Posted on 07/11/2018 4:58:24 AM PDT by Petrosius
Using the transgender pronoun accepts the premise that transgender is real. Bruce Jenner is “he” and always will be.
No free speech in countries under the Brit crown.
We have a “transgender” in my wife’s family, a first cousin. He has been for his entire life one mentally messed up hombre. For years, we kept hearing about this and that diagnosis. He once changed his name thinking that would cure his ills. Then, about 15 years ago he got married to some female loony bird. Then the two of them had a child who’s now 10.
About 3 years ago he finally “realized” that all along he was a woman trapped inside a man’s body. Renamed himself a second time. Started wearing dresses and earrings. Note that he was not a very attractive dude but since he’s 45, overweight, and already balding he is an especially unattractive “woman.”
His mother, a very left wing progressive who is a reliable liberal on all issues, hates his claim to be a woman. She has all sorts of other diagnoses.
And his wife? She is still married to him. Two women married to each other now. He has not has surgery ... readers can fill in the blanks about their marital intimacy.
I do have sympathy for the fellow. Born with severe emotional problems and always searching for the answer that will make him feel normal. Becoming transgender was just another one of those possible answers and, in this case, puts him in a protected status as a victim, too.
As for his child, that will be one really messed up kid, by the way.
Preferred pronouns as to gender does deserve a classic and comical and satirical FR thread of its own. It would also be fun to use strange pronouns in real life as a protest. Yet bureaucrats in some agency or an activist judge could make pronouns the next "gay wedding cake" issue in America to the glee of the LGBTQ community. What I want to know is when old white farts can have their own protected class.
Ooooh oooooh! I have an annual appointment next month! I am hoping this question is on the form!!
It will be fun to have all the office workers and the doc address me as Grand Poobah!
:: sex is biological ::
So, if you believe a person’s sex if “fluid”, would that make you a science denier?
My tagline...
When you have “rights” that exist only for specific people you have a problem. Maybe he should be shouting about “inequality” under the law, as he is religious he’s not receiving the same protection.
I will not submit! I will not call a man a woman or a woman a man! Who could have imagined that would be considered a revolutionary act!
>>In the same situation the only pronouns I’d use are “him”,”her” and “it”.Anything else...you’re outta luck,pal.<<
In this case it is MEDICINE! You HAVE to use the correct sex b/c so much of biology is tied to sex.
“You say you are menstruating more this month Mr. Jones?” It makes no sense.
The human body and medical science does NOT respond to pronouns.
Put me in the jury. You can do identify as you want. But your plumbing identifies your gender!
>>It will be fun to have all the office workers and the doc address me as Grand Poobah!<<
I was thinking “Your Wonderfulness.”
Yes...... I know of two similar individualsl.
One seems to be well adjusted however. I served with Rick on the Board of Directors of our local Jaycees. He was presumedly happily married with two kids. He ran a successful insurance office for a national company. He was a good ol boy beer drinking buddy.
To what seems everybody, he left his wife and became a women. The company had no problem with his name change to Rikki. He is a very good businessman and has prospered. He became associated with a lesbian who had several children. He created for her a business and also one for her mother. Her kids came of age and they are all in business.
It is a very straange state of family affairs but aside from the jilted wife and husband apparently is a very prosperous arrengement.
I am his/her custonet that sometimes still calls he Rick.
How about: “Hey, You!”
The other day, I greeted two young (Men, I think), with You Folks...
I carefully chose my words.
Jordan Peterson is giving some professionals SPINE.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
there are no transgenders. there are merely freaks.
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They used to be called “drag queens” Perhaps we should use prefix Queen “so and so” or king “so and so” to remove all doubt as to how important it is that we not offend any of these misguided, self-loathing, mutilators
Gender is defined by biology no matter how many ways you mess with it you can’t change mother nature.
No, gender is just a grammatical concept. The idea that gender/identity is something that can be chosen that override your sex is an absurdity that slithered out of Women’s Sudies and Queer Studies departments. People have a sex, and (some) words have gender.
No, gender is just a grammatical concept. The idea that gender/identity is something that can be chosen that override your sex is an absurdity that slithered out of Women’s Sudies and Queer Studies departments. People have a sex, and (some) words have gender.
Sex and gender are different. The former is a matter of biology, the latter a matter of grammar. People have a sex; words have a gender.
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