I'm forever seeing discussions where ontology and semantics get mixed up. (deep sigh~)
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… Put another way: Since the current progressive consensus seems to be that gender is a mindstate, it is however one defines it. It is a semantic problem. The ontological problems are being created primarily through language. …
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… Remove the language (“man,” “woman,” etc.) and we are left with the physical body and the desire for it to be something it is not, the OTHER body type, to be remedied through makeup, clothing, medication, surgery, so that one can SIMULATE the OTHER.
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… From “deadnaming” to pronouns to claims over “manhood” and “womanhood,” this is primarily a battle over language. I find the whole thing ridiculous.
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… If bottom surgery and even HRT is voluntary and not required to be one gender or another, what is gender? Why should it have anything to do with one's legal status?
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folks love their protecced classes
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