Last night, I was talking with someone who is in their early 20s about the troubles developing around the use of the word "tranny," and they got very passionate, saying, "I HATE GENDER! Fuck gender!"

I asked, "How could gender change so that you wouldn't be so upset by it?" They said, "I don't know, I just wish I could set it on fire and get rid of it and make it go away! IT'S SO STUPID! I HATE IT!"

All I could say was: "I totally understand how you feel. So try to imagine feeling the way you feel right now for every day of your life until you're 50. Then see how that weighs on ya!"

Gender, as we know it, sucks? Okay! Let's try to come up with something else!

Why don't we start by addressing the recent controversy over the use of the word "tranny"?

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