D. C. Bear said:
Waco1947 said:
Not a misperception. You are intelligent DC but when it to to human sexuality you need an education in human sexuality.
You have a misinterpretation of scripture and sexuality. Your doctrine is getting in the way of your literacy about these issues. You call it mind reading on my but the fact is -- you call them delusional and abnormal.
It is hard to discuss with someone who apparently refuses to get educated.
It is harder still to discuss with someone who randomly claims that I have my views on individuals who mistakenly believe they are the opposite sex because I don't understand scripture properly when I am not using scripture at all in forming my views.
Again, we can scientifically identify whether a human being is male or female. If a human male says he is actually female then he is clearly wrong about that factual assertion. So, yeah, it is not normal for a human male to believe that he is actually a human female. This is no different from a human believing that he or she is a dog or a cat. There is nothing about scripture or doctrine or sexuality in this statement. This is simply logic. You are speaking out of ignorance about human sexuality and gender identity..
You like to accuse me of hating people. That is a false accusation. If you have friends or family members with a serious mental illness, it does not mean that you do not value them or love them to say that they are delusional or abnormal.
You like to accuse me of being "uneducated" on these issues. You know nothing of my knowledge of human sexuality. It seems that you believe that if some doesn't hate people and is educated then they cannot disagree with you. That is both incredibly arrogant and incredibly shallow on your part.
I hate to break it to you, but it is possible to not hate people, to be quite knowledgeable and educated on the topic and still not agree with you.
Do you disagree that it is scientifically rather routine to determine someone's sex? Certainly this is true in percentages in the very high 90s.
Again, if someone who is a male is actually a female, then it is not an injustice to women for him to compete in athletics against them.
If he is not actually female, then he is experiencing some kind of delusional thinking to believe that he is female.
You say it is "probably" unjust for women to be forced to compete against men. It follows logically (not theologically) because I "hate" someone, that it is also "probably," according to you, deluded thinking on his part to think that his actual sex is female.
The American medical association is my source of the science not your predujudice. Get real your facts and logic.
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DC, you speak out of ignorance
Waco1947 ,la