A lot of this post is going to be me saying things equivalent to “I didn’t say that,” so I wonder who’s really making strawman arguments.
Did I say this? No, it shows that they didn't use transitioning to commit crimes against women. xD
Women's opinions only exist if they're in agreement...
If anyone's taken an intro to philosophy class, they're familiar with this problem. It was originally proposed by Philippa Foot. I'll give you guys her original scenario, and then a few modified versions. Discuss what you would do in each situation, and why:
General Scenario: You're walking...
To JG:
Of these stories, only three actually refer to transgender people. Those three stories are about crimes committed pre-transition. Hall was already a prisoner during the time she transitioned. Either way, transgender people commit crimes =/= transgendered people don't have a...
Incremental change is a long-term solution, and is the model for how both the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement in the United States achieved success. If you remove all steps of incremental change, there is no long-term change. A large-scale revolution in how people perceive...
I mean I responded literally directly to quotes in that post, but you moved or deleted the post and it ended up being after my...forget it.
Sure. But I was mainly responding to what you said about you not just thinking you're female, but being essentially female.
Yeah, I know. Structural...
Misleading title. He doesn't lead the TG effort in NC. He leads one of the organizations that (supposedly, the article didn't even show an example - they just seem to have picked an organization that identifies as LGBT) may campaign in NC. News-wise, they haven't been relevant for two years...
I responded to some of the stuff JG said in my other post, but I guess editing chaos happened. I'll respond to what's available now that I haven't responded to previously in this post, and hope things work themselves out. xD
If you read what I've been saying in this thread, I've been saying...
No. The state can pass whatever it wants to pass, and it is generally assumed that the state will not do anything that directly transgresses against the Constitution. Trans rights are a political grey area, and the Obama administration has until now taken a 'wait and see' approach to the issue...
Not all trans people want to transition.
The cause of what makes trans people want to transition cannot be boiled down to the fact that there are bathrooms for men and bathrooms for women. They're not transitioning to access a correct bathroom, they're transitioning in order to be treated as...
I think you're speaking for transgendered people in saying they're being "forced" to pick male or female. Afaik, those who identify specifically as trans, and not as something like "genderqueer" or "two-spirit" or "bigender" or "agender," literally do identify themselves as male or female (i.e...
1) The issue is at hand because North Carolina issued a law which legalized discrimination against transgendered people (well beyond just bathroom rights, by the way). This has forced Obama's administration to take a stance, and since the Bill undeniably restricts the rights of people, they...
It's the same whenever there's a majority opinion in any given area.
You're coming at the stance of people being born with a gender, and switching. The way people who identify as transgender see it, and the way people who support them see it, is that they were in fact always born with the...