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the-pi-guy said:

o_O.Q said:

but I thought gender is a social construct?

does that not mean that the perception of being cool and trendy can cause a change in gender?

1.)  Even if that did make any logical sense, it is certainly not what's happening right now.  Being transgender is the opposite of cool.  It's an immense amount of stress, because a lot of people hate people for being transgendered.  

2.)  Even still the latter doesn't follow from the former.  

Gender is a social construct, that doesn't mean a change in the perception of gender would cause people to change their own gender.  

3.)  You still seem to think that people are choosing to be transgender.  No one is doing that.  It doesn't even make any sense.  

o_O.Q said:

you can't seriously be saying that you don't think groups of people ever conspire against other people in secret?

Conspiracies do happen.  

But the people that are so involved in speculating about them, that they call themselves conspiracy theorists are usually lost.  

"Even if that did make any logical sense"

trust me you aren't the only one having difficulty seeing logical consistency

"Being transgender is the opposite of cool.  It's an immense amount of stress, because a lot of people hate people for being transgendered."

and a lot of people see them as validation for their delusional ideas about equality so in some circles they are venerated

"Even still the latter doesn't follow from the former."

how does it not? if something(in this case gender) is constructed out of our social makeup then how does it not follow?

"Gender is a social construct, that doesn't mean a change in the perception of gender would cause people to change their own gender."

if gender is socially constructed then how could our collective perceptions on gender and obviously as a result our interactions also changing not have an impact?

are trying to argue that our perceptions do not impact significantly on the social makeup of a society?

"You still seem to think that people are choosing to be transgender.  No one is doing that."

how do you explain the people who detransition?

"Conspiracies do happen."

which ones?