Appearances can be deceiving just because something looks like X, it doesn't mean it is X.

Now you might be thinking, Trent, that's obviously true.

Does this really deserve a whole episode to talk about?

Well, you'd be surprised how often this bad argument comes up in popular discourse,

especially when it comes to transgender ideology and abortion.

Liberals use this to distort the very thing that makes us human,

and it leads to tragic consequences. That's what we're going to talk about today here on the

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So as I mentioned, the appearances argument comes up a lot when transgender advocates say a man pretending to be a woman is a woman because, well, just look at her.

Or these advocates will make hay over a person mistakenly thinking a transgender

person is not transgender. Sometimes the argument comes off more sophisticated, as in this LGBT

article, which says the following. The belief that all transgender people are unattractive to you,

when there are some undeniably very attractive ones, and that you could not have chemistry

with them, or you religiously object to transgender people, even when presented evidence to the

contrary, is an expression of transphobia. Their argument is basically this. Look at how well this man

fools people into thinking he is a woman, therefore he must be a woman, or it's bigoted to stop being attracted

to someone just because you found out they aren't the sex you thought they were. Now, these arguments

sound dumb when you put it this way, but it comes up all the time in the context of people who

identify as transgender and can pass for being an actual member of the sex they claim to be. Now, I agree that if

you are a man who already has softer features, you spend a ridiculous amount of money and time on

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