Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gender-2

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    24 days ago

    Even if they want to believe that there are only two genders that doesn’t mean that someone can’t transition from one to the other. Even under the rules they are so desperate to establish trans people still exist.

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    23 days ago

    My little brother, I’m fairly certain, pioneered this technique in dealing with our racist parents.

    My parents would say something casually awful, about LGBTQ, Black, Latino, or Muslim people and my lil bro would sarcastically, and enthusiastically agree, stringing their point along to the logical conclusion of their hate-centered universe, and watch them get more and more uncomfortable.

    example:

    parents: “Black people are just genetically more violent”

    lil Bro: “Oh yeah, they’re genetically inferior all right, and genes can be altered before birth, so we should treat melanin as a genetic anomaly and edit it entirely out. we should put the rest in cages and make them perform like in a zoo. Everyone who isn’t perfectly milky alabaster white should be shot out of a cannon and into the sun. My freckles are a sin to god and we should cut them out of our bodies ritualistically. My friend Gary is black, let’s go fucking shoot him for it.”

    Parents: 😶

    I had been away for a minute and watched it happen for the first time, and I laughed, applauded, and clapped my bro on the back… So proud of him.

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    24 days ago

    Seems to me the number of genders depends on the culture. If your culture says there are only two genders, then there are two, in that culture. If your culture says there are more than two, then there are more than two, in that culture.

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      23 days ago

      The problem with this argument is that the anti-trans people will just say “our culture only has two” and that will be the end of their argument.

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        anti-trans people will just say “our culture only has two” and that will be the end of their argument.

        It’s just a statement of fact. Some cultures only identify two genders. If you live in such a culture, and you disagree with that aspect of the culture, you have a few choices: try to change that aspect of the culture through advocacy, try to force change somehow, like by using state authority, or leave and join another culture that more closely aligns with your beliefs. I would probably at least try advocacy at first, but it can be a challenge. Some cultures are very resistant to change, especially on matters such as gender.