(Man. You're not wrong, yet I must rant. Please forgive what follows, none of it is directed at you, it's about me being fed up with trans shit.)
I really hate slang use of 'x-phobic' to indicate 'bigoted against x.' (I wish these people just would come out and say that, instead!)
People aren't molecules and this isn't chemistry. I mislike 'cis' for the same reasons. I don't make a habit of torturing language and I hate PC neologisms.
Strictly speaking, the psychiatric definition of a phobia is: "an an abnormal, intense, and irrational fear of a given situation, organism, or object." Note the AND conjunction of these three indicators.
That definition fails on its face when someone yells "transphobe!" at me.
There's nothing irrational about my distaste for transgenderism, nor do I suffer any fear of trans people. There's no intensity, either. Mine is general low-key disgust, coupled with an understanding that the person is likely to be unbalanced if they are taking opposite-sex hormones. (Basically, second puberty!) Definitionally, suffering sex dysphoria is a mental illness that is being enabled by people too afraid to contradict someone who is not of sound mind. I have some sympathy for the underlying condition, but refuse to enable someone who is mentally ill.
The world has too many Yanivs and transtrenders already..
(Yeah, I'm not well adapted to the clown world. But being well-adapted to a sick society makes you sick yourself... so I'll try to stay healthy.)
In chemistry -phobia means repelled by.
(Man. You're not wrong, yet I must rant. Please forgive what follows, none of it is directed at you, it's about me being fed up with trans shit.)
I really hate slang use of 'x-phobic' to indicate 'bigoted against x.' (I wish these people just would come out and say that, instead!)
People aren't molecules and this isn't chemistry. I mislike 'cis' for the same reasons. I don't make a habit of torturing language and I hate PC neologisms.
Strictly speaking, the psychiatric definition of a phobia is: "an an abnormal, intense, and irrational fear of a given situation, organism, or object." Note the AND conjunction of these three indicators.
That definition fails on its face when someone yells "transphobe!" at me.
There's nothing irrational about my distaste for transgenderism, nor do I suffer any fear of trans people. There's no intensity, either. Mine is general low-key disgust, coupled with an understanding that the person is likely to be unbalanced if they are taking opposite-sex hormones. (Basically, second puberty!) Definitionally, suffering sex dysphoria is a mental illness that is being enabled by people too afraid to contradict someone who is not of sound mind. I have some sympathy for the underlying condition, but refuse to enable someone who is mentally ill.
The world has too many Yanivs and transtrenders already..
(Yeah, I'm not well adapted to the clown world. But being well-adapted to a sick society makes you sick yourself... so I'll try to stay healthy.)