@ai @MercurialBlack @gav This reminds me of an article I read. A critique of leftist academia where policing language is seen as something that can change the world; rather than language being a descriptor of how we already view the world. This entire debate is reminiscent of that, where I believe that transphobia and transmisia and anti-transgender are all describing the same phenomena, and as such an artificial attempt to change thinking by interchanging these words is fruitless. Meanwhile you and Mercurial are arguing that these words form the basis of the phenomena itself, and that by changing the word we change the view of the world.

I can't find the article unfortunately. You'd like it a lot I think