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Liam Redmond
14 Oct 2016, 14:15
Unintended consequences
Very interesting. So to paraphrase the TV comedy 'Ballot Monkeys', you're asking people to decide on a question, they don't fully understand, that no one knows the answer to.

Both highly the…
bazzalisk
5 Oct 2016, 10:37
Skant-ily clad
Humans like to put things into categories. Things like "Race", "Sex", "Gender", "Sexuality", and even "Species" aren't actual discrete properties, rather they're labels for particular common…
shuripentu
5 Oct 2016, 10:21
Skant-ily clad
Yeah, I think you're attempting to apply far too simplistic a heuristic to an extremely complicated set of topics.

A few thoughts, quickly formed:

- People seem to differ in how strongly they…
nou
4 Oct 2016, 10:18
Skant-ily clad
I think at least part of your confusion stems from thinking there is (or should be) one unified way of looking at the issue, whereas actually different trans people feel differently about it. Some…
johnckirk
4 Oct 2016, 00:58
Skant-ily clad
Looking on the NHS website ( gender dysphoria), they say something similar: "If you want to have genital reconstructive surgery, you'll usually first need to live in your preferred gender identity…