@JamieWhistle@flySEA GENUINEQUESTION: what is the issue here when nearby single sex loos are sign posted? How can this possibly be problematic even as a gender critical person?
@MockKing_J @SVPhillimore If your 'evolutionary instinct' were as infallible as you claim, trans people would never be able to live 'stealth' in society. The fact that they do proves that humans respond to physical presentation, not an invisible 'essence.
@MockKing_J @SVPhillimore Evolution didn't give us 'DNA vision' or 'bone-density scanners'; it gave us pattern recognition. We categorize people based on secondary sex characteristics like hormones, fat distribution, and soft tissue, all of which are fundamentally altered by medical transition...
that medical transition can and does align a person’s physical phenotype with their gender identity. If your theory of gender requires you to ignore the evidence of your own eyes, it’s no longer an observation of reality.
First the argument was that she only 'passes' because of the pouting and the bikini. Now that the physical reality is undeniable, the argument has shifted to 'it’s the cheekbones' and 'it's photoshop.' This is moving the goalposts. It suggests a total refusal to acknowledge...
@MockKing_J @SVPhillimore that medical transition can and does align a person’s physical phenotype with their gender identity. If your theory of gender requires you to ignore the evidence of your own eyes, it’s no longer an observation of reality.
@MockKing_J @SVPhillimore First the argument was that she only 'passes' because of the pouting and the bikini. Now that the physical reality is undeniable, the argument has shifted to 'it’s the cheekbones' and 'it's photoshop.' This is moving the goalposts. It suggests a total refusal to acknowledge...
@SVPhillimore You are mocking the standard of beauty to avoid engaging with the actual point: that for all practical, social, and visual intents and purposes, this person lives and exists in the world as a woman.
@SVPhillimore This is a straw man argument. No one is saying that being a woman is defined by 'pouting on a beach.' The point of showing a woman like Valentina Sampaio is to demonstrate that medical transition creates a physical reality that is indistinguishable from any other woman...
@JohnJamesNI@wesstreeting I was a gay teen once, growing up in a very hostile environment for people like me. Never once did I think it would be easier if I was trans. Also if you think fem gays are all now identifying as trans, have a walk down Old Compton St on a Friday night.
@MForstater ... me believe i was trans. The answer is none. It would be impossible. Just as nothing could change our sexuality. We have to tailor our laws and principles around the society we have to give everyone a chance. The world just does not exist as Maya would like it to.
@MForstater ... prosperous lives since transition, and those who lived in the closet for so long in the belief that there was therapy or some other way of 'fixing' themselves to be happy in their birth sex. Those of us who are not trans need to ask themselves, how much therapy would make...