Trans men are men.
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So why even use the word 'trans'? Surely it's meaningless. No conceivable difference, right?
Black men are men too. It's an identifier for a member of a marginalized community. Feigning ignorance like this isn't funny or entertaining.
It is a useful identifier only in the context of how black men a different (from "normal men"?). Most of the time black men are just men, but there are a few ways they are different. If you are not specificity trying to bring out one of that cases where black men a different you are continuing the idea that black men are different which doesn't help most of the cases where they are different. There are a couple medical instances where black men are different that should remain, but for the most part differences between black men and [normal?] men are just about discrimination and so if that doesn't apply to what you are talking about then black men is a harmful lable.
I'm not feigning ignorance. I'm trying to make the point that if it's true it doesn't need said with any kind of modifier. The distinction itself is the difference, and the people who are bothered about it aren't any more crazy than I am with the phobias I have.
The big group men include both cis men and trans men. Both are men.
It's pretty simple if you're not a asshole about it.
What makes us men any more than being beings with arbitrary shapes? I'm using arbitrary in the literal sense of "decided by individuals without regards to external factors".
I'm not a man. I'm me, and I happen to be in this body. All these words are just ways other people are labeling me so they can decide how I'm to be treated. Putting a label on a person is no different than putting a handle on your coffee pot.
Mango, why do you always have to be the one saying absolutely ridiculous shit?
Nobody even mentioned trans people. Do you just go around spouting transphobia at random people?
Read the post.