In the future, maybe a hundred years from now, when we're able to do whole head or brain transplants on top of monoclonal bodies we grow in a lab - to regain our youth, our health; to trivially be rid of cancer - do you think people will really give a damn about any of that?
We'll have people swapping genders and races and even species (I'm certain someone will pay to have cat ears or a tail). This will happen left and right because there will be no societal stigma anymore. People will embrace the full spectrum of possibility. We won't hate on a superficial basis. (Just for all the others, like pride and jealousy.)
You might even find yourself wanting to become a transgenic "trigender pyrofox from the forest planet". And I wouldn't judge. Who am I to tell you how to live your life? I'm not taking your Bible, guns, privacy, or religion away either. I just want you to ease up on hating others.
One day science fiction will be reality. And when it is, can you possibly harbor this same primitive hate?
Btw, my wife is trans. She's a fashion model. She's 100% passing and men steal glances at her and try to get her number constantly. You have probably met trans people you're attracted to and don't even know it.
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody knew it, did you commit the sin of lusting after "the wrong chromosomes?" Is someone going to damn you to eternal hell for it?
Live and let live. You're being the "far left progressive people" you claim to hate when you try to interfere in the lives of others. They want to take your guns and your god? Well, why are you trying to take people's dignity and tell them how to live? Two way street. It's horseshoe shaped and you have more in common than you think. Blind hatred for a way of life you're unfamiliar with is chief most. You have leftist allies who hate Christianity and other groups. You have so much in common. The only thing is that you're playing for a different team with a different jersey and a different brand of prejudice.
Jesus told you to love. Do it. Don't follow the antichrists teaching messages of hate.
Love is what brings us together and makes us stronger. If you don't have love to give or nice things to say, just keep it to yourself and stop adding negativity to the world.
> Your guns-and-god remarks are way off the mark, by the way. I'm atheist, feminist, and probably more to the left than you. There's nothing progressive about trans-activist beliefs, fundamentally it's all about encouraging sexism and attacking women for not complying with male demands.
I don't understand how TERFs are a thing. That's somehow worse than religious hatred, because you actually did do some independent thinking on this and still arrived at this hateful conclusion. The cold dark universe cares nothing about us, even if the light of our civilization is what ultimately brings meaning.
You think sex is sovereign. I think everything in our genes is a set of shackles and limitations that show how beautiful, yet how cruelly inadequate evolution is in optimizing for happiness - it's just an algorithm for reproductive fitness. Mote of dust, infinite universe. No sanctified meaning in our abiotic origin or our ape body plans.
You deny our brain's sovereignty and freedoms - the most majestic phenomenon in the universe - when you cling to genetics as a dogma.
> fundamentally it's all about encouraging sexism and attacking women for not complying with male demands.
Do you think women can't become men? That they shouldn't be allowed to? Don't deserve to be?
Do you think being a woman is an exclusive identity and a right and a privilege? Better than male? A club now denied to oppressive brutes as a form of generational restitution to the matriarchy?
Does this stem from a hatred of one gender over another? Or perhaps just a preference? A disgust for men wanting something they should never be allowed to have?
What do you think about being born disabled?
Being born short?
Being born disfigured?
Ugly?
Being born poor?
Balding?
Getting atherosclerosis or cancer because of genetic predisposition?
Our neanderthal skin and sex marker profiling is flawed. It was built as a survival mechanism and is no longer needed to help us kill rival tribes and produce dozens of offspring.
But it's not just our reactions to bodies, it's our bodies themselves.
Our birthright is a set of shackles. We are more than our biology. We didn't choose it - we exist in spite of it. We are our hopes and our dreams and our love. Our actions and our deeds. The things our bodies could never be for us.
Our bodies are just dust.
They impose frail limitations on our dreams.
Do not ascribe value to these weak little prisons that destine us to death.
I am not the me that you see. I am how I spend my limited time here. I am the ripples of my actions throughout society. I am who I touch and act throughout. The ideas that I spread, which will outlive my skin and bones.
I utterly denounce your labels as primitive and anachronistic and harmful.
Where we're going we won't even have bodies or sexes or hatred. Your kind of prejudice can't exist there.
Trans people exist and are people too.