not be"
I'm glad we agree on that last point at least. As for compulsory treatment of mental illness It is a matter of personal autonomy just like any other form of medicine. Unless you can prove someone's not competent to make their own choices then informed consent is required