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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It doesn't, much as schizophrenia doesn't make the dead come back as voices in the afflicted person's head.

That's really not a valid counter-example. Try again, preferably explaining your point itself instead of saying something poorly-considered that you think is self-evident.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

You can respect a person's choice to believe something different, but I understand that's a difficult concept for you.

This is not a belief, though. It's an identity. "This is who I am" is far deeper than "this is how I feel," and should be treated accordingly. If not, you aren't actually respecting it.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Gender can't be nurtured, much as you can't nurture your hair brown.

Again, poor counter-example, especially where environmental factors can change your hair colour (namely the sun, ignoring the obvious hair dye). If you're going to make a counter-example like that, you need to do a lot more to link it to the actual subject than "I guess they're both things that happen in the body and that means they're the same," because self-identity is very, very different from hair colour.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

To a point it's harmless to play along, but if it's taken far enough you're enabling a mental illness and it's no better than giving money to an addict.

How so? I see comments like that a lot, but they're never anything more than vague, conceptual quips that sound more or less logically valid, but never actually look at what the most effective treatments are to make the analogy any more concrete than that. That makes sense, given that it's not laypeople's job to determine the ideal treatment approach, but that becomes a problem when those laypeople decide that the doctors prescribing the treatment are wrong, without any basis. Just let the doctors figure it out, and do what they tell you to in the mean time.
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