“People like me?” I am sure you would never say something insulting to a woman who declared that you were not a real man, because real men are tall. Or expressed repulsion at the idea that you are a “regular” person. Or beat you up because you’re pretending to be a man when you aren’t. Or strong-armed you out of the men’s room because you don’t belong there.
You are advocating for the “right” to be insulting and repulsive in your statements, and at the same time* expect no consequences for that.* You want to be rude and have that rudeness protected - because it is much worse to be called a “bigot” than to be called “disgusting” or “repulsive.”
No, how we react to people who don’t fit neatly into the gender binary is a social construct, but God and/or nature made people who don’t fit the gender binary.
Do you realize that scientists can create rats who don’t act according to rat gender norms by fiddling with the ratio of sex hormones they are exposed to in utero? Do you realize that a small number of people who are born who are literally hermaphrodites, with some bits of each sex?
How many people admit they aren’t gender-normative and how many stay deeply closeted are affected by social constructs. The existence of those people? Not so much.
DerekMichaels00, why can’t you just change your views to be more inclusive? I mean, your views are only in your head, right? You have no way of physically proving that your views exist, so by your standard, they are completely inconsequential and should be given no consideration by anyone else whatsoever.
TransAdvocate has a lot of articles and FAQs, as does the Transgender Law Center. On specific subjects like the brain, transition as effective treatment, and sports issues, I’ve done some work. The problem is that the haters just keep popping up, most refuse to read citations, others handwave away the ones they do read, or just fall back on the “it’s just common sense” canard. I’ve been trying to compile things myself but it’s like whack-a-mole.
I do not really care whether you “accept” transgender people or not. No one can force you to follow the dictates of your God to love other people.
However, the basis you put forth for your refusal to act in accordance with the dictates of your God is nonsense.
Please provide evidence that there is any serious effort by some mass of transgender people to overwhelm sports. Can you name anyone other than Renée Richards who has ever competed in major sporting events?
This is a nonsense argument against an invented problem.
This is nothing but a call to accept hatred in public. Lots of men (including a prominent presidential candidate) already declare various women “repulsive” without suffering any serious harm for their obnoxious behavior.
One more nonsense argument against an invented problem.
This is just silly. Utterly silly. There is not even a point to a person engaging in the behavior of what you appear to be afraid. (And you declare that you will only “accept” transgender people if you get some sort of guarantee that something that does not happen will never happen.)
One more nonsense argument against an invented problem.
The only reason that there is any media attention given to such people, today, is that morons in various state governments are going out of their way to penalize and discriminate against that tiny minority of people. Interracial marriage received the same sort of undue media attention when states went out of their way to interfere with human relations based on nonsense claims of a need for separation. If folks like you would simply accept that some people have different biological and psychological situations than your imagined as a child, the issue would no longer be of interest to anyone and the news media would wander off to report something else.
Now, your OP noted some assertions, now shown to be wrong, and asked some question, now answered.
You have not provided a single bit of serious evidence to dispute the facts, so I am puzzled why you continue to post unsupported opinions,often based on imaginary problems, in a debate forum.
You didn’t get a warning because you used hate speech; you got a warning because you engaged in “personal snarkiness” against the instruction of a mod.
If anything, transgender kids figure out they’re different before the gay kids do, and both of them figure it out way before the adults think they do.
Waiting until “a more mature age” can mean a someone can never pass as their identified gender vs. starting earlier. Of course, it depends on what you mean by “mature”. For underage kids nothing irreversible is done, the most is a delay of puberty for a couple years, and meanwhile the kid needs to be in therapy. If it turns out transition is not the thing for that person puberty-blockers can be discontinued. If transition is the game plan when the kid comes of age then, particularly the transwomen, can start their transition without having acquired a deep voice, beard, and other male secondary sexual characteristics which can impeded passing.
Whaddyamean you can’t prove it? What happened to strapping someone to a chair and showing them pictures while monitoring their vital signs? Is that off the table all of a sudden?
In a democratic society isn’t the point to respect the will of the majority? The majority might be un-enlightened but do you think insulting the majority is the best way to enact your agenda?
Maybe, but if so, nobody on Earth lives in a democratic society.
Well, this particular “agenda” is going to get enacted sooner or later just by virtue of old people dying off and younger people who don’t care about the issue replacing them.