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I personally refuse to call anyone a male or female if they were not born with the right parts. This is a mental issue.

How does this work in practice? Do you perform pre-conversation inspections? (Feel free to save us both some embarrassment and make your reply fully gender neutral.)

This is the most pragmatic approach, refusing to walk the labyrinthine trail of gender choices.

What is wrong with a man accepting his biological sex and identifying as female, for example? I think the issue is that said man wants people to call him "she" so he can feel his womanhood complete, something he can never achieve because he's still genetically male and his femininity can only imitate that of a genetic female.

He is Paul, born male and identified as female. She is Susan, born female and identified as gay male. Simple.

Do you personally confirm their "parts" before talking to them?

What do you call someone who was born Intersex (same commonality as natural redheads) then?

Sorry about your mental issue. Have you tried therapy?

That seems unnecessarily combative, given nothing else to build on but this very short opinion.

How is complying to another's pronouns harming you in any way whatsoever? Meanwhile, you're harming them greatly by misgendering.

I have worked with at least one transgender individual who I must assume wished to be accepted as a woman, given how that person dressed, spoke, and the name that that person used. I was happy to use the pronouns she/her as a courtesy, and agree that it did me no harm. But I can also understand that some people feel that it would be harmful if the state or another authority forced them to say something they deemed to be untrue.

I personally refuse to respect you as a human being.

Notice the president was mentioned in the article. Tells you everything you know about it.

This has very little to do with actual science, and more to do with hatred of Trump.

"The right parts" isn't a scientific concept.

Wasn't it a Tom Cruise movie?

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