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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Expecting anything that has only been on the public radar for a few years to be common knowledge is expecting too much. Especially when that subject:
A) Is unintuitive and complex (and yes, this stuff is unintuitive and complex).
B) Affects only a very small number of people.
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I would add, "has not been adequately addressed by biologists, neurologists, and other experts" so that we even know what the heck we're talking about. Like I said earlier, the notion that gender identity and sexual orientation are entirely non-overlapping and independent aspects of a person's identity strikes me as probably false; the human brain simply does not compartmentalize that well and I would imagine that, to varying degrees, there's some interrelation there. But that's just intuition. I'm not qualified to draw that conclusion by any stretch. This warrants further thought by people who are best situated to perform it.
In any case, though, can we all just agree to tone down the hysteria and not go looking for secret Nazis on this issue? I think it's highly encouraging that there is basically no resistance to the idea that people should be supported and accepted regardless of their gender identity. There are of course going to be some backwards-thinking people who still consider trans people unnatural, in the same way there always have been in re: homosexuality, but that isn't the prevailing sentiment. That sort of thinking doesn't appear to me to be the hurdle that it was for gay rights.