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   GNU/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 12:53:22 JST GNU/r000t

   The only people who object to gatekeeping are the ones the gate was meant to keep out.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 12:53:22 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I think this could apply to troons in a way that you wouldn't like.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 12:59:09 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I disagree with the premise that you can just "be" another "gender" but otoh I wasn't trying to trigger you, I was js.
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     GNU/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 12:59:10 JST GNU/r000t

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     Let's hear it.

     For anybody happening across this post: I think if you're happier as some other gender, you should absolutely be allowed to express yourself as that gender. I do *not* believe that doing so automatically makes you right in all topics forever and ever and any who disagrees with you is a terrible awful rotten person.

     And if that angers anybody, I would remind them that my le epic goth hacker trap gf passes better than you because she's like 5'3" and also largely shares the sentiment I posted above.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 13:11:11 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I think your example is contrived tbh, and I honestly think theres only one group that really goes way beyond even shutting down discussion about these issues. Not to say it's ppl you know, but it's true.
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     GNU/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 13:11:13 JST GNU/r000t

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     On a complete, all encompassing level? Of course not.

     But human interaction, and human psychology, is all about abstraction.

     Whether or not someone can, for example, bear children, doesn't enter into the overwhelming majority of interactions with people. Take older cis women for example. Do you know whether she's menopausal or not? You probably don't, because that data isn't necessary to carry out the interaction. It's abstracted away from you.

     Same thing with trans people. Unless and until y'all are planning to fuck, the mechanics are entirely abstracted away from you. Everything else is window dressing, and if they want to change out the shades, who gives a fuck?

     But again, that also doesn't give them the right to shut down any discussion on any topic whatsoever, and maybe it's a little weird to push other people into changing their window dressing.