The problem is not that one can't conceive of a reason, but that one can conceive of more than one reason, and the one that better fits the circumstances is being denied out of ideological antipathy.
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Replying to @vszebr @MjrKusanagi
Why is that the important thing? Why not just respect their wishes either way?
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Replying to @vszebr @arthur_affect
Surely respecting these people would involve addressing and referring to them in the terms they consistently chose to apply to themselves. But then the ideological antipathy creeps in, and you can't let that happen anymore. Hmm.
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Replying to @vszebr @arthur_affect
Pretty sure when you scrub their name off their work because you've presumed to know better than they did what name they wanted on the cover, you surrender the moral position of respecting them. I wouldn't respect you if I were asserting my presumptions about you, would I?
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Ah, but the ideological antipathy beckons. You berate Chu on the misguided basis that he is declaring people to be trans, which he wasn't, but then in the next breath declare them women. Consistency would be well considered here, I think.
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How would you actually know whether a dead person from the 19th century was or was not trans
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