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We went over this already. Bathrooms are not based on gender, because it isn't quantifiable.
Uh, what? Why does it need to be quantifiable?
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Everyone agrees that sex is more than a *****/******, so I don't know why you insist on saying that.
Saying what? I gave an example of a label that would appropriately exclude some trans people from using the bathroom that matches their gender, but not necessarily their sex. If you thought i meant that that is the only thing that defined sex, then you've completely failed to understand anything i've said.
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How do you define sex?
Well, like you, i'm bad at defining words, so looking over some dictionaries, merriam-webster defines it as
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either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures
Which sounds about right to me, so let's go with that. Are you happy with that definition?
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It's not quantifiable? Or it's not not quantifiable? I'm so confuzzled?
It's not based on sex.
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No. pretty much everyone uses bathrooms based on their sex. The issue is that for 99.8% (or whatever) of the population, sex and gender happen to be the same.
I don't know, it sure seems to me like more people use the bathroom that matches their gender than use the one that matches their sex.
By the way, what about intersex people? Which bathroom should they use?
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You seem to want to solve the issue by only looking at what would make things easier for you, while ignoring that your solution makes things harder for everyone else.
It's funny to me that you keep repeating this, despite more and more people coming and saying they have no problem sharing a bathroom, or even locker room with trans people. In fact, i don't think anyone here has actually said otherwise.
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At the end of the day, it's your case that is the outlier in terms of society, and you have to learn how to adjust to societal norms,
Like blacks? Like gays?
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Rules only exist to the point that they can be enforced. If you have no means to test that the rule has been broken, then you can't enforce it.
Since when? How do you quantify hate crimes? How do you prove self defense? There's all kinds of rules/laws that can't really be quantified.
Edited, Mar 29th 2013 6:41pm by Rachel9