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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by docmars on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:21PM (#40651650)
Do you think that reaction is natural, given the patterns and preferences of most of human society?
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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by not_alexb on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:33PM (#40651796)
This has little to do with human society. Western society, maybe. Plenty of other societies don't assert a distinct binary for gender (which doesn't even exist in sex; intersex people exist at the same rates as people that are red-headed, and you wouldnt call red heads unnatural).

Even if it was "natural" you're making the choice to treat someone like shit. You can backpedal onto what all your peers are doing all you want, but that doesn't change how you as an individual are making another human being, who has done nothing to you, feel

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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by flFlflFl on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:39PM (#40651880)
> intersex people exist at the same rates as people that are red-headed

Not true.

> the choice to treat someone like shit

Telling a man he's a man and that he's not allowed in the women's locker room or whatever isn't treating him like shit, it's treating him like any other man.

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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by docmars on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:46PM (#40651957)
> you wouldnt call red heads unnatural

I'm not aware of anyone trying to alter their own genes to be red-headed, and for those who dye their hair, I don't see them holding parades exposing their genitalia to minors. I also don't see anyone getting fired from their jobs for openly disliking red hair, out of personal preference.

> who has done nothing to you

Not personally, no, but fads widely supported by institutions and corporations have major consequences. Parents are choosing their children's gender and following through with irreversible transition surgery in order to gain status among their peers, politically. This surgery is not only costly, but potentially lethal, given how necessary it is for long-term use of antibiotics and resistances that develop as a result.

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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by fleetingmoments on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:30AM (#40655849)
Classic case of conservatives being deathly afraid of things that only exist in their imaginations.
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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by docmars on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @10:35AM (#40658662)
I'll refer you to this tiny snippet of overwhelming evidence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658653

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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by jmcgough on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @06:01AM (#40656369)
No one is performing surgeries on children. You need to get your news from more fact-based sources.
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