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Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison by gpm on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:16AM (#14358613)
Debating whether they are male or female seems rather pointless to me, it's a question of definitions.

If they want to be referred to as a she, I don't see that it costs us anything to comply with their desire though... so I do.

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Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison by sctb on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:37AM (#14359487)
You've been posting mostly ideological and/or unsubstantive comments, often to the point of outright trolling. We ban accounts for that, so please stop.
Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison by StevePerkins on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:26AM (#14358708)
> If I told you to call me a King, would you do that?

These other replies miss the mark. It's not that, "calling a commoner a king is inaccurate, whereas a biological male could accurately be called female". Because that just brings you full circle back to arguing over whether biological gender and gender "identity" can be separated.

The more practical answer is that it doesn't hurt anything, and being a dick about it just makes you a dick. If you told me to address you as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, then I might privately harbor some doubts about your mental health. But I'd likely do it just to make you go away, m'lord.

I would not, however, feel bound by any commands to defend The Wall or anything.

Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison by gpm on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:24AM (#14358693)
No, since that implies a certain amount of respect and deference to you over other people that I don't have. But if Tom told me to call him John instead I certainly would...
Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison by hashtagMERKY on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:23AM (#14358683)
That's a bit of a false equivalence, really. There's no good reason why someone should call you King, but Chelsea Manning's gender identity is female, so it makes sense to refer to her as female.
Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison by CaptSpify on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:23AM (#14358687)
No, because being a King would be inaccurate. It is a position with political and social power, which you don't have.