As a consequence, have a person’s kids taken away? Or should there be any consequences?
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I’m straightforward and don’t want to give any ‘fluff’ So I don’t know how else to ask this question without it sounding rage baity.
This isn’t a gotcha or trap to argue with anyone I feel and believe I can learn something of value from people I disagree with. It is interesting to know why you disagree and what reasons make you feel x y and z about things.
I’m here to listen, not judge or throw around name calling or fight with you. You feel the way you do for whatever reason, and I want to know a little more about why you do and that is it.
I would like for everyone to feel confident voicing how they feel about this question. I don’t care if I disagree with you. Fighting with you is not how I’d like to spend my evening. I’m sure you don’t either.
I might ask follow ups like, “Why is it that you feel that way?” Or “can you tell me a little bit more” so I can understand your point of view better. And that’s it.
If that feels too much or you don’t want to. Totally fine. Just ignore my comment to you.
Thanks for your time.
a) we’re not in an ideal society, and b) some forms of dysphoria have nothing to do with gender, and are related to the physicality of the bodies we inhabit, and even in an “ideal” society, trans folk would still need to navigate this.
Source, I desperately wanted to be a girl when I was 5. Because of the ignorance/transphobia of society, I was forced through a puberty that has forever changed my body in ways that still bring me pain and discomfort decades later. I was finally able to access social and medical transition later in life, but doing so has had huge financial and social consequences that have set me on the back foot compared to my peers, and it still didn’t bring me the childhood I was denied.