On the Edge of Trolling, pt 5
Comments (17) (A note: These have sort of moved from “this might be trolling” to “this is obviously trolling,” but I like the title too much to change it. So “On the Edge of Trolling” it remains.)
Yet another comment to Misogyny and the Male Gaze, which is apparently where baby trolls go to learn how to fly:
No amount of blogging, self denial, surgery, or hormone pills is ever gong to change this fact:
Born a man, always a man. Born a woman, always a woman.
This is straight, clear cut science. It cannot be argued against. It’s as solid as 1+1=2.
Mmm. Smell that? Some lovely proof by assertion, with a hint of You’re arguing with opinions not fact, vintage 2009.
I think the only appropriate course of action is to respond in kind:
No amount of trolling, assertion, rejection, or dismissal is ever going to change this fact:
Gender is more complicated than what’s between your legs, or what you were assigned at birth.
This is straight, clear cut science. It cannot be argued against. It’s as solid as 1+1=2.
See? I can make assertions without backing them up, too! I could back them up, referencing some of the various different ways that gender is more complicated than “Born a man, always a man. Born a woman, always a woman.” (And that’s without even getting into trans issues!) But that would be silly.
Likewise, I could respond by stating that my own lived experience gives the lie to your assertions. That your argument boils down to how no true Scotsman would ever transition in the first place, and therefor I must not “really” be a woman. That stating “It’s as solid as 1+1=2″ does not magically make it so.
But since all of those arguments are hypothetical, and nothing I’d ever actually put forth as a response, I guess you win: My transition has been for naught, and I shall now attempt to rebuild the shambles of my gender-confused life.
Themocracy