They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?

Re:They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? by peterashford on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:01AM (#33606899)

There have been trans people forever. For example - traditional Samoan society has always had non-binary people. These people are not confused nor responding to "political correctness" https://nhm.org/stories/beyond-gender-indigenous-perspective...

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Re:They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? by hobbitstan on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:10AM (#33606950)

That means nothing. There have been mentally ill people forever too. It doesn’t change reality.

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Re:They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? by peterashford on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:21AM (#33607423)

They're not mentally ill. You are a bigot

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Re:They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? by stemforth on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:51AM (#33607664)

I find it interesting that they distinguish between fa'afafine and fa'afatama as descriptions of who fulfils this social role, with the former being male and the latter being female.

That doesn't really map onto the recent idea of 'non-binary', where one's sex is supposed to be entirely ignored, and the idea of someone being a 'non-binary man' or a 'non-binary woman' is generally considered wrong or even offensive to believers of this ideology.

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Re:They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? by peterashford on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:27PM (#33760365)

Indigenous ideas often don't map onto western concepts because they aren't western concepts

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