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It's not a matter of "transphobic" or "racist" though, and I put them in quotes because people use those words WAY too readily these days. If you say biological gender is a fact then this is 100% accurate, just because someone feels a particular way doesn't make that any more true than anything that comes out the mouth of Meghan Markle, so why should they be cancelled? Why should JK Rowling get called transphobic for supporting someone who was sacked for having a strongly held view (ignoring the fact that it was also...well...fact), because some other strongly held view is apparently more important? Universities are becoming echo chambers where only the left wing, ultra-liberal views are allowed and all other views are "cancelled". I would discuss anything with anyone because if I want to change your mind to my opinion, why would I be so scared of you trying to change my mind to your opinion? ESPECIALLY IN A CENTRE OF LEARNING

No such thing as biological gender. Biological sex is a fact but that doesn't mean you get to discriminate against people because of their gender identity, which is precisely what the person who was sacked did. Some views are universally wrong. You can't argue for slavery, you can't argue for Hitler, you can't argue for human trafficking. You can't argue flat earth. So why should anyone have to listen to it?

Yes, gender is a human construct and biological sex is not as cut and dried as many think- humans are more complex than that. One to two percent are born intersex and when you look at secondary sex characteristics I haven’t got stats for that but the numbers go way up and things are even more muddled. My new favourite podcast is Gender Reveal, the host calls them self a gender detective and the very first episode is gender 101 where they go over terms and definitions. Humans are wonderfully and fascinatingly diverse, dreaming of a world where we can all have space to be our best selves 🌈💝

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It's called being a functioning human being and learning to ignore things. There's a BIG difference between disagreeing that you can pick and choose your gender (sometimes based on the day of the week), and saying the holocaust was fine.

Then do you agree that Holocaust deniers should be cancelled? And where do you draw the line? (Also nobody is picking and choosing their gender; they are the gender they were born with. Just because it's not your idea of gender, doesn't mean it's not valid)

If someone wants to deny the holocaust, you discuss with them and educate them, cancelling ANYONE is infantile and pointless, same as them trying to cancel history by saying something didn't happen that did. If gender is just a social construct, why are you so convinced that you're the "wrong" one rather than just viewing the social construct as not applying to you? Be who you are, but don't change the meaning of words to fit your agenda

Not sure I understand your point about being the "wrong" one or changing the meaning of words, can you elaborate? But I find it interesting that those against cancel culture say everyone's trying to pretend things didn't happen. AFAIK nobody is saying things didn't happen, they're saying it's not something to be celebrated. They're saying the bad things should be acknowledged. Harry Potter is still selling, JK hasn't been banned from Twitter, people are just saying her opinion is bad. What's the alternative there? Everyone doing nothing - and saying nothing happened when it did.

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People are saying some horrible things to and about JKR, including the child stars who owe her so much, all because she said that women's rights are failing on account of pandering to trans, such as the male (no hormones, no surgery) sex offender who claimed he identified as female so got put in a women's prison and then did what he does. Or the trans athletes with a ridiculously unfair advantage, smashing female world records because they're men. As for my other points, gender and sex are synonyms, to claim gender is a "feeling" is changing the meaning of the word. Also if someone is "assigned" male at birth (for instance) and then decides "gender is a social construct and doesn't really exist", then why is the same person so adamant that he is a she rather than just living his life?

Gender and sex aren't synonymous though. Your sex is biological, your gender is psychological. If I put your brain in a robot body, you'd have preferences of how that body would look, down to the genitals. That's your gender. You're also confusing "social construct" with "not real". Money is a social construct, it's very much real but it's properties are not concrete and universal.

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Nobody is forcing anyone to listen to anything, but cancelling people and "safe spaces" is pathetic and non constructive

Good argument, thanks for the intelligent debate.

Surely that's what you wanted. You wouldn't have been that f*****g stupid otherwise.