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*Even if* somebody went around saying, "I demand you call me 'she' and furthermore I claim to have two X chromosomes!", which none of my trans colleagues have ever said to me by the way, it still isn't a question-of-empirical-fact whether she should be called "she". It's an act.
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In saying this, I am not taking a stand for or against any Twitter policies. I am making a stand on a hill of meaning in defense of validity, about the distinction between what is and isn't a stand on a hill of facts in defense of truth.
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I will never stand against those who stand against lies. But changing your name, asking people to address you by a different pronoun, and getting sex reassignment surgery, Is. Not. Lying. You are *ontologically* confused if you think those acts are false assertions.
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Pronouns directly imply something about the subject's sex. If you don't count willingly misusing these terms as a lie, then I don't see how you can rescue the "lie" function.
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Using language in a way *you* dislike, openly and explicitly and with public focus on the language and its meaning, is not lying. The proposition you claim false (chromosomes?) is not what the speech is meant to convey - and this is known to everyone involved, it is not a secret.
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Logic: Everything you're talking about is a policy question and nobody on either side of that policy question should be framing it as a noble stand of Truth against Lies.
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Granted particular facts might be irrelevant, but if there is any hard cooperative/multi-party/scarcity-contention problem here, it seems an argument must ultimately appeal to something objective somehow, else be quite unpersuasive (at least rationally).
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