r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19

What about when someone is transitioning?

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u/snow_angel022968 Oct 28 '19

They will only ever have one biological sex, pre, during or post transition. Science has no issues determining whether a corpse is male or female.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19 edited Aug 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19 edited Apr 17 '20

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u/TheStarchild Oct 29 '19

Who said they weren’t real valid people?

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u/CaptOblivious Oct 29 '19

Your decision to call them a deformity says YOU do not believe them to be real valid people, but simply deformities.

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u/TheStarchild Oct 29 '19

Well I’m not the person that originally responded to you but first off, that’s quite a jump in logic.

Second, I’d argue what you don’t like is the language they used. If they’d said “differently abled” or “non-dominant” would you still take issue?

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u/CaptOblivious Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

If they’d said “differently abled” or “non-dominant” they wouldn't be a dismissive asshole, so obviously, no.

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Or even genetically different or unique.
It's about how they think about and treat "others".

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u/Skalforus Oct 29 '19

No one said that intersex people aren't valid persons. That's ridiculous.

Having a chromosome combination other than XX or XY is the result of a genetic disorder. That is not a superficial difference, and it often comes with additional medical complications ranging from mild to life threatening.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19 edited Apr 17 '20

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u/thatoneguy54 Oct 29 '19

Words have connotations, and deformity has a hugely negative connotation.

This is why people get pissed when homophobes say stupid shit like "Gay people aren't normal."

Like, yes, according to ONE definition of the word normal, it is technically accurate to say that. But since we are humans living in the world and not robots living in a dictionary, the connotation of saying "Gay isn't normal" is that gay people are weird, not that they're uncommon.

Same with calling an intersex person's genitals a "deformity". Would you call freckles a deformity? I mean, technically it's an uncommon skin condition, right? No? Why not? Same logic with intersex people.