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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by Karawebnetwork on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:51PM (#33887594)
My point is that they share a source and are siblings, but one is not the parent of the other. Being transgender is not about the medical or social transition, it is about how the person identifies.
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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by zozbot234 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:03PM (#33887764)
> it is about how the person identifies.

What does it mean to "identify" with a claim about what society is like - namely that "binary" gender might be more of a spectrum, with weird liminal stages in-between? You've said that this is what "non-binary" is about. How does this even begin to square with all those other notions about gender identity being something exceedingly clearcut, that someone can base major life decisions on?

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