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adjl posted...

Clearly, the answer is for everyone to stop being assholes about it, so that sheltering them from assholes while in school ends up being reflective of the real world.

C V
It's claiming the authority to tell one person what they can or can't say to another person.
Plus, I don't think it's being an asshole to say that approximating the appearance of a man or a woman doesn't actually make you one if you weren't already.

adjl posted...

They are literally the only person who has that authority.

C V
Yes, it's their name. They have ownership of it. But it's the other person's speech. Someone else has ownership of addressing them.
Directing speech at a person doesn't transfer ownership of the speech.

adjl posted...

Conveniently, there's a whole field of medicine dedicated to figuring that out. Maybe people should defer to what that field says instead of deciding they know better?

That's surrendering a lot of personal responsibility to academics. Academics who get research money based on how useful their findings will be to the current political climate and other interest groups. Academics who risk their careers if someone on social media thinks their findings are racist, sexist, or "something"phobic. Academics who themselves may subscribe to certain ideologies. It would be wise to consider their findings but not to put total faith in them.

adjl posted...

Depends how you define each of those latter states.

I define them in biological terms. Gender difference exist to facilitate procreation. Each gender has a carrier agent that is used to pass on their genes to the next generation and each type of carrier agent is specific to that gender.

However current identity politics puts forth that there are no biological gender difference. Gender is social construct that can be defined any way that is convenient for the moment.
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