If a small group of delusional people and their disciples are able to force society to pretend that men can become women and mothers or vice versa, if they are able to force citizens to participate in this fiction by forcing them to use opposite-sex pronouns when referring to gender-dysphoric persons, we will no longer live in a free society but under tyranny.
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No one is forcing you to. Being judged as an insensitive shitbag if you don't is not 'forcing'. You are free to misgender transgender folks, and I am free to think you're an awful person for doing it.
Although: misgendering is a conscious choice; being disgusted by you is an instinct. Thus, you have no one to blame but yourself.
But if someone feels wrong as one sex, and feels unable to continue to live a lie, it would really be tyranny to force that person to stick with the birth sex. Now come on, don't be a drama queen about something so trivial as that "tyranny" of having to change the gender of the pronoun you use. Big fucking deal.
Laurie Higgins: "'Their brains were gendered opposite from the rest of their bodies'???? That would mean the difference lies UNDERNEATH *what meets the eye*! You can't trust what you see!! That's similar to driving IN A WORLD where any given traffic sign doesn't mean the same everywhere, but it LOOKS the same everywhere!!"
Kim Il-Davis. The fundie couple in Northern Ireland who lost their appeal.
We already have , and you just lost the right to persecute LGBT people.
But then, how is no longer having the legal right to be tyrannical to certain people tyranny ?
Who's forcing you? You can call people what you want. I could go around calling everyone "sifu Hotman" and they can't stop me. They can, however, think whatever they want of me in return. That's how freedom works.
Men can't become women and mothers. People who are born with a female brain and a male body can alter their bodies to mirror their brains.
How are YOU forced to participate in others living their lives their way? Having to call a person Jim instead of Jane, and him instead of her is such a hardship to YOU? Forcing people to lead miserable lives just so YOU don't have to worry your feeble little mind about it, is also not a free society but a tyranny.
It's fiction to you, because you have never experienced it. It's not fiction to the people born with this dysphoria.
Christians are able to force citizens to participate in their fiction...
Laurie there is a group of people who want us to live under their rule. A rule in which homosexuality is punishable by death. Where, at best, Pagans and atheists are second class citizens (if even that). Now that is tyranny. Oh I see you don't agree that's tyranny? Well that's funny because I'd think you would say Daesh AKA ISIS was a tyrannical group. Seems the tyrannical one is you. Your free society is a tyranny for those not like you
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