Transgender politics and social issues

[David]

[stui magpie]

It was only a matter of time.

A 69-year-old entrepreneur in the Netherlands wants to legally change his age to 49 so he can go back to work and meet more women on Tinder, according to his lawsuit.

Emile Ratelband filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government in an attempt to change the birth date on his passport from March 11, 1949, to March 11, 1969, the Dutch publication De Telegraaf reported.

The self-proclaimed positivity guru argued that he feels 20 years younger, and compared the age difference to being transgender, despite the concepts being completely different.

"You can change your name. You can change your gender. Why not your age? Nowhere are you so discriminated against as with your age," he told De Telegraaf.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/dutc ... 49-2018-11

[thesoretoothsayer]

Yep, only a matter of time.
Here's another one.
And if you accept the trans ideology of "I identify as X, so that makes me X" then how can you argue against it?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -was-white

[Skids]

You have to laugh at this pathetic spiral of lunatics demanding attention.
What a joke this world is becoming, sad for my grand kids. The place is going to be totally $@&^# in a few decades.

[David]

Most of us can easily tell the difference between sincere expressions of gender dysphoria and attention-seeking edgelordery. Most of us.

[HAL]

That is something I haven't heard of. But not all of them?

[thesoretoothsayer]

Most of us can easily tell the difference between sincere expressions of gender dysphoria and attention-seeking edgelordery. Most of us.

Mr. Lennon appears to sincerely identify as a black man (even though he is white). Who are you to deny him his lived experience? His "truth"?
Some black people might question his identify but they're probably just racephobes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... mixed-race

[Pies4shaw]

Here's another serious social justice issue. https://www.breitbart.com/social-justic ... on-tinder/

[David]

Most of us can easily tell the difference between sincere expressions of gender dysphoria and attention-seeking edgelordery. Most of us.

Mr. Lennon appears to sincerely identify as a black man (even though he is white). Who are you to deny him his lived experience? His "truth"?
Some black people might question his identify but they're probably just racephobes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... mixed-race

I'm not referring to him, I'm referring to the edgelord in the link that Stui posted. The Lennon case is totally different, and an interesting one if you're into complex questions about what race actually means and how it should be assessed (it has long been asserted that it shouldn't be assessed based on genes and 'percentages', which is why Elizabeth Warren copped so much grief from the left for her Native American DNA test), but also a fairly inconsequential one given how rare it is. You can also look up the Rachel Dolezal affair for a similar scenario that caused far more angst, if you like, and also a controversial journal article about it (which deals with many of the questions in this thread in great detail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_t ... ontroversy

Ultimately, such cases make for interesting debating topics for a philosophy class, but they don't really help us deal with pressing real-world issues around transgender identity and the discrimination, vilification and violence that many transgender people face.

[thesoretoothsayer]

We've all heard about the gay wedding cake stuff but this takes things to a whole new level. Wax my balls bigot!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/38105/tr ... stigiacomo

[think positive]

We've all heard about the gay wedding cake stuff but this takes things to a whole new level. Wax my balls bigot!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/38105/tr ... stigiacomo

what a crock, he will call it off for $2,500 each, looks like he just wants a pay day. they should get some massive hairy sweaty dude in there to wax his bits, call his bluff

[stui magpie]

Here's another serious social justice issue. https://www.breitbart.com/social-justic ... on-tinder/

I posted the same story but from Business insider only a few posts above/

Please try to keep up.

[Pies4shaw]

[David]

[think positive]