no one owes you anything because of your identity.
I don't want to argue with you because you're in a position of power, meaning it's an incredibly unfavorable position for me to even attempt. You have an unfair advatange in the form of leverage.
The fact that you think they're entitled for wanting to be respected and regarded with decency in public zones is psychotic.
But because of your own logic I will bite your bait. You don't deserve my respect as the mod when you liken someone's private health condition to a religious belief.
If you're looking to be a moral busybody/impose your beliefs, go elsewhere.
This signifies what I'm talking about. Trans identites have become so politicized that you think being trans is a belief like a religion or a cult rather that an person's private health condition because you don't believe they have a right to something as basic as privacy or respect. I'm not telling you to change because I don't believe that you can. I'm just opening some eyes.
One side cannot simply agree to disagree. They cannot tolerate trans people and openly express their vehement hatred for them without repurcussion. That's what a lack of decorum means.
It's not about being a social justice warrior. I don't expect to be able to change you anymore than you should expect to change a trans person. Identity is immutable. Not sex. Meaning if they're a bratty shitty kid, then they're going to be a bratty shitty adult. You want a definition of a woman? An adult human phenotype correlating to androgenic exposure, reception, and utilization. It's not XY chromosome or XX. Why? Well, why is it God the Father? Why is the holy trinity the Father the son and the holy spirit? Why is the lord's prayer the Our Father? If god was incepted before creation then he wouldn't have chromosomes as he was founded outside the realm of reality. God was considered genderless. It was Christians that decided God was Him. Evolution from Darwin is more accurate than creationism as it accounts for genetic mutation that could contribute to things like people being trans just as it accounts for something like a child having a cleft pallet or type 1 diabetes. That isn't to say that humans can't impact themselves either as they can give themselves type 2 diabetes from poor diet just as they can give themselves lung cancer from smoking. We teach evolution in school because it's respresentative of the realities of the world as opposed to creationism. The people that proclaim basic biology dictates a woman is simply an adult human female is a gross misrepresentation of the realities of evolution as it infantilizes nuance for the sake of palatability.
Obviously the argument can then be made that what you put into your body impacts it. Right? So one side of the aisle thinks transgenderism is ideology akin to a religious cult and believes that they're indoctrinating young people because they are ignorant to the history of trans civil and legal rights. Willfully ignorant. Willfully because they don't think trans people should have them. Willfull because people like yourself liken transgenderism to a religion rather than a health condition and in a secular society you aren't allowed to enforce your religion on other people. That's why it was only ever about tolerance and the main stream push for transgender visibility lost the plot by trying for acceptance. Some people will never be able to accept a trans person's identity. Never. The same as some people will never be able to accept gay people. Phobia's are't simply fears. That's an explain it like I'm five level of simplification. A phobia is an irrationally held belief that isn't founded in rational reality. As an example: arachnephobia. The fear of spiders? It's a bit more nuanced than that. Unless you live in Australia, your average house spider cannot kill you. Sure getting bit by one might suck, but you really have to agitate the ***out of it to get bitten. The people that panic simply lack control over their emotions. You can have arachnephobia and not freak out upon seeing a spider. It's a matter of control. Some people'll just kill the spider. Crisis adverted. They can't resolve their phobia of trans people in the same way that they can squash a bug. That's why we're seeing things become more heated socially with regards to the issue.
One side sees anything to do with trans as the woke liberal mind virus because they can't understand where these people get these ideas from. I can go into the history, but again. No political discussion, right? Well, if trans identities are political, then talking about them should be off the table as well.
It's not illegal to make fun of a person in a wheel chair, but you're an *** if you do so. If you think of a trans person like a person in a wheel chair then it makes more sense. Sure, a trans person might need specific accomodations just like a person in a wheel chair might. The Americans with Disabilities Act entitles them to accomodations (in America). I'm not saying you're not allowed to make fun trans people. You can, but if they punch back then it's your own fault. That's not saying all trans people are good people or angels or whatever because there's always bad apples in every group.
It's not my responsibility to educate you on trans people extensively just as it isn't my job to moderate the forum. You're entitled to your beliefs up until voiding the social contracts of others.
I primarily lurk the board as site traffic would tell you how frequently I visit without posting.
I can't stop them from ***talking trans people. I can report harassment to appropriate authorities and continue accordingly. If they want to sit on their discord server and rag on me all day, I do not care. I do not expect to ever be able to change that. When we're in public zones, mind you p's and q's.
If you want to be heralded as a neutral arbiter, don't chime in with your two cents that exposes your own underlying biases. I didn't ask the peanut gallery for commentary. Don't jade me.