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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seemed pretty thoughtful to me that my DC's freshman dorm had name signs on the rooms that included a line for students to express their pronoun preferences. I'll admit to not giving it much thought, but it seemed a very kind thing to do. And I don't think it is possible to ever be too kind.

I am fascinated by how fragile some people are about their own sexuality.  To use a phrase like "transgender craze" is pretty bizarre and indicates some sort of personal threat the writer feels from other people's identities. No one chooses to be trans. I have never wondered if I was born the wrong gender, but I can certainly empathize with how difficult it must be for those that do. Nobody should contemplate suicide because they are transgender, but a large proportion do.

Why would treating a transgender person with dignity and respect, just like everyone else, ever be problematic?  My guess is that those who are so troubled with the mere existence of transgender folks do so because they are so insecure about what it means to be male or female. When your gender identity is about performing a role rather than just being yourself, policing the lines becomes really important to preserving your self image. I guess in some ways its sort of sad and deserves a little sympathy too. But, when it crosses the line to denigrating others and belittling other people's basic needs, my sympathy evaporates. [/quote]

You're stopping at calling them the name and pronouns they prefer though. And if that's where it stopped, I bet very few people would have issues.
It doesn't stop there.

There are biological boys in Connecticut who are competing as girls, in girls HS events. These biological boys are not taking any drugs to minimize male puberty, and because of that are effectively on performance enhancing drugs. Should the biological girls they are competing against take testosterone in order to try to regain the even playing field they had before these biological boys decided that not only did they want to be girls socially, but they wanted to be girls athletically (without reducing their biological advantage)?
There are male bodied predators in California who have harassed homeless women in shelters, and the homeless women have no recourse because CA is following the "self-id" regulation. If the women complain, they are told to not be bigots. Not to be bigots in the face of being sexually threatened. There are trans people offering to help identify who is "real trans" and who isn't, in this case. Which blows my mind, because the shelter is in this predicament because of trans lobbying that self-id is all that's necessary. And people had sympathy for them. And even when some people talked about the what-ifs, and how we could protect vulnerable women, they just get "vulnerable trans! suicide!" thrown in their face. Which does not, in any way, lead to a solution for all the vulnerable populations. And it is, unfortunately, very much the way men try to shout and shut women down constantly.

I can have sympathy for people and it doesn't require I believe everything they do and say is above reproach.[/quote]

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