Gender meaning what you identify as is not true. Sure, it might mean what you identify as, meaning Male or Female, because no one was dumb enough to have a **** yet claim they were female back them. Its the same as '***'. There was no such thing as "what made up gender you identify as" until recently.
Yep, it's just semantics.
It's obvious you are too illiterate to understand what he's saying. "That's ***, not gender." As if the word 'gender' wasn't a euphemism for '***'.
Gender is a euphemism for ***. They're the same thing.
It tickles me when people say "It's just semantics." Like, you realize that English is a living language, right? Meaning that it's still changing and evolving. Do you have any idea how many words mean something now while meaning something entirely different? The word "nice" used to mean "foolish," "awful" used to mean worthy of being awed, "clue" used to mean a ball of yarn. Are you gonna start using those words in those meanings because that's what they used to be synonyms for? No, because that would be non-hypocritical, so of course you aren't.
There was once a time when *** and gender were used interchangeably in all settings, and were 100% synonymous. But, that's archaic. Our understanding of *** and gender identity during those times were more limited. Now that our understanding has broadened, language has evolved to the point that there is a distinction between *** and gender. Yes, people often use them interchangeably these days still, but that's informal. Formally, they do not refer to the same thing.
If you go into a conversation with someone who's using them in a formal context, and you insist that it only exists in the informal context, you're being willfully ignorant, and your foolishness just means you'll be left behind in ignorance as our understanding of *** and gender identity broadens and evolves and our language evolves in tandem with it.
I denied those "large organizations" because what they're saying is a sack of shit.
Yes, the leading organizations in psychology are a sack of shit because their conclusions formed through decades of empirical research differ from your opinions formed through archaic terminology and ignorance.
They are claiming it doesnt cause enough distress to be classified a mental illness, even though it HAS been proven that transgenders are 20x more likely to commit suicide.
20x? Call it a gut feeling, but I'm sure you're fluffing it. And it's not classified as a mental illness because there isn't evidence that being transgender causes as much as distress as opposed to the external, societal factors that do, nor is there evidence that higher suicidal tendencies are caused simply by being transgender. The fact that like AFK you fail to understand even the simple concept of correlation=/=causation speaks volumes.
Rather than helping these people, they decide to let them permanently remove their genitalia, completely destroying their reproductive system. Lol.
Except the surgeries don't prevent them from feeling sexual pleasure, allowing their reproductive system to fulfill a primary function. They might not be able to reproduce, but that hardly matters in the full scope of human experience.
The Hijra are transgender for religious/cultural reasons.
Bolded part is the only one that matters. You said transgenders were a new thing, he provided proof that transgenders existed thousands of years ago. You can find all the "they were transgenders because of XYZ" all you want, they were still transgenders.
