Mr, Mrs, Miss... and Mx!

[GommeInc]

Is genderphobia a thing? Seems incredibly useless and out of no where. Since when is stating you have any of the different gender-based prefixes a bad thing? Surely Mx is just making you a target?

[Aiden]

I don't understand why anyone else cares [in a negative way] about things like this. It's like me complaining about horror films even though them existing has no direct effect on me or my life. Is someone wants to be Mx then cool and you shouldn't care.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I don't understand why anyone else cares [in a negative way] about things like this. It's like me complaining about horror films even though them existing has no direct effect on me or my life. Is someone wants to be Mx then cool and you shouldn't care.

It isn't really them doing it that concerns people (I couldn't care less whether you cut your bits off and pretended you were a seal as long as i'm not paying for it) but it's more what follows after that. Once it has a foothold, anybody who dares disagree with the practice or mocks the practice in question is immediately hounded as a bigot, a something-phobe and is subjected to nasty letters and protests. And if it goes even further into say the law itself, as it often does, then eventually it becomes a crime aka 'hate speech' to even speak out against the established orthodoxy.

We've seen this with the homosexuality issue.

[Aiden]

It isn't really them doing it that concerns people (I couldn't care less whether you cut your bits off and pretended you were a seal as long as i'm not paying for it) but it's more what follows after that. Once it has a foothold, anybody who dares disagree with the practice or mocks the practice in question is immediately hounded as a bigot, a something-phobe and is subjected to nasty letters and protests. And if it goes even further into say the law itself, as it often does, then eventually it becomes a crime aka 'hate speech' to even speak out against the established orthodoxy.

We've seen this with the homosexuality issue.

Question: why do you care about it if it doesn't affect you?

If I want to be a woman then why can't the money I (one day) and everyone put into the system be used to help mental and physical health issues? Like it's supposed to? It's like saying someone with a rare disease shouldn't get treated because it cost money.

No one should have the right to express hate. Being racist, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, etc is hate and should be treated as so. Yes I agree some people are OTT with what is and isn't offensive but the line of humour will be more understood when people can be civil and learn from each side. If you truly want people to speak what they believe, you should encourage knowledge on all sides and not just one.

A lot of things are quick to be called an 'hate crime' because it's so common. If no or little of the actual hate crime existed then there would be more tolerance on both sides to come to a mutual benefit of how to go about things... Although some groups and missions are useless. I'm not clairvoyant but I don't see LGBT rights going backwards from now, not unless there's some sort of neo-Nazi rise or something along those lines.

I was in a careers meeting the other day and my teacher advised me to take up charity of human rights. I said no. I would be embarrassed. Not being it's embarrassing to embrace the LGBT culture but because I shouldn't have to. The same applies to the other side, it's embarrassing for people who oppose same-sex marriage and the 'lifestyle' to spend their life protesting something they have no control over. It's sad to see people waste their life on something they don't enjoy or can change.

Don't want to talk about gay people? Stop making news about gay people.

[AgnesIO]

"I don't want to identify as a gender" lol. It's insanity.

Completely agree with this. Crazy.

[GommeInc]

Question: why do you care about it if it doesn't affect you?

If I want to be a woman then why can't the money I (one day) and everyone put into the system be used to help mental and physical health issues? Like it's supposed to? It's like saying someone with a rare disease shouldn't get treated because it cost money.

No one should have the right to express hate. Being racist, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, etc is hate and should be treated as so. Yes I agree some people are OTT with what is and isn't offensive but the line of humour will be more understood when people can be civil and learn from each side. If you truly want people to speak what they believe, you should encourage knowledge on all sides and not just one.

A lot of things are quick to be called an 'hate crime' because it's so common. If no or little of the actual hate crime existed then there would be more tolerance on both sides to come to a mutual benefit of how to go about things... Although some groups and missions are useless. I'm not clairvoyant but I don't see LGBT rights going backwards from now, not unless there's some sort of neo-Nazi rise or something along those lines.

I was in a careers meeting the other day and my teacher advised me to take up charity of human rights. I said no. I would be embarrassed. Not being it's embarrassing to embrace the LGBT culture but because I shouldn't have to. The same applies to the other side, it's embarrassing for people who oppose same-sex marriage and the 'lifestyle' to spend their life protesting something they have no control over. It's sad to see people waste their life on something they don't enjoy or can change.

Don't want to talk about gay people? Stop making news about gay people.

You could argue it's not solving the issue, but making it worse. People demand "equality" or recognition yet this is just segregating people who, for whatever reason, have a fear of having a gender (NOTE: this is having a gender in general. This is not about hating the gender you have and therefore changing it which is perfectly fine). It's confirming there is a problem, rather than solving it.

It supports there's a mental health issue which isn't going to go away with an Mx suffix which adds an unnecessary label.