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#302 Mar 15 2013 at 8:05 PM Rating: Default
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Rachel wrote:
Uh...?


Etymology defines references, not who has the authority to validate a label or a definition of a word. Many words are used in several ways, not all of those ways are recognized as true meanings.

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Same reason i'm upset with what gbaji said. Same reason i'm upset when someone is called a "*******". Because it very quickly tells me that you don't accept trans people for who they are.


On the contrary. I fully accept a "*******" as a male. 'Tis you who don't accept trans people for who they are by labeling them something that they are not.
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Beyond the first first beat of surprise the first time I ever noticed one, I've always been comfortable with TG females, and lesbians in public bathrooms with me. Even before I consciously figured out I was bi. (My friends and classmates in school thought I was bi long before I did. Go figure.) Because without exception, the TG females and the lesbians behaved just like "normal" straight women when they were in public bathrooms. They adhered to public bathroom etiquette. They didn't look me in the eye. They didn't furtively check me out that I ever caught. They didn't have their shoulders or feet facing me at any time. They gave me my invisible privacy bubble, and stuck in their invisible privacy bubble. All was well. Later, when I hit the ***** dance clubs, I noticed that lesbians would behave in a much different manner in the bathroom than out in the club. In the bathroom I was never checked out or hit on. Outside the bathroom I was checked out and hit on a lot.
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Rachel wrote:
Uh...?


Etymology defines references, not who has the authority to validate a label or a definition of a word. Many words are used in several ways, not all of those ways are recognized as true meanings.

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Same reason i'm upset with what gbaji said. Same reason i'm upset when someone is called a "*******". Because it very quickly tells me that you don't accept trans people for who they are.


On the contrary. I fully accept a "*******" as a male. 'Tis you who don't accept trans people for who they are by labeling them something that they are not.
So you're a rude person that no intelligent female would want to pick up.
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A world that accepts me for who i am.
Someone who contemplates whether they want to live on this world based on some text on a computer screen? Good luck with that.
It's easy to ignore an idiot being an idiot on the internet when you don't face the same **** in the real world.
#306 Mar 15 2013 at 8:17 PM Rating: Good
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Depends how thin your skin is, I guess.
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#307 Mar 15 2013 at 8:26 PM Rating: Good
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When a lot of people think it's ok to beat up a TG or homosexual to a pulp, even up to hospitalization, brain damage or death, it's not just a matter of thin skins. Society needs to change more than the boundary skills of TGs and ****** while this stuff is still going on.
#308 Mar 15 2013 at 8:34 PM Rating: Decent
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Yes, and I'm sure all that will change when we pass laws and put cops in front of shitholes to enforce those laws and we'll live hand in hand and rainbows and unicorns and everything, but that really wasn't the subtopic.
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#309 Mar 15 2013 at 8:44 PM Rating: Default
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Arip wrote:
So you're a rude person that no intelligent female would want to pick up.

I prefer not to be with a female who doesn't know the difference between a male and a female. That doesn't express the level of intelligence that I would want to converse with.

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When a lot of people think it's ok to beat up a TG or homosexual to a pulp, even up to hospitalization, brain damage or death, it's not just a matter of thin skins. Society needs to change more than the boundary skills of TGs and ****** while this stuff is still going on.


You mean like nerds, goths, fat people, skinny people, tiny people, popular people, attractive girls, promiscuous girls, ethnic origins, religious preferences, women in general, etc?
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Almalieque wrote:
Arip wrote:
So you're a rude person that no intelligent female would want to pick up.

I prefer not to be with a female who doesn't know the difference between a male and a female. That doesn't express the level of intelligence that I would want to converse with.

Well I am bisexual, so you have a fair point there. You're still rude and uncouth and undesirable.

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When a lot of people think it's ok to beat up a TG or homosexual to a pulp, even up to hospitalization, brain damage or death, it's not just a matter of thin skins. Society needs to change more than the boundary skills of TGs and ****** while this stuff is still going on.


You mean like nerds, goths, fat people, skinny people, tiny people, popular people, attractive girls, promiscuous girls, ethnic origins, religious preferences, women in general, etc?
Yes, it's not ok to beat up those "different from me" people either. Society needs to change when that's still going on. These people don't need to get thicker skins and put up with it either. At least four of those groups of people have had laws and court procedures extensively changed and enforced, just for them, to adjust society in general's treatment of them.
#311 Mar 15 2013 at 8:56 PM Rating: Good
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Aripyanfar wrote:
These people don't need to get thicker skins
Apparently it was too hard to follow the conversation, but I was telling Rachel9 to get thicker skin when reading internet forums.
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At least four of those groups of people have had laws and court procedures extensively changed and enforced, just for them, to adjust society in general's treatment of them.
And those four groups now enjoy unquestioning acceptance.

Edited, Mar 15th 2013 11:02pm by lolgaxe
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lolgaxe wrote:
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These people don't need to get thicker skins
Apparently it was too hard to follow the conversation, but I was telling Rachel9 to get thicker skin when reading internet forums.
My mistake. It is indeed VERY important to have either a rhino-hide skin, or a really good coping mechanism, when interacting on internet forums, especially The Asylum. But Rachel's point about the extreme trash she puts up with in public, and that it is neither just nor fair that she do so, is also a valid point. Public civility is and should be held to a higher standard than most internet forums.
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At least four of those groups of people have had laws and court procedures extensively changed and enforced, just for them, to adjust society in general's treatment of them.
And those four groups now enjoy unquestioning acceptance.
I'm not sure if you're being intentionally ironic or sarcastic here. While those four groups I'm talking about are still not as enfranchised as male white men, their lot in society has undeniably improved out of sight. Legal protections that counter old social rules have worked to a great extent as intended, even if not to an ideal extent.
#313 Mar 15 2013 at 9:57 PM Rating: Default
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But Rachel's point about the extreme trash she puts up with in public, and that it is neither just nor fair that she do so, is also a valid point.
Equality means I have to treat everyone equally, not that I have to love them or coddle them. I find anyone that even hints at suicide to be trash.
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I'm not sure if you're being intentionally ironic or sarcastic here.
Sardonic if anything.
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#314 Mar 16 2013 at 4:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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A quick browse through the WHO site didn't reveal anything immediately saying "Males who want to call themselves girls are really girls" in their main "Gender & Genetics" section and I wasn't up for browsing all 2,000+ hits on the word "transgender".

You can find the terminology in the GID section of ICD

Ok, then. I looked at the ICD-10 Classification of Mental & Behavioural Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria for Research and category F64 defines transexualism as a mental disorder marked by a desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. In F64.2 (GID in children), it states that in females it is marked by an insistence that "she is a boy" or in males that "he is a girl" (emphasis mine). The online version of the ICD-10 off the WHO's site offers an abbreviated form of the same information.

I don't think that 'a mental disorder in which a male insists that he is a girl' is the same thing as "The WHO says he's really a girl" but that's just my take on it.

Edit: Here is the entire GID section from the work cited above:
F64 GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS

F64.0 Transsexualism
A. Desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by the wish to make one's body as congruent as possible with one's preferred sex through surgery and hormonal treatment.
B. Presence of the transsexual identity for at least two years persistently.
C. Not a symptom of another mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, or associated with chromosome abnormality.

F64.1 Dual-role transvestism
A. Wearing clothes of the opposite sex in order to experience temporarily membership of the opposite sex.
B. Absence of any sexual motivation for the cross-dressing.
C. Absence of any desire to change permanently into the opposite sex.

F64.2 Gender identity disorder of childhood
For females:
A. Persistent and intense distress about being a girl, and a stated desire to be a boy (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages from being a boy), or insistence that she is a boy.
B. Either (1) or (2):
(1) Persistent marked aversion to normative feminine clothing and insistence on wearing stereotypical masculine clothing, e.g. boys' underwear and other accessories.
(2) Persistent repudiation of female anatomic structures, as evidenced by at least one of the following:
(a) an assertion that she has, or will grow, a *****
(b) rejection of urinating in a sitting position
(c) assertion that she does not want to grow breasts or menstruate
C. The girl has not yet reached puberty.
D. The disorder must have been present for at least six months.

For males:
A. Persistent and intense distress about being a boy and an intense desire to be a girl or, more rarely, insistence that he is a girl.
B. Either (1) or (2):
(1) Preoccupation with female stereotypical activities, as shown by a preference for either cross-dressing or simulating female attire, or by an intense desire to participate in the games and pastimes of girls and rejection of male stereotypic toys, games and activities.
(2) Persistent repudiation of male anatomic structures, as indicated by at least one of the following repeated assertions:
(a) that he will grow up to become a woman (not merely in role)
(b) that his ***** or testes are disgusting or will disappear
(c) that it would be better not to have a ***** or testes.
C. The boy has not yet reached puberty.
D. The disorder must have been present for at least six months.

F64.8 Other gender identity disorders

F64.9 Gender identity disorder, unspecified


Edited, Mar 16th 2013 7:08am by Jophiel
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#315 Mar 16 2013 at 5:29 AM Rating: Default
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Arip wrote:
Yes, it's not ok to beat up those "different from me" people either. Society needs to change when that's still going on.


I don't deny the quoted part at all; however, self-respect plays a major part in how those people see you. I always got made fun of for taking advanced and honors courses in school. I countered by making fun of them for willingly wanting to be stupid. That isn't necessarily the best solution, but you can't allow people to punk you either. No matter who you are, how successful you are, people will hate on you and do and say things to put you down.

This isn't taking away from the extreme prejudice, but at the same time, it doesn't make them unique either.
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Psychiatry is very firm about when there is NOT a mental illness. It acceptes that humans are a very diverse species. If a person has aberrant behaviour or thoughts, that is, behaviour or thoughts that are far outside the norm, but they are content with their aberrance, and they are not harming anyone by their aberrances, and they are not harming themselves with it, then no mental disorder exists.

The person is to be treated as a sane adult and their behaviour accommodated within society.
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If a person has aberrant behaviour or thoughts, that is, behaviour or thoughts that are far outside the norm, but they are content with their aberrance, and they are not harming anyone by their aberrances, and they are not harming themselves with it, then no mental disorder exists.

That's contraindicated by the definition given in the ICD which is the text I was steered to as the authority regarding these matters.

I didn't attempt to show that it was a mental disorder, I just asked about the clinical accuracy of calling a boy who thinks he's a girl a girl or "she". I was directed to the WHO and then to the GID section of the ICD as the authority on who makes these determinations. Said text clearly marks transsexualism as a mental disorder and uses the person's "biological" status as the basis for their pronouns versus their imagined status.


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#318 Mar 16 2013 at 7:09 AM Rating: Default
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Beside being false, I don't follow the connection of what you wrote to what I said. I never mentioned or hinted mental illnesses.
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Beside being false, I don't follow the connection of what you wrote to what I said. I never mentioned or hinted mental illnesses.

Ari was upset about me using the term "mental disorder" which was quoted from the ICD.
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I don't think that 'a mental disorder in which a male insists that he is a girl' is the same thing as "The WHO says he's really a girl" but that's just my take on it.

There's a "terminology for clinicians" section, but again, I'm still struggling to see the point of the argument? Is your point that most people would call a female identified boy in a dress a "boy in a dress"? Stipulated. If your point is what that person would be referred to by a case worker in a clinical setting, and what the recommended terminology is after a diagnosis has been made, you're wrong.

I still don't know what you think this has to do with bathrooms, and it still harkens back to "look it says in the law "marriage requires a man and a woman" type arguments.
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There's a "terminology for clinicians" section, but again, I'm still struggling to see the point of the argument?

Really?

Well, I could explain it but it's not even really important. The simple question is who is setting the standards for this. Especially when others in the thread are espousing it as rock-solid gospel. You don't have to like or understand the "point" of the question. I've already chased several leads on this now that all brought me back to "there's no clinical authority for defining a boy in a dress as a girl*" so unless someone has an actual cite (chapter, verse, quote) I guess I'm considering the point settled. Edit: A quick word find through the entire ICD-10 for "Gender Identity Disorder" did not turn up anything more substantive than what I previously quoted.

*Whatever the social implications are or even whether you want to go along with someone isn't particularly relevant. I'm referring to the repeated assertions that a male who thinks of himself as a girl is, in fact, a girl and opinions to the contrary are clinically wrong.


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I find anyone that even hints at suicide to be trash.


This would strike me as a very silly position to hold.
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Well, I could explain it but it's not even really important. The simple question is who is setting the standards for this. Especially when others in the thread are espousing it as rock-solid gospel. You don't have to like or understand the "point" of the question. I've already chased several leads on this now that all brought me back to "there's no clinical authority for defining a boy in a dress as a girl*" so unless someone has an actual cite (chapter, verse, quote) I guess I'm considering the point settled. Edit: A quick word find through the entire ICD-10 for "Gender Identity Disorder" did not turn up anything more substantive than what I previously quoted.

I don't have a copy in front of me. It may be an appendix. I've lost interest though. You have Wikipedia, you know as much as anyone could about this subject, you win the internet debate. I was mistaken. There's no appropriate terminology in a clinical setting, and to be accurate terms that are actively hurtful should definitely be used to refer to people because it's vitally important that we measure their gender correctly in scientific terms, no matter how harmful to them. I guess?
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You have Wikipedia

Why would I need Wikipedia when I have the authoritative word of the WHO and the ICD?

Maybe it's written in the copyright notice though. I didn't think to check within the copyright notice. Or maybe the copyright notice on Wikipedia has it.
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Why would I need Wikipedia when I have the authoritative word of the WHO and the ICD?

Maybe it's written in the copyright notice though. I didn't think to check within the copyright notice. Or maybe the copyright notice on Wikipedia has it.


Really. I concede the point. You were correct and I was mistaken. I'm not sure what you gained, but it's not critically important to me. If I happen upon what I was thinking of I'll let you know. No qualifications. I was wrong and your dedicated researching demonstrated that. Why it's important, I'm not sure, but I have nothing at hand to indicate I was anything but entirely incorrect.
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I'm not sure what you gained

Not a thing. If someone's going to call me a hateful bigot (not you, you just jumped in on it), I think I deserve to question it without it being about whether I "win" or "lose".
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