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Is the comparison correct, to ask to change age, just like transgenders want to be the opposite gender?

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) November 9th, 2018
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46133262
He says it’s the same as changing the gender of a person. What is the argument against it or is it a correct comaprison?

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Yes, I feel that he is correct. Ageism is mostly horrible nonsense, as is requiring people to identify as an age, reveal their “actual” age, etc.

Zaku (30355

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The date you were born is an absolute, gender is not. I guess once we discover how to reverse the aging process we can consider this question relevant.

tinyfaery (44087

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Facts must remain facts. While I alone am in the position to know (or suspect) my gender, my birthdate is a documented fact.

stanleybmanly (24153

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Gender and age are determined by birth and trips around the sun. Those facts are immutable.
Maturity and who you feel you are are malleable.

ARE_you_kidding_me (20021

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Not even close. Transgender people don’t want to be another gender; they are the gender they recognize for themselves. Society is wrong in assigning gender based on genitalia.

Stache (4934

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I walked into a kindergarten room the other day, and one of the kids exclaimed, “Are you an old lady??!!” His tone was like, “I’ve heard they exist but I’ve never actually seen one!” Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry….

Dutchess_III (46813

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@Stache, or anyone else, what if the person is tested and is found to have a X & Y chromosomes, or XX chromosomes? Is that as definitive as age?

Dutchess_III (46813

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@Dutchess_III That is confirmation of sex, not gender. Gender changes across time and place. It is not a fixed category that simply correlates to the sex one is born as.

tinyfaery (44087

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Why did the word “gender” start getting used instead of a new word? Gender is about genetalia and chromosomes, the same way that there is a person (from conception) growing in the uterus not an appendige.

flo (13313

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At least since the 1970’s.

tinyfaery (44087

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@tinyfaery I wasn’t asking when it started but why it did? Why didn’t the pro the concept of transgender come up with another word?

flo (13313

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@Stache and @tinyfaery Even if they discover to change the aging process, a person is born on a certain date. People are born with many things that have nothing to do with being led to believe x, y or z, as in for example “If you like football your genetalia should be male”

flo (13313

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What other kind of word would you suggest @flo?

Dutchess_III (46813

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…I meant “If you like “playing” football your genetalia should be male”

flo (13313

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Why?