🏕️ Autumn @lucian How do I report content? Just saw the N word being used as a username. :/

🗜️ Mx Lol. Here comes the thought police. How can any normal 21st century person be okay with illegal words, animals, plants or people?

🌘 Alana because I'm transgender, and it honestly just fukin wears me down to see slurs thrown around casually. stopped using a forum I liked because one of the users had "tr*nny" in their name. it just sucks, you know? I'll go somewhere else, and then the racists and people who are okay with racists will stay. evaporative cooling, if you will. check out decriminalizenatur... btw.

🗜️ Mx First off, there is no such thing as "transgender". You can mutilate your body all you want and take all the pharmaceuticals you can, you still won't be able to change your gender. You're just going to look weird and condemn yourself to a lifetime of social agony. Secondly, nobody owes you comfort and happiness. If words offend you, then you're already vulnerable to all forms of communication and you should stay away from people in general - both online and offline alike.

🔻 Trinity ah, feck off. it's pretty standard scientific consensus that this stuff is valid: health.clevelandcl.... but, yes, the ability to endure slurs is a necessity in order to participate in intellectual conversation. to me it's odd though that something like the n-word is permitted on a seemingly professional site like this :shrug:

🌚 Nlggers I disagree with your views but I respect that they are what you believe to be true and the fact that you advocate for what you believe is likely rooted in good intentions. It's my view that gender does not exist and that biological sex is determined by chromosomes. I believe genital mutilation is an abhorrent treatment for the mentally ill and my hope is that this practice will be eliminated within my lifetime.

🔻 Trinity I too believe in the abolishment of gender but probably in a dramatically different way. If you think sex is determined by chromosomes, what about the (somewhat atypical) third sex chromosome in many? It's possible to be XY, XX, XXY, XYY, etc. Doesn't that go against the idea of any sort of binary in terms of sex?

🗜️ Mx Those chromosome abnormalities are exceptionally rare, and they're unfortunate but abnormalities nevertheless. Some people are born blind. Does that mean that eyesight is a spectrum and a choice, and one can alter it with their mind?

🔻 Trinity No, but while the lack of eyesight is a physical ailment, being born as the wrong gender is more of a psychological ailment. Sure, scientists in a thousand years or so will probably have a pill to cure gender dysphoria. But for now, eh. If they look like a dude, and dress like a dude, they're a dude to me. There's no epidemic of trans-committed crime, they're actually more likely to be killed: channel4.com/news/...

🗜️ Mx Those people exist and they're entitled to life, happiness and a right to be employed. Just please don't show me "articles" about gender euphoria being normal and something that can happen to anyone. It's a severe (though non-violent) mental disease and it should not be normalized.

🤔 David And how did @deven share an article about "gender uphoria being normal and something that can happen to anyone"? I have not read any contributions that are attempting to "normalize" trans attitudes *in the framing that you present--that is, that as trans becomes "popular" then more people will attempt it*. Rather, what I read is an acknowledgment of their situation. Nobody can "become trans" just like the terrible argument that people can "become gay"