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[quote=Anonymous]If transgender people were just playing dress up like emo and punk people did, it wouldn't be as big an issue. But they're saying their gender expression is also a representation of their sex. As a society, there are certain things we have that are sex segregated - bathrooms/changing facilities and athletics being 2 big ones. Some social groups are sex segregated.

If it were just dress up, or girls and boys being less stereotypically gendered in their dress, I really don't think many people would care. And that's where transgender gets weird. Gender isn't a thing, it's a social construct like race. Sex is a thing. But transsexual isn't the word people want to use, even though it's the area where most of the problems come up ... because saying you're a man because you're taking hormones or surgically modifying yourself to be more physically like a man is like saying you're not a human because you amputated your legs. Of course that's going to get sticky, especially since it starts to have real consequences for other people. Dress like a girl, whatever. Say you're a girl, try out for girl's athletic teams, try for girl focused college scholarships, because you're saying your gender representation is also your sex, and now you're potentially preventing girls from accessing those things. Girls sports aren't segregated because of gender representation. They're segregated because of biological, sex based differences (and years of discrimination and abuse, but that, too, is tied into biological, sex based differences).[/quote]

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