• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This sounds very similar to claims that trans people are mistaken. Why do you get to be the arbiter of that?

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      6 months ago

      Absolutely taking the opposite of my meaning. It seems to me you are saying a claim of one’s gender and a claim of one being a season are the same? Please state yes or no if you believe that to be true. If yes, I believe this is the scummy position with which I take issue. If no, then you have simply missed the precise point I’m making. That they aren’t the same. For one is a statement of the fact of one’s gender, and the other a false statement.

      That is why somebody should care if somebody were to state, even if in earnest that they are a season or helicopter or similar. Because in the best case they are mistaken and in the worst case making a mockery of gender identity which I fear, though am not certain, you are doing here.

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        6 months ago

        I’m saying it’s not up to me to say what someone else identifies as and it’s common courtesy to address people the way they want to be addressed.

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          6 months ago

          Periodically a conversation ends with my confidence that I agree with a person but a difference in perspective makes that unclear.