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Personally, I'll stick with M or F.
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Everything else is just socio-conceptual non-sense.
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First, we're conflating sex and gender. Biological sex is what you're assigned at birth and indeed it's very much that case that this tends to remain constant throughout humanity - most cultures have some conception of male and female. However, gender isn't constant - looking at something like the Navajo people [1] tends to show up different conclusions with regard to gender - and the understanding of gender most sociologists have is that it's the social and societal expectation that we lay on individuals because of their biological sex - the idea of masculinity is predicated upon male or female sex organs. Because this idea differs from population to population, the only thing that we can conclude is that gender is a socially and societally constructed thing.
Second, we're making the mistake of thinking it's easy to come out and be accepted as transgender - it is indeed not at all like changing hair colour. It's a process that is very difficult for most individuals.
Now that we've dealt with these misfounded assumptions, let's deal with the key subject of this - the legal structure of T and Q within society. First off, the ideal of Q is very much different to T - Q tends to refer to those who don't feel themselves to fit into the other categories and therefore categorise themselves as a more general grouping. Consider that all legislation intended to benefit transgender individuals will benefit a tiny minority of the population (less than 0.1% in most countries) whilst not affecting others at all. Consider the example of putting down "X" for your gender on a passport - there won't be any adverse affects at all to a huge majority while positively affecting a tiny minority. This is known as a pareto improvement (in social choice theory, a fascinating field I highly recommend you read into if you're interested).
With more specific cases they'd have to be handled on a case by case basis but the rationale presented on the part of Neg is weak.
1.)https://othersociologist.com/2013/09/09/two-spirit-people/
(note: some more radical than me would argue that sex is a social construct due to some rather interesting linguistic arguments but I'm not sure I buy them)
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Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by regarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically.
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It would be like a hetero being grouped with cuckolds. They're different animals altogether.
IMO, there should be no definition of any laws made. All laws apply equally to everybody, period.
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>It would be like a hetero being grouped with cuckolds. They're different animals altogether
if I'm honest I don't buy this appeal to "rationality". Grouping really doesn't come into it at all and this odd focus on "heteros" is a bit strange and doesn't help your argument a whole lot.
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As far as my focus on heteros, I support the hetero agenda.
#HeteroPride.
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