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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I believe that the soul/spirit of some people is born into the wrong body and that this is what's happened to true transgender people.
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This is Queer Theory 101 … the belief in the “gendered soul”.
It is also the reason why it’s basically outrageous for anyone to claim that ‘misgendering’ should be any sort of crime, because calling someone ‘he’ when they think they are a ‘she’ is no more serious than refusing to affirm their metaphysical beliefs.
We did away with our blasphemy laws (albeit surprisingly recently).
You may believe that someone’s soul may be born into the wrong body, but I don’t … and while I wouldn’t expect you to prove it scientifically (it being a metaphysical belief, which is categorically not science), I would hope you could provide some consistent body of quality philosophical work in support of it. Such intellectual rigour is notably absent in this area.