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Dee's avatar

1. What is a gender?

2. Do we also have internal versions of other physical characteristics like height or eye color that could be different from the physical characteristics? If I feel I was meant to be tall and want people to see me as tall, could I identify as tall even though I’m short?

3. What is accomplished by changing words? If I get someone to call me a “birthing parent” instead of a “mother”, that’s just a different word for the parent who gives birth to the child. Both express the idea that one parent gives birth while the other doesn’t. Why is “birthing parent” inclusive of trans people but “mother” isn’t?

4. How do you know what it feels like to be the opposite sex?

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Sly Fawkes's avatar

Exactly. Is my "authentic self" an eternal 25-year-old with a Playboy model body, flowing blonde hair, and emerald green eyes, even though I'm actually nearly 60 years old and have gray hair, moss-colored eyes, and look much more like Aunt Bee than Suzanne Somers? The surgeons and pill-peddlers would have a field day if they could convince me that were the case. This is why these gender affirmation specialists are targeting adolescent girls. Too many of us old broads have gotten wise to the bullshit peddled by diet doctors selling snake oil and surgeons promising the appearance of eternal youth. Number Twelve Looks Just Like You was not meant to be a how-to manual.

Also, why do we never see middle-aged women suddenly finding their "authentic self" and deciding we are "really men." It's always middle-aged men discovering they are "really women." You never hear about trans-identified females becoming "euphoric" after trying on their brother's or son's boxer shorts. It's always trans-identified males expressing euphoria after raiding a female relative's underwear drawer. But it's totally not a fetish.

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Q: Why do men who ideate they exist as a female persona insist on being called the "mother" of their children, displacing the biological mother? Why do female therapists of the "affirming" variety also insist on this for their patient, violating another woman's rights?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kto3_5SbAt0&t=14s

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