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Dr Strangelove
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Golly, when we down here try to set up special schools for special people everyone gets all fussy. What's up with that?
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:29
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
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No, I'm allowed to be pernickety too. After all if you're going to be using a colloquialism which has fastidious as one of its meanings, spell it correctly. |
I thought the word was "persnickety"? |
You might be thinking of 'persiflage', Iranian combat gear...
No, the lexical thought police and the nearest dictionary to hand (Oxford English, revised with corrections) are here to tell you it's 'pernickety', also meaning ticklish and requiring tact.
Persnickety sounds a bit Grandpa Zebulon Walton.
By the way, Dissident, is every term which you encounter whose meaning you don't know, immediately 'gay' or politically correct?
If so, the world must be getting more and more unbearable for you.
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DRoseDARs
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"My god, it's full of peas..."
Jul 2002
time: 21:29
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Transgendered persons may be considered either A) individuals who have undergone sex-change operations or B) individuals who were born with physical abnormalities: they have both male AND female reproductive parts. A and B aren't mutually exclusive definitions.
At birth the parents would choose a gender for the transgendered child and his/her outward appearance would be altered to fit that decision. The parents would then spend the rest of the child's childhood reenforcing the ideals of that gender on the child. Sometimes that would work, sometimes not. As the child grows older, he/she may begin to feel a little off, like they aren't quite who everyone is telling them they are. Eventually, the individual in question may figure out they were born transgendered. If they were raised male, it may be they've felt female the whole time on the inside. If they were raised female, then the opposite might be true. Just because you get a little snip-snip here or there after birth doesn't mean your body's own chemistry is going to comply with those changes.
Note: A transgendered person's genitalia isn't fully functional; they can't get themselves pregnant by themselves. Either their male organs or their female organs are functional, not both.
Not all transgendered children are mutilated by their parents' bigoted wishes at birth. Some wisely choose to allow the child to grow as they will, giving them the option of choosing once they're old enough for themselves. Puberty is the Great Decider.
Not all people who've undergone a sex-change operation were born transgendered and not all transgendered persons have undergone sex-change operations. I'd go so far as to say most people undergoing said surgery WEREN'T born transgendered, but I lack medical research data to back that up. Regardless of their status at birth, or how they deal with it in adulthood, this group of people got a very raw deal when God was handing out lives. They are truly a man/woman stuck in a woman's/man's body and their upbringing may have made it worse. I have a lot of repect for them because of that. There are things more emotionally agonizing than being a homosexual in a heterosexual world... 
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