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That word— disability—shifted this whole muddy mess into crystal clarity. What a fantastic analogy.

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Always such clarity in your voice about this group madness. The party bus looked like it was a blast! ☮️❤️🐾

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Great illustration. Our institutions and the public are being railroaded into believing this nonsense, or having to pretend they do. At what cost to honest debate, women and children?

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My brother was trying to talk sense~ into me the other day and he said “Okay, you don’t believe in gender identity. Fine. For you it’s a philosophical thought experiment; for trans people it’s their *lives*.” No, it is also my life because of the Unreasonable accommodations that are being demanded. When my rights are being infringed upon, it has gone way beyond thought experiment. Thank you for your contributions in language and analogy so I can have more coherent conversations about what’s happening.

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It’s a fetish.

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Correct I'd guess three quarters of them are fetishists the other quarter may be mentally ill but we don't help mentally ill people by conspiring with them in their delusions. As for so called Trans Men....fucking traitors at worst or grooming victims at best.

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This is the bit that always seems to get lost by the TRAs: those 'non-trans' people impacted by accommodations for 'trans' people also have rights. The law doesn't just give someone everything they ask for because they have an entitlement to something. You have the right to privacy, but not to evict your neighbour and live in their house.

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Sorry, but I do NOT think that encouraging a mentally ill person's delusions is healthy for anyone, why should "Trans" people's unscientific imaginings be treated any differently from any other delusional person's? I am also not prepared to be a participant in the fetishes of others or to adhere to their insane political views which are diametrically opposed to my own. The word "disability" is bandied about far too frequently to the detriment of genuinely disabled people. If I was an employer no man in a dress, bad wig and stilettos would even be interviewed, if I was a landlord he wouldn't get up my garden path never mind get over the door step. Female impersonation should not be considered a disability. I will not accomodate my Grandson's belief that he is Batman by opening the bedroom window and let him try to fly, I will certainly not accomodate any AGP by opening any door which might lead him to erroneously believe that anyone actually thinks he is a woman. Fuck the Law ....Bad laws are made to be broken.

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There is no such thing as gender, as feminists we used to use it in describing the stereotypical roles inflicted upon our SEX, but it is not an actual thing that any human has. If Gender does not exist then neither can "Gender Dysphoria" is being sexually confused or having a fetish a disability? What's next Paedophillia a disability? If not, why not? It was an interesting article Exulansic and I do love your work, but I thoughyt you were a Gender Atheist?

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Yes for the purposes of legal disability, either of those things might substantially limit a person in a major area of functioning or life activity and may entitle a person to reasonable accommodations (such as if they randomly develop pedophilia, being relocated to another job within the company away from children). I am a gender atheist. If a person thinks that demons are talking to them through their fillings, and this means they cannot leave their house, I don't have to believe in demons or filling-based telecommunication to recognize that something is going on that is affecting this person's functioning.

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