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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by concordDance on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:57AM (#34136591)
Then why the fuss about transgender people? It's all about treating them as a different gender, no-one seems to care about adults getting bottom surgery on their own dime.
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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by tixialu on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:49AM (#34137249)
Mostly because some places - prisons, for example - need to be segregated by sex, and the transactivists want to abolish that.

And because they're also pushing a large-scale redefinition of the terms "woman" and "man", and trying to make it law, which most people don't agree with.

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