I casually stated on X that Elon Musk’s son is male and not female, and as a result all day weirdos have been bugging me about this.
In Russian.
This lunacy has been exported to all corners of the globe. There’s no linguistic environment where you can hide from busybodies coming to lecture you that a man is a woman because he put on make-up.
Haven’t you noticed that it’s much more than makeup? We’re talking hormones and possibly plastic surgery.
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This guy has put a lot of time, effort, and money into becoming a lizard:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/17/the-lizardman-erik-sprague-book_n_1973311.html
Does that make him a lizard?
Is there a scoring system, where we issue percentiles based on how *much* effort, biochemical, and surgical modification the person has undergone to become something else? Like, if you just change your profile to “lizard”, maybe we can still say you’re a man, but if you do the tongue bifurcation you get to 50% lizard, and we start using the pronoun “ssss” in the subjective when talking about you, but still use “him” in the objective? Tack on full-body tattoos, and we should all acknowledge your total commitment (even if we know you’re not actually a lizard) by playing along?
methylethyl, no matter what that man does, no one looking at him thinks he’s a lizard. But plenty of trans people pass. I’d have to make a mental effort to refer to Vivian with male pronouns because I see a woman.
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If I look at someone and see a cow, should I be able to make steak out of her?
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That’s nice. Was there an applicable principle in there?
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That was roughly what I extracted from it. But I’ve been told by 100 affronted TikTokkers that if I just guess someone’s gender from their appearance, that makes me a bigot. Now it depends on how talented your plastic surgeon was? We can call Rachel Levine “he” because that’s not a very convincing getup?
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