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How do you define what makes a person a man? That's the unstated assumption all of your statements are based upon, and it isn't exactly clear what that basis is. Is it genetics, birth assignment, primary sexual characteristics, secondary sexual characteristics, mental compositon, or something else?
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How do you define what makes a thumb a thumb? It is what it is. If you cut it off and sew it onto your forehead, it does not become a surgically modified forehead apparatus; it is still a thumb. And it is sticking out of your forehead. And just because the majority of society does not accept this as normal does not mean they have hateful or even harmful views.
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If a person feels female in that person's mind, has a body that is in appearance and function female, is legally and socially female, is treated by others as female, doesn't it make more sense to refer to that person as a female and not a male?
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How a person feels about themselves does not define their gender. I wish I was a midget. But cutting off my legs won't make me into one. No matter what I tell myself. ("From the moment he was born...he always thought he should have been shorter. Finally, at age 71, he decided to take matters into his own hands... ") It will just make me a confused man who decided to have his legs cut off.
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You are factually wrong here. It is not a matter of opinion or interpretation, you are just factually absolutely wrong.
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You are factually wrong here. It absolutely IS a matter of opinion and interpretation. Which is why we are having this discussion. Or did you write the book?
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She didn't. She went through it on a surgeon's table, most likely in Bankok, Thailand, far, far away from the kids.
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Semantics.