If someone accuses a trans woman of mutilating her body, you can rest assured that the phrase was sourced online through bigoted channels.
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It's so common, and so maximized for hate. It's not a phrase you would come upon with casual criticism of body autonomy.
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Bigotry truly is unoriginal. It's a marketing scheme. It's the optimized endcap at a supermarket.
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"black on black crime" "mutilate your body" "tribal warfare" Phrases that bigots uncritically parrot.
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It is not worth engaging in dialog when people bring up these "arguments." They didn't come upon them with rational thought.
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Thus they cannot be discharged with reasoned discourse.
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i could see *some* possibility of people coming to it on their own because "genital mutilation" is such a common phrase
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Doesn't make sense when applied to other concepts, e.g. hrt.
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that's true, though cis people tend to focus really fucking heavily on ~~~~the surgery~~~~
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they are so obsessed with our genitals. makes you wonder if the APA needs to categorize that obsession for DSM 6.
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are they allowed to put stuff in the dsm that all of them have
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Probably not; I have a faint idea that's the reason religion doesn't feature in it.
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