# Do the existing rules prohibit people from debating the gender of people who identify as transgender?

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**Created:** [December 5, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-existing-rules-prohibit-people-from-debating-the-gender-of-people-who-identify-as-transgender/927272 "2020-12-05T05:45:56Z")
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### Author: ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-existing-rules-prohibit-people-from-debating-the-gender-of-people-who-identify-as-transgender/927272/86 "2020-12-06T16:02:01Z")

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> [@Ruken](#):
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> If this board is dedicated to fighting ignorance, then it’s no loss if people who aren’t interested in or aren’t capable of fighting ignorance flounce.

I wish, wish, wish _so_ much that the stupid, stupid tagline never made it across to Discourse.

This board is not primarily “dedicated to fighting ignorance”, and hasn’t been for decades. It’s a social message board first, a debate club a _very_ distant second. And social spaces shouldn’t be havens for hatred in the guise of enquiry. The mod staff _eventually_ learned this for scientific racism and MRA misogyny, one hopes they’ll be quicker for transphobia-disguised-as-feminism

And one person’s “flounce” is another person’s “driven away by hatred”.

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