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Transgenderism: Perception and Reality are Two Different Things
American Thinker.com ^ | July 30, 2021 | Michael J. Miller

Posted on 07/30/2021 3:57:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

Several weeks ago I read that singer Demi Lovato came out as non-binary and would be using pronouns they/them to describe herself . . . wait . . . to describe themselves, or them, or they . . . or . . . you get the drift! I’m guessing non-binary means that she is not two people, a definition I can get behind; but, why then does she call herself them? I’m thinking my definition of non-binary may be contrary to what it actually means. My sexagenarian mind finds it difficult to wrap around these concepts because, when I was young, we only had two genders – male and female. Today, according to Dude Asks, apparently the definitive authority on gender, there are upwards of 112 different genders ranging from “Neutrois” to “Verangender.”

Not only are there now 112 genders, everyone gets to choose pronouns to identify themselves. One business encouraged its employees to add their chosen pronouns to their official email signature. After all, nothing screams corporate responsibility more than the injection of sex and gender dysphoria into the customer service experience. One employee toyed with the idea of adding “she/dinosaur/carbuncle” as her preferred pronouns before realizing a paycheck was still needed and thought better of the idea.

Perhaps the biggest problem we face living in a gender-rich society is simply interacting with our fellow human beings. Since it is literally impossible to identify gender by sight today (right?), we all risk “triggering” someone by using the wrong pronoun. It’s now an incredible faux pas to address someone who looks like a woman as “her” when “ze” or “hir” is hir preferred pronoun. So when a Gyragender, Demiflux, Intersex,

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1 posted on 07/30/2021 3:57:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
I've never been called upon to interact with such freaks but if it were to happen the only pronouns I'd use are “he”...”she”...and “it”.
2 posted on 07/30/2021 4:02:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Kaslin

O could be wrong, but I think that term Non Binary means neither Male or Female. For most of us those are the choices, like Chocolate or Vanilla and that’s it. The selection of the term “ Them” could be that has become the “go to” term to use for those of ambiguous or uncertain sexuality.

Demi is a mixed up, frustrated young woman who sees her career flattening out as she gets old, as she gains weight. She has a naturally chubby body. A hard sell in Hollywood, especially for girls.


3 posted on 07/30/2021 4:27:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell
- Demi is a mixed up, frustrated young woman who sees her career flattening out as she gets old, as she gains weight. -

Maybe she could identify as slender. Think that would help her? /s

4 posted on 07/30/2021 4:37:14 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Kaslin

My 12 year old daughter tried telling me there were way more than just 2 genders now. She even said how a person “identifies themselves determines what gender they were”. I told her I was going to identify as a fir tree for a day. I asked her if that would make me a tree. She said no- that’s stupid, I can’t be a tree because I am not one. :0) I told her I would agree with her argument of more than one gender once she found me a bull she could milk and a rooster she could get eggs from.


5 posted on 07/30/2021 5:25:16 AM PDT by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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To: Kaslin

Someday, the skeleton of a long-dead “transgendered” person will be discovered by somebody or something, by happenstance or through diligent searching with the skeletal evidence revealing only that the person was male or female, and that’s all an investigation would have to go on. I’ll bet it’s already happened. I would hope that it’s not something that law enforcement, the medical profession and the justice system think they’d have to tread lightly around. It is what it is, but more importantly, it ain’t what it ain’t.


6 posted on 07/30/2021 5:27:41 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: MissEdie

Gender is basically how you refer to someone. Sex is biological. I tell people “I can’t possibly remember everyone’s pronouns”


7 posted on 07/30/2021 5:32:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Kaslin

Heterosexual males and females are on the bottom of the intersectional victim totem pole. Claiming one of the 112 genders allows an individual to assert they are a victim of discrimination and deserve sympathy.

ps

Disney should be arrested for child abuse. Quite a few of their child stars end up pretty screwed up.


8 posted on 07/30/2021 5:37:00 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Kaslin

IMO those who claim to be a different gender (sex) than that which born has a mental illness. It is a matter of living in the land of make-believe.


9 posted on 07/30/2021 5:54:55 AM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: Kaslin

There is a sophistry that begins with the observation that since we must access reality through our perceptions, perception itself is the only thing about which we can be truly certain. From there comes the fallacy that perception is the *only* reality, and so everything that someone chooses to believe becomes Truth, “their” Truth.

I think this is the unpinning for all Leftist thought. A practical consequence is the notion that if they could manage to coerce every living soul into adopting some Leftist fantasy, rewrite history to match it, and crush all dissent, it would become a universal, indisputable Truth, and we would finally achieve a harmonious Utopia. Many are willing to inflict boundless suffering and destruction and death to get there. That’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make (for those other than themselves). It’s their Truth, so it must be Real.


10 posted on 07/30/2021 6:01:50 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Kaslin

Stop wasting time trying to figure out what they think they are and stupid terms they’re using today. Just call them what they are - FREAKS.


11 posted on 07/30/2021 6:27:32 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: AppyPappy

Gender and sex used to match up 99.9% of the time until the weirdos took charge of everything.


12 posted on 07/30/2021 7:03:10 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Gay State Conservative

If it is “good” for males to self-identify as females and females to identify as males (or use some other gender “variant”,), why can’t people self-identify as “vaccinated” even if they haven’t had “the jab”?


13 posted on 07/30/2021 7:45:02 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! )
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To: Kaslin

Languages have genders. People have sexes.


14 posted on 07/30/2021 9:34:56 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: Kaslin

The world has gone insane.


15 posted on 07/31/2021 6:11:41 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill )
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To: lee martell

Well, that just leaves us with strawberry.

Maybe it’s me, but I don’t think people love strawberry. Unless it’s in Neapolitan. Smushed together with chocolate and vanilla.

;)


16 posted on 07/31/2021 6:18:11 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill )
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To: proud American in Canada

The “Girl” behind the ice cream counter
is going to be triggered by your Special Order!


17 posted on 07/31/2021 12:50:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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