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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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.
