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deathjavu This foreboding is fa... from The internet, obviously Since: Feb, 2010
This foreboding is fa...
#26: Jan 16th 2011 at 4:29:29 PM

[up] Because people who spend a lot of time/effort studying something, even if they aren't doing it in any sort of rigorous fashion, like to be taken seriously.

As for the OP, reading it again: No, it's punishing people for automatically assuming the other person is lying, rather than taking their word for it on a deeply personal issue that they would have little motivation to lie about.  *

Edit: Wait, requiring people? No, nothing is requiring you to think this way. It's not a law. It's just socially discouraged because it's associated with hateful (i.e. socially disruptive) people who cover their distaste for different people with "clever" arguments.

edited 16th Jan '11 4:32:58 PM by deathjavu

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Ettina Since: Apr, 2009
#28: Jan 21st 2011 at 7:14:45 AM

"(One study finding 10% of the subjects were asexual pre- and post- transition, though I somewhat question it's veracity)"

On what basis? That finding doesn't surprise me at all. I suspect many trans have hard-to-detect intersexing conditions, and a very large proportion of intersexed people are asexual.

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