The most important question you can ask yourself, as a person who is just learning about trans issues and hearing a lot of conflicting messages, is "How does this work when trans people aren't involved?"
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For just about every issue the anti-trans activists bring up they rely on using scary sounding language to describe how things normally work for everyone, assuming most people won't realize they're describing normal social functioning in scary terms.
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Often transphobes describe the threat using hyperbolic phrases like "the erasure of women." How would this work? Step one: Roughly 1 percent of people are allowed to socially and legally change their sex Step two: ??? Step three: Women have been erased
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Other examples: Birth certificates have never been a factual record of what happened at a birth. Legal name changes happen routinely for all sorts of reasons. People often go by names other than their legal names. Language routinely evolves, including pronoun usage.
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