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Majora on 05 September 2024
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the-pi-guy said:
Majora said:

Where? In the United Kingdom, where I live. 

People are getting arrested/fined in the UK? 

How does JK Rowling even get to walk around then?

Majora said:

Don’t be disingenuous. You know perfectly well the hysteria that ensues regarding “misgendering”. If you’re going to pretend you don’t, then I don’t have anything more to add to you.

People getting called out, isn't remotely the same thing as the government arresting people. 

Majora said:

Also, once again the hysteria. Immediately we jump to a suicide scenario. I’ll make it clear: I do not think it is kind to pander to people’s delusions. Yes, I regard it as thus. Gender dysphoria is indeed a real condition and should be treated and the people treated with respect and care. A person who isn’t gender dysphoric and is a man who wants to be called she/they/xir or whatever else, no, that doesn’t warrant respect. 

Yeah because it rarely ever happens. 

More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide

Majora said:

If your personal identity is so fragile that it needs to be validated by every person in the outside world, you have far bigger problems than being misgendered. 

I'm pretty sure that people who are hysterical about "pandering to people's delusions" also have much bigger problems, yet here we are. 

Trans people make up a very small portion of the population, people who are pushy about neo-pronouns are even much smaller.

Yes, people have been arrested in the UK for misgendering or saying a man is not a woman. Mock this all you like as though I’m a liar or a fantasist, but it’s true. Your Rowling comment was pointless. 

You’re extremely disingenuous and dishonest. I’ll say it once again so you may perhaps understand. You said “I'm pretty sure that people who are hysterical about "pandering to people's delusions" also have much bigger problems, yet here we are.” Again, let me repeat the problem so you may understand - it wouldn’t be a problem at all IF people didn’t INSIST and COMPEL people to use the fucking pronouns. I wish I never had to hear about any of it, and let those people alone and everyone else could be left alone. But it is the COMPULSION coupled with threat and legal action that makes this so egregious. I don’t expect you to agree, neither one of us will ever agree with the other, however perhaps you now can stop dancing around why people are fed up. We don’t care about their pronouns or how they live their lives; we care that there are attempts to force us to pander to their whims and eccentricities.