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You would be surprised. Just because someone claims a particular trans right is a human right, doesn't mean that trans right is even a right, much les...
October 27, 2025 at 17:37
Right, no harm in your words. Yes, I think the matter of whether we should consider human rights at all is a bit off topic. The thread is more focused...
October 27, 2025 at 12:49
They are a social construct solved through reason and practice, not bias or feelings. Whether you value human rights or not, there are clearly defined...
October 27, 2025 at 04:27
And I'm glad to to hear that. I agree that trans gender people should have the right to not be harmed for the way they live their lives, and that we s...
October 27, 2025 at 04:23
Ah, I see what you're saying now. If you'll notice in the OP I take the time to set up all the definitions so that way the reader knows what everythin...
October 27, 2025 at 01:06
Fair enough, I'll believe that you have. But I'm not seeing you provide anything that is countering my criticism either. And I have invited you to go ...
October 26, 2025 at 23:28
I don't see how this addresses the OP or gets the topic back on track. I fail to see how these statements you've made have anything to do with what I'...
October 26, 2025 at 23:22
No, the title, intro, and common saying is 'Trans rights are human rights". Its a a common refrain from trans allies and activists. Here, I even wrote...
October 26, 2025 at 20:12
Beautifully stated.
October 26, 2025 at 18:14
Technically its about human rights, but you are 100% correct that this is off topic. The OP addresses health care as So RougeAI, lets stick to the OP ...
October 26, 2025 at 14:44
My apologies for getting back late to you on this. I am curious about your view points on another thread I started analyzing which trans gender rights...
October 26, 2025 at 13:51
I appreciate you sharing the story. The OP goes through several of them and states whether they can be classified as human rights. Would you like to a...
October 26, 2025 at 03:50
A human right is not a legal right. But our legal rights should support human rights. The purpose of the OP is to ascertain whether the rights that th...
October 26, 2025 at 02:03
This is an example of a thought experiment to give a more explicit example out an abstract notion. If you're not going to take the conversation seriou...
October 26, 2025 at 00:42
Lets pull it out of the abstract and look at your own life. Lets say you stumble upon a person in a lone allyway. They mean you no harm but you notice...
October 25, 2025 at 22:05
Correct. I addressed the idea of medical care as a right in the OP. For this we can detail further. There are two situations in which a person can dec...
October 25, 2025 at 21:58
Then my mistake, I'll try to be more clear next time. .. Generally punishment as an ideal's purpose is to protect innocent people and reform those who...
October 25, 2025 at 21:46
Agreed, no argument against that here. Perhaps others see trans individuals as freaks, from my point its looking at what they are asking for as rights...
October 25, 2025 at 20:47
RogueAI, can we say on topic please? What do you think about the OP's claims on the trans gender rights listed?
October 25, 2025 at 19:52
Fair question. I posted a link in the OP, and TClark posted a link to generally what the transgender community is asking for in terms of rights. I am ...
October 25, 2025 at 19:51
If the rights they are asking for fit in and do not contradict human rights, then yes, they are. But in the OP its clear that some of the things being...
October 25, 2025 at 17:27
You may very well come from an enlightened family where such questions are common. In many families such questions are off limits, yelled at, and disc...
October 25, 2025 at 17:16
Outlander I'm not seeing this as relevant to the OP. I appreciate your contribution, but unless it ties into the OP in some way, this is off topic. Of...
October 25, 2025 at 17:13
I didn't think the site I referenced was claptrap. That being said, I asked for and welcome alternatives. We can discuss nicely. Beyond transgender pa...
October 25, 2025 at 17:10
A little bit of a dive into history can show this. In many totalitarian societies on is not allowed to question the effectiveness of their government....
October 25, 2025 at 15:50
Correct. What I'm espousing is the definition of gender according to modern day gender theory as I understand it. It is fine to disagree with it. This...
October 25, 2025 at 01:33
There are some, but last I looked we truly don't know the full picture. Do we know that sexual orientation is biological? I believe there is more than...
October 24, 2025 at 18:55
No, I'm not implying they are cleanly discernible through observation. I think they require scientific reference to clearly delineate what is biologic...
October 24, 2025 at 17:59
I believe testosterone, sex hormones, and brain structure. This aggression is also focused in certain areas like mate seeking and physical altercation...
October 24, 2025 at 14:33
This is what gender ideology believes. In any modern day conversation about gender and regarding 'trans gender', the definition of sex and gender as w...
October 23, 2025 at 22:15
You cannot persuade a single person to come to a conclusion they do not want to. What you can provide them is an opportunity to come to a conclusion t...
October 23, 2025 at 18:36
Hello again Bob! An interesting take on the gender/sex division issue. I'll analyze it the best I can. Correct. Just adding that the key difference is...
October 23, 2025 at 13:02
To my point earlier, sometimes you encounter incredibly difficult questions with no apparent answers. That's pressure to stop thinking about it. The p...
October 22, 2025 at 19:30
And this is a correct philosophical response. One should always feel free to ask 'Why?" and point out problems with assumptions. Perhaps there are goo...
October 22, 2025 at 11:58
A fair clarification.
October 21, 2025 at 18:13
According to the definition of gender, that's all it really is. Its simply culturally accepted prejudice and/or sexism. Also correct. Because the poin...
October 21, 2025 at 12:37
According to many on the gender side of the discussion, it is correct that there is no boundary line under which gender can be captured. Keep going wi...
October 20, 2025 at 20:43
Agreed. I view gender as socially enforced/acceptable prejudice and sexism. Agreed. I mentioned to another poster here that the game is to get you to ...
October 19, 2025 at 20:12
You as well Bob! I hope life has been treating you well. True. But having been in the community for a while and seeing their desire to cleave it, I'm ...
October 19, 2025 at 00:28
Darkneos, your question has been asked countless times over the years. "Will the calculator make people dumber?" "You can replace 10 accountants with ...
October 18, 2025 at 15:03
Right. Gender comes from and is defined by sex. Sex does not come from nor is defined by gender.
October 18, 2025 at 13:46
And I have never denied that. The argument has been noting that the issue is that the phrase 'trans men are men' implies 'man as sex' and is both gram...
October 17, 2025 at 18:01
There is only one thing that matter in philosophy: The argument. Not who said it. Not credentials. Not the feelings of the person. The argument. If AI...
October 17, 2025 at 04:38
That's not what I said. I said that the idea that because language can evolve a certain way, doesn't mean it should. If English evolved rapidly into a...
October 15, 2025 at 21:08
No, it is not foolish at all. That's the entire point of English class. Present participles, conjuctive disjunctions (What are you functions?) are all...
October 15, 2025 at 20:11
The issue is that man is used both to indicate sex and gender depending on context. In this context its more grammatically sensible to read man as ref...
October 15, 2025 at 20:05
Notice I did not explicitly say "to get people to hold the door for me". If you're being honest when you see a woman vs a man, you do have a different...
October 15, 2025 at 14:02
To be clear, I have nothing against man meaning gender or man meaning sex based on context. My argument is that in the context of 'transgender men are...
October 14, 2025 at 21:48
Correct. I sympathize with this greatly. Does using poor language structures in phrasing fix this? No. It depends. One of the things that people have ...
October 14, 2025 at 18:24
This 'is' a statement that the transgender community insists is true, so I think its a viable thing to look at linguistically. Technically you had to ...
October 14, 2025 at 17:42