As soon as we all get people on board with “gays are ok” we can start to work on acceptance of transgenderism. I’m an open minded guy, and even I can’t quite wrap my head around trans issues. I get “Man, I’d love to stick my dong in that dude”, but I don’t get “Man…wish I didn’t have this dong.”

That being said, insensitivity is ugly, no matter where you place it. So I console myself that comments like “this semantic debate only has one side” will eventually go away.

Also, “boy” is a word, not an actual thing. It’s a code. We call “x” a boy, but it isn’t a “boy”. A boy does not exist but in our nomenclature. Neither does “baby”, “child”, “adolescent” or “adult”, for that matter. Not concretely. We have ideas of these things, but they are not set in stone. Yes, nature gives you a weiner. Nature also gives people the confusion about wanting it or not. Just at a much much lower rate (last I checked, getting a weiner runs at around 50%… I’ll check some notes and get back to you.)