I have no problem with trans coming up with their own language to describe themselves, in fact, yea, I encourage them to, rather than obscuring existing language, like they’re doing with man and woman.
I think you’re stretching it.
Money, language and so on are partly rooted in subjective things like human cognition, shared narratives and so on, but entirely?
When, whatever you want to call them, social constructs are used affectively, they help put us more in tune with both ourselves, and nature, with both our needs, and how to satisfy them, but when they’re used ineffectively, as is the case with trans, they obscure them.
I’m making an inference, I’m using what I’m sure of, to make a reasonable assumption about what I’m less sure of.
We all make thousands of inferences a day, and while they’re not as good as statistical research (or direct personal observations for that matter) when conducted properly, often they’re all we have to go on.
There may be no statistical research on how hermaphrodite gorillas behave in washrooms, but I’d still keep my distance from them.
I’m aware of that.
But did most civilizations throughout history refer to and mostly think of trans as the opposite sex, or did they invent new linguistic and conceptual categories for them?
Just because sex isn’t wholly black and white, doesn’t mean it’s an amorphous blob either.
I’m trying to be fair, I’m acknowledging that men and women can have physical, neurological and psychological secondary sex characteristics that don’t align with their genitals and chromosomes, while also acknowledging that men and women can’t be wholly one sex living in the opposite sex, which’s a widespread misconception held both by many people within, and outside the trans community.
I think you underestimate premodern man.
They knew enough to know peoples psychological sex mostly aligned with their physical.
I think often scientists get too mired in microscopic details, and progressives in exceptions, totally missing the big macroscopic picture and rules in the process.
I think if we’ve taken steps forward in some ways in understanding human nature and nature, we’ve taken steps back in others.
In most ways, including our understanding, humanity may be regressing, in light of all the social, political, economic and environmental maladies we face, but only time will tell for sure.
I disagree, I think I’m taking both linguistic, and ontological stances about physiology, neurology and psychology at odds with the stances much or most of the trans community is taking.
Just because we’ve made mistakes with language in the past, or rather, we’ve gradually, reasonably updated language in light of new social realities that were impossible before the 20th century and the advent of birth control, home appliances, mass production and the overpopulation crisis, doesn’t mean we ought to obscure language more than it already is.
It is how language works, 2 3rds of the English language was invented by linguists borrowing from French, Latin and Greek, and from combining and recombining existing words to make new ones.
And we have two perfectly good ones, trans-man and trans-woman, but trans still insists on ruining two perfectly good ones, man and woman, because what trans wants, trans gets, it’s their world now, we’re just guests.
If misleading people about their genitals, is something that causes many people a great deal of discomfort, distress and disgust, so much so that some of them may act out violently, why do it?
Why not just say to someone before you sleep with them: oh by the way, I don’t actually have the genitals I appear to?
Why is that so difficult?
You should be open and honest about issues that may come up in the bedroom with your partner, especially deal-breakers like having the opposite anatomy of what you’ve presented yourself to have.
It’s like the trans community as a whole just don’t care.
They don’t care about the existing cultural or ‘cis gender’ norms, they only care about their need to feel comfortable, they have absolutely no regard for anyone else’s.
They think the 99.5%, and all of reality should just rotate around the whims of the .5%.
That’s never how it’s going to work.
It’s like if I went to a place that presented itself to be a steakhouse, that was actually a vegetarian restaurant, I’d be pretty pissed off too.
No, dude, we don’t actually sell meat here, we just enjoy having the, appearance of restaurants that sell meat.
Whooooooa, dude…far out.
But dude, won’t people be like…pissed off???
Dude, we don’t care, we refuse to compromise who we are.
…dude.
If you think having XX/XY chromosomes, tits/balls and a V/P is all there is to being an actual woman/man, or mostly what there is…than I rest my case.
There is so much more to it than that, anatomically, neurologically and psychologically that trans doesn’t have, and that trans never will have, for the reasons already given in this thread, and many more.