(06-26-2023, 08:18 PM)Ronster Wrote:

(06-26-2023, 08:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: Two spirits.  This accommodates the understanding in some native American communities that some of the people we broadly call queer actually have a male spirit and a female spirit in them, with one sometimes taking prominence over the other, but neither totally dominating their identity.

Wait til they decide their words have to accommodate pacific Islanders too.  On many pacific islands queer males are labeled as a third gender.

Interesting, I don’t care what an adult does, but they just won’t leave the kids alone. Why won’t they just let kids be kids? Why crush and piss all over their innocence with perversion?

Their "pride" won't let them.

Take the "i".  The "i" is for intersex. Intersex is the only one of the letters that actually refers to an anatomical reality.  These are people whose genes, genitals, gonads, are in between or mixed up between normal male and normal female expression.  They literally were born that way.  Choosing a gender isn't optional for them and their families.  They literally have to choose it because their anatomy didn't choose it.  So they definitely deserve some affirmation and understanding from all of us.  But they're also disabled.  No one should want to be like them, anymore than anyone should want to be born without a hand or foot.  There is literally no reason why they should have "pride" about their situation. 

I can totally sign up for the idea that just like there are these anatomical intersex conditions, there are also the mental conditions that correspond to all of the other letters.  And these also that deserve respect and accommodation.  But stop saying you're proud of it! Stop evangelizing it! It is a defect.

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