So much of what appears to be the right-wing/TERF worldview seems predicated on this not being possible, which maybe is why they're so opposed to early puberty blockers? Plenty of adult transitioners go stealth, but if blockers were routine there'd be no perceptible differences.
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Replying to @life_minutiae @Shatterface and
I think this is related to why so much of the online discussion on this is profoundly uninteresting to me, like it's wholly divorced from any notion of how I am or should be living my life because it's based on pretending I don't exist.
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Replying to @life_minutiae @Shatterface and
I made a New Year's resolution to just never answer the question "Well can you define sex? Can you define man and woman?" again Surely answering it 50,000 times already is enough to ask of anybody I've done my part
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Did you? What was your answer?
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
I'm guessing you would rather that sex wasn't a thing at all? But it is a thing. It's important that we have language to be able to talk about it. It would help if we could do that without being called bigots.
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Replying to @ZombieTron @life_minutiae and
In an ideal world you could have all the stupid abstract philosophical debates about this in your drawing room that you wanted, and none of it would be used to enact material restrictions on other people's lives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Because removing all restrictions between the sexes is your goal? Best not have any people of one sex say that they want boundaries in some situations? Let's make it so they can't even speak about their needs without being silenced by accusations of bigotry? That it?
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Replying to @ZombieTron @life_minutiae and
At the very least, I think when you're telling someone to their face "I think you, personally, should be removed from the restroom you're peeing in under threat of arrest", you should have to defend that in a much more direct way than this horseshit about gametes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ZombieTron and
Like you understand this is just time-wasting chaff right All this bullshit about chromosomes and gametes is several steps back from what the conversation is really about, which is "I think you might be a violent rapist because of what your genitals were as a baby"
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And the "definition of sex" arguments are so you can avoid having an argument about that statement, which is the actual relevant idea that you believe that drives your actions Because you don't want to "sound bigoted" or get banned from Twitter for bigotry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ZombieTron and
Here's an idea for Zombie Tronathon, can we just let people tell us who they are and what they need? Like, err on the side of trusting that, if someone's telling you they're a woman, they're a woman?
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Replying to @whatsEJstandfor @arthur_affect and
Like, have all the philosophical discussions on definitions you want, but, in the mean time, until you settle on a definitive answer (which you won't, because humans are too complex to define in simple terms), just let people transition or present how they'd like
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