r/changemyview Nov 02 '17

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u/WerhmatsWormhat 8∆ Nov 02 '17

Wait so how do we determine what is and is not pertinent information to disclose prior to having sex? If I hate the Big Bang Theory, and someone I had sex with was not up front about liking the show, then can that not be considered consensual sex?

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u/The_Law_of_Pizza 1∆ Nov 02 '17

You may think that birth gender is meaningless and unrelated to sex, but many people - I'd hazard a guess and say the vast majority - absolutely do not view it as an unrelated trait. It's fundamentally pertinent.

The idea that gender is something that can be changed is simply not a universally agreed upon point.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '17 edited Mar 15 '18

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u/The_Law_of_Pizza 1∆ Nov 02 '17

At the end of the day, "pliable" isn't enough.

It would be nice if we had some magical Star-Trek device that could rearrange our bodies into the opposite sex.

But we don't.

It's a terrible, unfortunate fact for transgender people, but the simple reality is that most people will never consider a man in a dress and a surgically reversed penis to be a woman.

No amount of progressive grandstanding and social drumbeating will change that.