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EmilyBites's avatar

I agree. Unless I'm making a point I don't say 'trans person', man, woman, etc (and absolutely not 'trans child') because to say that is to accept that the concept (gender identity, differently-sexed different bits of the same person) is a real thing. People identify as, or say they are, 'trans', but since no one is trans in the sense that they have a brain of one sex in a cranium of another sex, and everyone is trans in the sense that we don't identify with all sex stereotypes, it's not just a meaningless word but a downright misleading one.

Just because I don't share the belief, though, doesn't mean I'm phobic. I'm also an atheist, but that doesn't automatically mean I'm an islamophobe or an anti-semite. I just don't believe in the principles of the belief system, and similarly I don't agree with gender ideologues about how the world is. We can accept that a Christian *is* a Christian in the sense that they believe they are, but we don't have to believe they actually are an ensouled creation beloved of the Abrahamic deity, whose soul is destined to spend eternity in heaven or hell after they die.

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cara's avatar

there is no such thing as transition. you can redraw the map but it doesn't change the land.

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