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Of course they do. All people with disabilities and medical conditions are considered people worthy of equal respect. That doesn't mean their condition says anything other than that they have a genetic anomaly. If you have an anomaly in your heart it doesn't speak to a larger question about whether there is a 'right' kind of heart. There is a right kind of heart that functions in an ideal way for human thriving and survival. The same is true for gender/sex. It doesn't mean there is ANYTHING wrong with people with heart defects or gender dysphoria. [/quote]

Human beings have two legs! Except for the ones who don't.[/quote]

And no one would/should say anything bad about someone with one leg or some other situation, but they also would acknowledge that two legs is the biologically/evoluntionarily normal human condition.[/quote]

Note the meaningful distinction between "Most human beings have two legs" and "Human beings have two legs".[/quote]

This is where it becomes ridiculous. Anyone who gets offended by someone saying 'human beings have two legs' is being ridiculous. [b]Humans are supposed to have two legs[/b]. There are a multitude of reasons a specific human might not have two legs. Those reasons are all medical conditions based on accidents or genetic anomalies. Do you object to saying 'dogs have four legs'? Some dogs have three legs. But if you go around muddying the waters on everything then you can't say anything at all. When I teach my kid about humans and dogs I say, 'dogs have four legs and humans have two legs' and then you talk about exceptions as they arise or when you talk about handicapped people.

I am a liberal with a transgender cousin who I fully support in living her life they way she wants to live it, but I do not think that she is neurotypical or that her brain works in a way that the human brain is evolutionarily designed to work. [/quote]

Why? What if a human decide that he wants to get rid of one of his/her leg? What is the difference between cutting your leg off and cutting your penis off?[/quote]

People with body dysmorphia exist. The treatment is like that for anorexia, to try and bring them around to reality, or learning how to cope with the fact that their healthy body includes two legs. You can read about some terribly sad stories about what people have done to themselves due to this mental illness.

We treat people who want to be the opposite sex differently for reasons I don't really understand. It seems to me that cutting the leg off of someone who thinks they shouldn't have that leg is just as valid treatment as turning a penis inside out and attempting to craft some sort of vagina-like hole in the body with it. The medical studies indicate this is a treatment for transgender people who feel dysmorphic in their bodies. We have people who think they shouldn't have two arms or two legs who also claim relief after they remove the offending limb, so I'm not sure why they're required to learn to live with their dysmorphia instead of being allowed to have their body altered to suit their beliefs.[/quote]

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