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| Callixtus 09/05/17 12:35:52 AM #173: | Tmk posted... If you wish to move the argument from being about transgender people to being about whether or not being transgender is the same as wanting to cut all your limbs off, it means you can't actually argue about the original issue. No it's actually pointing out an inconsistency. I see no real distinction between someone with a mental disorder wishing to have their limbs removed because they believe that they should be a limbless person, and someone who wishes to have their testes removed because they believe they are a woman. These are both instances of a person who is clearly confused or distressed about the state of their reality, who seeks to rectify that situation through an act of violence against the self, because it is violence to me, to destroy one's functional body parts because they are vexed by reality. Yet even most progressives would say that a person who wishes to removes a limb is mentally ill, but would not apply the same standard to transpeople, without arguing a particular point to distinguish the two cases. The answer to me seems to be not reason, but ideology. --- KhanofKhans, KhanJohnson, Saloonist, Basileos ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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