• Flying Squid
    link
    fedilink
    38 months ago

    This sounds very similar to claims that trans people are mistaken. Why do you get to be the arbiter of that?

    • @theherk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      18 months ago

      Absolutely taking the opposite of my meaning. It seems to me you are saying a claim of one’s gender and a claim of one being a season are the same? Please state yes or no if you believe that to be true. If yes, I believe this is the scummy position with which I take issue. If no, then you have simply missed the precise point I’m making. That they aren’t the same. For one is a statement of the fact of one’s gender, and the other a false statement.

      That is why somebody should care if somebody were to state, even if in earnest that they are a season or helicopter or similar. Because in the best case they are mistaken and in the worst case making a mockery of gender identity which I fear, though am not certain, you are doing here.

      • Flying Squid
        link
        fedilink
        28 months ago

        I’m saying it’s not up to me to say what someone else identifies as and it’s common courtesy to address people the way they want to be addressed.

        • @theherk@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          28 months ago

          Periodically a conversation ends with my confidence that I agree with a person but a difference in perspective makes that unclear.