What strikes me as offensive is the idea that the only defense of queerness is "it's not my fault, I didn't choose to be like this". Lots of people choose to explore their sexuality and find that their preferences change as a result. That's normal and healthy and good.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1316223453570228225 …
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Replying to @geekethics
Hard cosign. I'm extremely strongly of the opinion that there is a significant amount of (though certainly not total!) freedom of choice in both gender and sexuality, having exercised such choice myself, and I really resent discourse about it being all innate and immutable.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
It's especially bad in a trans context. I wasn't "born this way", that's literally the issue here!
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Replying to @geekethics
Yeah. I think there's a lot of how trans stuff gets talked about that wants to legitimise it by painting it as intrinsic and biological, but I think "Sometimes transition is going to be a good choice for people and I don't really care why they want to do it?" is the best stance.
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(I'm cis, but I had to check pretty carefully before I decided that was the right choice, and it's easy for me to imagine alternate histories where I transitioned instead and that was the right choice too. I'm entirely comfortable with this, but I think many aren't)
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