LogFAQs > #886046779

HippopotamusRex posted...

Yes, everyone has heard of those.

Ehhh, I doubt that. And when someone makes a statement like you did, it's fair to assume I thought you didn't know. You're trying to rely on a simplistic analogy about the smallest unit of particles and try to extrapolate that as greater truths about gender identity as it relates to chromosomes? Sure, Klinefelter and Turner syndrome have nothing to do with gender identity, but it does throw a wrench in the people that rely on presumptions of binary physical genders at birth when the water is a bit murkier with respect to what can go wrong embryologically.

The point here is that it's not a massive intellectual leap to assume there is probably some pathway relating to gender identity in the brain. Maybe at some point in the future they are able to identify a lesion precisely. Maybe a therapy comes out that can alleviate it and it becomes an option for some. Until then, presupposing that other options exist and using that as a basis to stop basic human empathy is a little....fucked up.

Them asking to merely acknowledge their experience as a possibility is not them forcing or imposing their beliefs on you. It's literally nothing more than a call for empathy. And given the history of homosexuality with respect to sexual orientation, or deaf communities choosing to forgo new treatment modalities like cochlear implants because they identify culturally around their "defect", the human experience has wiggle room for not necessarily classifying it as something that must be stomped out.

If getting flustered that being asked to refer to them as a pronoun you wouldn't expect is too much, you might want to reconsider how reasonable you think you are. And I wouldn't predicate a few bad eggs who might come off as a bit more militant with their expectations as the norm. Because I'm willing to wager the way others treat them on average is far worse.
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