Unexpected News: The Wachowski Sisters! Second Wachowski Sibling Comes Out As Trans.

[Wrex Brogan]

Both your definition of "respect" involves lying about someone's status as a man or a woman - this is both utterly irrational and unrelated to respect. I will not go out my way to change the definition of words in order to accomodate someone's will to be what they are not; at the same time it is certainly not a hobby of mine to look for trans people and address them by their sex just for the hell of it.

Additionally, I am neither afraid of trans people nor I suffer for mental illnesses related to them - if you want to be taken seriously I would avoid the use of similar politically-correct neologisms.

...alright, just going to double down on the transphobia then. Well, at least you're honest about it.

And Transphobia - while sharing the root -phobia with fears - doesn't mean you have a fear or mental illness in relation to transgendered people.

It just means you're kind of an asshole towards transgendered people out of biases/ignorance.

Misgendering people? It's a dick move. You can try and sell it anyway you want, but calling someone a gender they aren't... is a dick move. Given people have already explained the actual biological differences transpeople have from birth and the differences between 'sex' and 'gender' to you yet you still stubbornly cling to your ideas... well, as said, you're transphobic.

Quite simple, really.

 

[s0denone]

Wow, it seems crazy that two siblings could both be transgender. In fact I don't understand that at all and the chances of it have to be astronomically low.

That being said, more power to them and fuck the daily mail :O)

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Wow, it seems crazy that two siblings could both be transgender. In fact I don't understand that at all and the chances of it have to be astronomically low.

There are probably a number of contributing genetic factors that increase the chance of any given child being transgender, gender-nonconforming, homosexual, bisexual, and other gender identity and sexuality variants. There are also prenatal womb conditions, along with hormone boosts from the mother that also can account for the likelihood of siblings being gender or sexuality variant. In monozygotic twins(a.k.a. maternal/identical twins) the likelihood of both twins being transgender if one shows signs is around 33%, which is significantly higher than transgenderism in the general populace. Amongst dizygotic twins(a.k.a. fraternal/non-identical twins) the rate is much lower, around only 2.6% of DZ twins turn out to be transgender, when one is found to be transgender. Still the likelihood is far higher amongst siblings than in the general population generally speaking. That also means that social and identity factors also likely play a role too(the nurture side of the equation). Since biology, both genetics and hormones, along with social and personal identity factors play a role, it seems that it's a complicated series of factors that play in. Meaning both nature and nurture factors. What this means is it's probably more likely for siblings to be transgender when one sibling is known to be transgender.

Source study from the University of Hawaii. [http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2013-transsexuality.html]

That being said, more power to them and fuck the daily mail :O)

Indeed the Daily Fail is one scummy publication, how they're still in business is beyond me. Hopefully what happened to Gawker happens to them too.