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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s some kind of tortured reasoning. They are just being bullies.  It’s acceptable to harass transgender people and so now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.

I simply don’t understand how anyone can be so cruel.  There’s not a lot of acceptance of being transgender as it is and it’s gratuitous to keep piling on. [/quote]

Replace "transgender" with "black" and step back 70 years and nothing would have changed.

There are so many people on this forum who would be dumping milkshakes on sit-in protestors and cheering the dogs and fire hoses if they had been born in the 1930s.

They'll try to tell you "oh no, I'd be all for civil rights if I was around back then, but this trans thing is [i]different![/i]"

It's not, and they wouldn't, but it's what they have to tell themselves to believe they're good people despite their bigoted beliefs.  [/quote]

No it’s not. Stop comparing your imaginary oppression to to the heinous discrimination faced by black people. Trans people have full civil rights under the law, and this absurd analogy is highly offensive. [/quote]

Good lord, nobody is saying trans people literally have the same or worse oppression as black people did under Jim Crow. Talk about "imaginary oppression!"

The analogy is simply that like civil rights, this is an issue where people currently believe their bigotry is normal but in time will be looked at as decidedly the wrong side of history.  [/quote]

Funny.  I think history will look back on this period and think.... "What the hell?  A man can [b]claim to be woman[/b] and compete with them in sports and use the locker rooms designated for women?"[/quote]

"Claim to be a woman." You make the experience of a trans-person sound so frivolous. Like they're just making shit up so they can get kicked around extra hard by the world. [/quote]

Doesn't "identify" as a woman pretty much mean the same thing as "claim to be" a woman?[/quote]

Not really. "Claim to be" has connotations of dishonesty. [/quote]

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