There's a certain degree of rational nuance on this topic which is often missing. I'd like to present my position on this in a way which appeals to both sides, and I don't think it's a stretch for either one to agree with what I'm saying.
That said it seems to be so easy to consider this position common sense and simply founded that this conflict shouldn't exist. On those grounds I think most people on either end of the spectrum just want to keep a fight going for the sake of creating a conflict. If you fall into one of those camps you can just stop reading here.
There are two degrees of identity relevant to this conversation. One is gender, and one is sex. From most people, including the government, sex is the identifier which is important as it has physical trades tide to its definition that accurately defined the person. This is relevant for genitals and bio mass. Accordingly, for the sake of funding based on these physical traits, the relevance of sex starts and ends here.
Gender at the subjective level is completely made-up amd is wholly self-identifying. Anybody may select whatever gender they so well choose. It's such a fickle means of identifying the individual, it really loses all value. Some prominent individuals say there are unlimited genders. Unless youāre comparing people on a slide rule your created role is worthless. One camp likes to entrench this as being the exact same thing as sex, which is not necessarily true as evidenced by their own beliefs. The other side likes to say that sex is inherently gender which is also not necessarily true because one has hooks in biology and the other has hooks in sexual preference which is much more fluid than hard science.
There are exceptions to both halves.
This topic tends to get muddy given that each side is trying to impose a mutually exclusive will onto the other. Some of these cases implicate peopleās freedoms, which is inherently wrong. There is a certain danger to the current climate for one side or the other in that there is one definitive victor when looking at social cues and support from politicians. That victor is going way too far in their plans for policy and social change as they continue to crank the pendulum ever higher. It will swing back one day, and who knows what kind of collateral that correction will cause.
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I dont care. I believe in freedom, liberty. I know these days that's crazy talk.
Let people be what they want to be.
The problem is, that government has to inject itself into everything.
Now, because some people believe in different genders, we have to make government reforms of this or that kind. It could just be extra boxes to tick on the gender section of a form.
Or it could be compelled speech by law.
My problem is that we need to use government to force all people to accept a certain belief, and if they dont, they should suffer some kind of consequence.
That's not liberty in my mind. That is tyranny. People should, in my opinion have the ideals of freedom in their minds.
On one hand, those who hate on trans and non binary gendered people, are being hypocritical. By believing in freedom, one understands and accepts that differing groups with different cultures will appear.
On the other hand, we have those who wish to force people by law to use proper gender pronouns as decided the person.
Again, in a society that values freedom and diversity as I do, such a thing would rarely be a problem.
But that's not the society we live in. Instead, conservatives reject all this non binary stuff because to admit it means their own views are flawed.
Well they are. You have forgotten about freedom of the individual.
Well, whatever. I know I'm the crazy person here.
The question is why don't you believe it? God made only two genders - Male and Female - Men made more. So you can go with God or go with men. Like going with men has made people less likely to kill each other. Right!
for me there are only two genders, male and female,
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I don't see this as a matter of belief but a language issue. From my standpoint, the way people sneakily tried to change the definition of "gender" to be independent of "sex" in recent decades while introducing all sorts of new gender identities and pronouns makes the language incredibly ambiguous.
A statement like, "men can get pregnant too," would have been considered absurdly incorrect when I was young even though people would insist that it is a correct statement today, which means we have greatly lost language precision and clarity. Instead of extending the language like, "Transmen can pregnant too," which I consider perfectly fine and accurate, they diluted the practical definition of existing terms like "man" and "woman".
I don't like turning the language upside-down in this sense. I'm fine with extending it but I prefer to reserve terms like "man" for someone with male reproductive organs and "woman" for someone with female reproductive organs.FUNCTIONALLY 'yes'
Reproduction which IS Nature's "end game"
REQUIRES a viable womb, eggs and the transfer of species DNA Spermazoa.
BUT... there IS so MUCH ancillary psychologically 'warping' societal behaviors involved
that 'trans' has almost become a 'cause celeb' for those who MOSTLY perceive
their 'feminine potential' (and social advantage 'opportunities')
that female impersonators and Asian 'Lady Boys' 'mine'
external fantasy gay dress-up cosplay.
"I'll play with your's... if you play with mine"THe biological genders are two. The remainder are sexual perversions that, for some reason, have become important outside of one's sexual preferences sphere.
If a stupid fucker likes to dress up as a woman when it's funtime or some other dimwit took the very crossdressing vice a step onward and gets a pair of plastic boobs implanted and wants me to address him like a woman, he's sorrily mistaken. If anything, I'm going to treat him like a mental case who's better not stray close to the women's restrooms.I am happy if people want to identify with what makes them comfortable. Iāve got friends that tick the majority of boxes.
couple caveats,
it does not harm others
they accept that they may be addressed as male or female pronouns, Iām not a mind reader a āgirlā with blonde hair and boobs is maāam or similar, using the word āYouā is just impolite.
that they accept people get pissed off when they change their minds.
not to be fanatical as itās the best way to actually lose supporters..Just from the standpoint of biology, there are more than just XY and XX combinations. XXX, XXXX, XXY, XXXY, XYY, XYYY are just a few and then there are people who have deformed X and Y chromosomes and a whole slew of various hormonal imbalances. Then there are a whole bunch of psychological manifestations of gender in between the two basic common genders. Also consider that most of what we see as gender is a social construct more than a biological fact. We see the wearing of garments or length of hair or use of cosmetics as defining gender yet none of those things has any affect on whether two people can reproduce together.
"They" also said that the Earth is flat. Don't believe everything "they" say. The vast majority of people either have XX or XY for their 23rd pair. There are a VERY FEW who have XYX, XXX, or some other weird mutation, but that does not account for all the freaks who think they are a girl when they've clearly got balls and a dick.
Yes, there are only two. Even the people and organizations that claim there are many will describe the 'other' genders as "somewhere on the spectrum between male and female". When we talk about colors, we don't describe red in relation to black and white because we dont have to. Its red.
The real problem is people are trying to define themselves by their sexuality, which is kinda nonsensical. If you don't want to be judged by your sexuality, don't define yourself by it.
I won't judge you for it, but I will judge you for defining yourself by it because I'll assume there's nothing else about your personality worth knowing.I know Scientifically there is more than 2 genders so. There is only 2 sex's but only thing i have to say to that is you can be born with both male and female privates so... scientifically it's not as simple as look at what you have down there like some idiots say.
But hey if people want to believe in stuff rather than follow facts let them be idiots.The left changed the definition of 'gender' to mean little more than a fashion sense and personality. It's become a meaningless term that's purposefully dragged into the political debate because of victimhood celebration that the left is always participating in.
Yes, because there are only 2 and that is objectively probable by science. The same science people refer to when they say they donāt believe in God because science canāt prove his existence, but reject when it stands in the way of making people except thereās over 40+ genders. What a bunch of diluted hypocrites.
Well lmfao
I think thereās two. Regardless of how someone identifies, at the end of the day, theyāre one or the other.
The Bible says man and woman and that is what nature made and what I believe.
I know there's only two biological sexes. And there's only two social constructs of gender and every one falls somewhere on the spectrum between those 2 genders. Not every arbitrary point of that spectrum is a new gender. The alphabet sexuality community is just plain wrong about that.
Gender is a social construct, so in theory there can be a virtually unlimited amount.
Though to be clear, that doesn't mean they're all equally legitimate. I'm simply being technical, here. The confines of social constructs are virtually, if not actually, unrestricted.Unless someone let E. T make a collect call home lol There are only 2 A Queen & King 😁! Why is this a question did I miss something is there mutants out there lol Aliens if that's the case damn lol
I really don't know why what someone wants to identify themselves as is so important to others.
If it makes them happy let them do what they want.
People so controlling.
You must think like me, or get bullied.40... I don't know we should recognize that we are all different and can't live in a society that wants simplistic black and white standards for everyone but needing to name out 40 or more genders is way too much
Science says there are two, religions usually agree there are two.. so itās hard to agree that a mental disorder merits the existence of a new gender magically existing.. gender exists for breeding purposes. Itās not a window into the soul.
There can be as many genders as we want because it's a social construct and a social creation not based on scientific or "natural" phenomenons. In many cultures, there exists a 3rd gender too.
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