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Wesley Hilliard said:

yconner said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

Calvinator said:

I thought Apple Insider was asking its posters to refrain from political commentary. Then comes this hit piece, ostensibly regarding Apple considering advertising on X, and quickly launching into political diatribe. Come on, you can do better.

It's the truth. If there's anything here that is incorrect, please feel free to email us and let us know. X is a controversial platform and Musk is a controversial figure. Apple considering bringing back advertising to the platform is heavily dependent on what's going on with the platform and the owner. It is all relevant and not a "hit piece" or "political diatribe."

We don't shy away from the truth at AppleInsider. We hope our readers do the same.

Of course by politically neutral you mean left-wing, when you say anti-transgender views if you wanted to say the truth you could have said controversial views on transgender issues, it's not anti-transgender whatsoever to say a man is a man and a woman's is a woman, it's an opinion so fact doesn't come into this whatsoever, I suppose my point is that as much as I completely disagree with Elon Musk, I could provide you with several examples where appleInsider  just gets it wrong politically, especially when it comes to cover the UK, that aside you guys do great work and I try to ignore the unconscious bias that you guys clearly have

This is where things get tricky, what you've attributed to opinion is actually well known scientific fact. Science shows that throughout human history, animal evolution, and every observation of sex versus gender, that transgender/transsexuality is actually something that exists all over the animal kingdom. In birds, amphibians, insects, and yes, even humans.

For example, there are cases where people are born intersex where they have attributes of both male and female sex organs. The idea that "there can only be two" excludes this entire group of people that definitely exist.

Doctors that feared that leaving a child born intersex would lead to social stigma and ostracism performed surgeries to assign them one sex or the other. Never giving that child a choice, and often, not even telling the parents it happened, and it still occurs today. Then if that child grows up feeling they are a gender that isn't represented by their sex, what do you call that?

Being transgender is quite rare (like less than a half of a percent) but it has existed in humanity since homo sapian took its first step. All these people have ever asked is to be allowed to exist. Science supports their existence. And science overwhelmingly states all they need is for us to accept them and call them by what they request, and let the doctors help them achieve their chosen presentation of that gender.

Calling trans people an opinion, an anomaly, or something that needs to be corrected is no different than saying vaccines cause autism. It is ignoring science, ignoring fact, and politicizing an entire group of people that just want to exist in peace.

There is only one group of people politicizing their existence, and it isn't the left.

Our "unconscious bias" as you call it is towards science, compassion, and in my case specifically, believing as a Christian that it is our job to love everyone and leave the judgment to God.

Your opinion is wrong. Facts prove that. Telling someone they are a man or a woman because it is your opinion changes nothing. That person is what they are because they know themselves, not because of some unnecessary binary modern society placed on sex.

The idea that there are only two genders and trans people don't exist is actually quite a new idea brought about by Christian puritan colonizers that erased most of the cultures around the world that believed otherwise. One of the first people targeted by Hitler in his rise to power were those that didn't conform with the puritan view of sex or gender. There's a reason why these "opinions" are tied to right wing politics and extremism.

But I'm glad you enjoy our writing even if you don't agree with the science or facts around trans issues. Being anti-trans is being anti-human and anti-science. It's quite simple.

Wesley Hilliard said:

Calvinator said:

I thought Apple Insider was asking its posters to refrain from political commentary. Then comes this hit piece, ostensibly regarding Apple considering advertising on X, and quickly launching into political diatribe. Come on, you can do better.

It's the truth. If there's anything here that is incorrect, please feel free to email us and let us know. X is a controversial platform and Musk is a controversial figure. Apple considering bringing back advertising to the platform is heavily dependent on what's going on with the platform and the owner. It is all relevant and not a "hit piece" or "political diatribe."

We don't shy away from the truth at AppleInsider. We hope our readers do the same.