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« on: June 27, 2021, 05:41:17 PM » |
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It's always seemed odd to me that transgender rights get lumped in with gay rights given that one is a matter of one's own gender identity and the other a matter of orientation in sexual/romantic attraction to other people. It ends up just being a grab bag of "everyone who is 'different' somehow."
There is also a tension that will probably surface more as time goes on with the more extreme and militant elements of the trans community that wish to go beyond nondiscrimination and argue that there is no difference between a transwoman and a ciswoman or between a transman and a cisman.
Once you go with that line of argument, you start arguing that biology and genitals are immaterial to sexual identity or sexual attraction. You end up telling a gay man that if he refuses to date and have sex with a transman who has female genitalia, then he is a hateful irredeemable bigot. You end up suggesting that a lesbian woman who does not conform 100% to typical gender roles (doesn't wear makeup, sometimes shops in the men's section) is not really a lesbian but is simply a transman who is either afraid to come out or in denial.
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