Changed my mind just slightly. One last post before my account is deleted per request.
I might be a self important blow hard. But I'm hardly arrogant (any more), or bigoted. I find it laughable that a troll like yourself, Les, would call me bigoted in the face of all these transphobic comments here.
And yes. They were and are transphobic. "I won't call GA she because it's too difficult blah blah", that's transphobia. "You're not a woman because a woman is x,y,z" that's transphobia. And transmisogyny.
I would invite you all to read about privilege. Specifically cisgender privilege (cis is the opposite of trans, so cisgender is someone who identifies with their coercively assigned gender).
http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Cisgender_PrivilegeThe penis can shrink with HRT. I know first hand. My endocrinologist told me it was a possibility. He also said that the testes will shrink, and they did.
In the FAQ you quoted Callaway, it seems blatantly obvious that they're referring to the penis disappearing entirely. I have to suspect that you're just twisting it to serve the point you started to argue before realising you couldn't win it.
I'm also beginning to wonder if all those callouts against you had some merit. Though I do recall at the time, unlike some arselickers around here, I actually took the time to consider them from all angles.
I have to say I love your comment about hormones and mood swings. Not only is that transphobic and transmisogynic, but it's also straight up misogyny...And you're a woman! Hilarious stuff, comedy gold.
Yes, HRT has afforded me the wonderfully uncontrollable ability to swing my moods about. But ask renaeden to support this, I took about an hour or so to compose my thoughts before replying to this thread. I wasn't just reacting like some sensitive teenage girl (which I probably am at this point of my 2nd puberty, but eh *shrugs*).
Am I too sensitive for I2? Yeah probably. But I think it's a good thing. I do worry about all of you and how insensitive you've all become over the years. I think for some of you I2 has become a little fantasy world you can lose yourselves in, where there are no rules and requirements of tact and regarding for others' feelings. I may be too sensitive for I2, but I worry that some of you, maybe all of you are becoming too insensitive for the real world.
I'm sure someone is going to reply "THIS ISN'T THE REAL WORLD, IT'S THE INTERENTS HURR DURR", but my Dad had a saying. "If you do it in training, you do it in the game." Basically this means that any practised behaviour will become part of your overall behaviour. The more bigoted, insensitive, self centred and arrogant you all become here the more you will become out there.
And don't kid yourselves. This thread is a prime example of some of the worst arrogance I have ever seen on this forum. "*I* will never call you she because *I* don't think you meet the criteria of *my* idea of a woman" that's pretty damn arrogant right there.
I freely admit I have been arrogant in my time here. Really really really arrogant. But I've never been a bigot, except maybe to religions.
So why is religion a fair target and transpeople aren't? Why are transpeople a fair target and Odeon's family is not?
Why is anything a fair target?
Nothing should be a 'fair' target. I've attacked religion in the past because of the things it has done that is worthy of attack. It's bigoted nature. A lot religions are about control and power. Keep the masses worshipping the cloud-man, and they won't notice that the priests hold all the power. And then there's the extremists...Christian, Muslim, any religious extremist (perhaps with the exception of atheist extremists) are very dangerous people that are willing to kill to further their cause. That belief system right there is worth attacking.
What harm do trans people do that is worth attacking?
