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Stop Calling Trans Women "Male"
Freethought Blogs ^ | June 1, 2015 | "Zinnia Jones" (Zachary Antolak)

Posted on 06/06/2015 11:11:45 AM PDT by Salman

Calling trans women “male” is like the background noise of transphobia. It comes from many directions, and it’s pretty much constant. On one level, it’s a lazy invalidation of who and what we are, offered up by armchair biology fans who insist that trans women are always and forever “male”. On another, it’s unwittingly perpetuated rhetoric by people trying to provide 101-level explanations of what it means to be transgender while unaware that they may be causing even more confusion. And, of course, it’s overtly weaponized as a rallying cry of those looking to keep our genders from being recognized and protected under the law.

But this concept of physical sex as permanent and inescapable is actually incomplete, inaccurate, and irrelevant. Are trans women really “male” in any way that matters? I don’t think so.

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To: cradle of freedom
A man is still a man if he loses his penis.

Many men have had to have their penis's removed because of an accident or because of cancer or infection. I think they would be shocked if told they are no longer men because of it.

Males have XY chromosomes, females have XX.

When someone can change that, I will believe they have changed their sex.

81 posted on 06/06/2015 12:40:03 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: cradle of freedom

The cult of Cybele also had eunuch priests, but it wasn’t very large, nor did it originate in Greece, as the Dionysus one did.


82 posted on 06/06/2015 12:42:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: katana

[This one flunked biology. I have always wished I had wings, or could induce an anti-gravity effect, and could fly. I’m able to in my lucid dreams. But just because I can board a plane and take flight I’m not now and never will be a bird.]

You cut to the heart of it sword.


83 posted on 06/06/2015 12:45:02 PM PDT by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
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To: nopardons

Thanks, my memory didn’t fail me even though I read this some years ago.


84 posted on 06/06/2015 12:45:03 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Salman

Mentally defective is the preferred terminology.


85 posted on 06/06/2015 12:46:35 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: hosepipe

If it has boy parts, it is a boy. If it has girl parts, it is a girl.
Toddlers learn this and understand it.
The rare one in a thousand biological accident doesn’t contradict that binary male/female dynamic for the human species.
It takes an extreme degree of mental illness to contradict such a basic fact, and radical political view to think that validating someone’s mental illness and castigating those who don’t play along are wrong.
But adding breasts to a man with a penis doesn’t make him a woman, it simply demonstrates the degree to which he’s willing to mutilate his body to fit the disorder. It fits into the coming out of the “trans-disabled” and those who remove limbs to feel whole - they are severely mentally ill, and liberals think we should accept and endorse their illness.
The irony is that by saying we should tolerate a man in a dress as a woman based on how he acts is that it undermines the entire feminist view that there’s no real difference between men and women, and that gender roles (outside childbirth) are social constructs. Yet here are men in dresses, defining their gender based on aping female stereotypes, and even criticizing women who don’t follow them. (I’ve had to deal with this, and filed a corporate sexual harassment claim on a man in a dress for exactly this manner, so I do get it.)
Idiotic is also the claim that you can have a female brain in a male body, thus suggesting that there is a female brain (yes, men tend to have better spacial skills, and women more verbal skills, but it isn’t nearly as strict as penis/vagina.) The horror is that these men tend to remain heterosexual, so they demand to enter the women’s bathroom like a woman, while retaining the sexual attraction TO women.
It is as bad as a homosexual Scout leader taking boys on a campout; you shouldn’t have a person sexually attracted to their charges in a position of authority, and ideally, not with them at all. The atrocity of the transgender man is that he’s in the women’s spaces, separated for the women’s protection, while demanding validation and accommodation - so a woman’s right to privacy somehow includes abortion but not going to the bathroom or taking a shower without a mentally ill man looking at her, criticizing her for being uncomfortable.
Then there’s the bizarre delusion that pumping someone full of hormones and ripping apart the body somehow proves that the sex barrier is NOT a big one.


86 posted on 06/06/2015 12:47:23 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Salman

If i tape cardboard to my arms and tell you I’m an airplane, would you:

1) Celebrate the fact that I’ve ‘found my true self’ and act as if I really am an airplane?

2) Recognize that I am not well and recommend counselling or psychiatric help?

3) Present me with the ESPY Arthur Ashe award for courage?


87 posted on 06/06/2015 12:47:41 PM PDT by Sodbuster
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To: Organic Panic

“I was born a poor black child”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAvQp-Uk5I


88 posted on 06/06/2015 12:47:59 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Rastus

There hasn’t been as much backlash as I thought there would be for Bruce Jenner being given an ESPY bravery award, over a girl who kept playing sports with brain cancer, and the teenaged girl DIED of the cancer a couple weeks ago.


89 posted on 06/06/2015 12:48:49 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Salman

Butchery doesn’t change the chromosomes.

They are what they were born as.


90 posted on 06/06/2015 12:48:49 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Chode

I stopped into a county deli in the Adirondacks one time for coffee and they had a chalkboard with a “word of the day”, whereby if you gave the definition you got a free coffee. The word was Transmogrification. I walked out with a free coffee.


91 posted on 06/06/2015 12:51:11 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Salman
I want to be young again... perhaps 25 or so. If I fill out a form saying that I now identify as a 25-year old, and the government issues me new ID cards reflecting my new age, then will the world be required to play along and pretend that I'm 25? If someone tells me that I look much older than 25, can I sue them for "hate speech"?

If young ladies refuse to date me because they cling to outdated methods for determining my age, will they be shunned and ridiculed in public for being "chronophobes" or something?

92 posted on 06/06/2015 12:51:15 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: HarleyLady27
Male turning into female: “IT”
Female turning into male: “IT”

Male attempting to turn into female: Mentally ill, still male.
Female attempting to turn into male: Mentall ill, still female.

93 posted on 06/06/2015 12:52:23 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: SaxxonWoods
So, if I have antlers inserted into my head will I be a deer?

Probably not, but if you have feces inserted into your skull, you will be a liberal.

94 posted on 06/06/2015 12:57:58 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: xzins

[So, they practice on us, telling us ridiculous things to see if we’ll go along if they repeat the lie often enough.

But Jenner is a guy. He has a penis. (Someplace...maybe it was cremated...who knows?)]

True, Jenner still has his meat, but does he still have his cojones? If not, that would explain why we can call our Congress Critters trans.....


95 posted on 06/06/2015 12:59:04 PM PDT by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
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To: Salman

I knew one.
Bat S*** crazy and ugly to boot.
He also knew he was a protected class so he could get away with stuff normal humans couldn’t.


96 posted on 06/06/2015 1:01:12 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Salman
Stop Calling Trans Women "Male"

"Stop using Bad think! Big Brother won't like it! "

Got news for you wannabe liars, a "Y" chromosome doesn't disappear because someone puts on dresses and fake boobs.

How about *YOU* stop trying to piss on us and tell us it's raining? The absurdity and offense is entirely on YOUR END of the conversation.

97 posted on 06/06/2015 1:06:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: bert

Delgender = Delusional about your gender

Or
Chromephobic = Scared of their own chromosomes


98 posted on 06/06/2015 1:10:54 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: South40
I sent it to a niece who is a militant lesbian. She wrote back and told me it’s not the same thing because humans are intelligent, thinking beings, cats aren’t. I told her all the more reason why humans should accept that if they were born with a penis they are a man and if they were born without one they are a woman. She didn’t respond.

Better yet, tell her that a "Y" chromosome means ever single cell of their body is male. It's as if ever single cell has a penis.

The only cells of the human body that think they are female are a small group of defective ones in the brains of transgender wannabes, but even those cells have "Y" chromosomes, making them male despite what they want to believe.

99 posted on 06/06/2015 1:12:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Chode

some of us have bad eyes and Calvin deserves to be heard

100 posted on 06/06/2015 1:15:39 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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