i think your hearts in the right place
transpeople want to be seen and treated as their chosen gender and get distressed if they don't, and it's noble to try to accommodate them. you might be able to out-reason someone, but you cant instil empathy in them if they have none. Whether you think we're wrong in our categorisation of terms like woman, I think you'd concede that yours is a change to what most would have if pressed, and to how people have viewed it for centuries with the odd exception. This doesn't mean we have to keep things as they are, but it does mean that it's not a trivial change they're asking but a change to something fundamental all of us do constantly everyday, which is deduce the the gender of the person we're interacting with if we havent already. And there are plenty of thorny side issues that come with it.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 24 Aug 2021, 13:36,
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