Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-30094185-20171201040947

Pigzillion: I think we can both agree that you believe that trans people are not truly the gender they identify as, yes? Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I only did a quick skim through the Kite thread and may have misread something. So, and feel free to ignore this and correct me if my base assumption is incorrect, but by saying that trans people are not truly the gender they identify, you are saying that trans people don't exist, and are instead just delusional cis people. For instance, as an allegory, pretend I said "Love isn't a real emotion. Sure, some people might think they love someone else, but that's a mental illness that needs to be cured. But I never said love doesn't exist!" I would be contradicting yourself. While this isn't the best analogy, hopefully you understand the point I'm making.

Furthermore: your stance of referring people only based on their biological sex is extremely flawed, for many reasons. First of all, intersex people exist. They aren't the majority, but the percentage of people who are intersex is fairly similar to the percentage of people with red hair. It would be ridiculous to pretend like people only have hair that is blonde or brown or black or white and refuse to say that someone has red hair just because it's rare! Secondly: in real life, you will often not know what someone's biological sex is. A number of trans people pass extremely well as their gender identity, and if they don't make a habit of outing themselves and you aren't a close friend of theirs, you would never know they were trans! I, personally, have had different people refer to me with both male and female terms-clearly they can't both be right! In fact, none of them were, as I'm nonbinary and use neutral terms when possible. Finally, it's just plain transphobic. Refusing to acknowledge a trans person's identity is an act of transphobia.

Alluka is pretty clearly transgender, and she clearly identifies as a girl. Referring to her as a boy is an act of transphobia. Insisting that she is really male because of the sex she was assigned at birth is transphobia. In this case, it's even more ridiculous than usual because for all we know, Alluka is biologically female thanks to a wish to Nanika, in which case even if we use pronouns corresponding to her biological sex, the correct pronouns are she/her.