NJ: // The definition of bigotry is objective (as per the dictionary definition) but it includes a requirement (that the belief held is “unreasonable”) which is very subjective. You don’t find unreasonable what many other people do find most objectionable. Ergo, anybody who disagrees with you is necessarily a bigot. //
First of all, the last line isn't true at all: reasonable people can reasonably disagree. But secondly, this continues to make the same mistake. I'm not discussing *my* definition of bigotry, or how *I* would see it manifested towards transgender people. I'm asking about *yours*. I'm asking where *you* draw the line between a reasonable, as you see it, position, and an unreasonable one, when it comes to transgender people. It's the same question I'm asking Naomi.
There's no trap here. I'm not waiting for you to define it so that I can turn around and say, perhaps, "aha! Here's a post from you three years ago that arguably strays into bigotry as you define it!" It doesn't matter what I think. Where do *you* draw the line?
Allow me to help you a little. You would always call a person by their given or preferred name, and have actively stepped up here to protect their rights to be so called by removing comments that do not. This is a clear distinction to be drawn here. I don't think it's unreasonable to regard not even affording that most basic right, of a person to have their own name, as making out somebody who is bigoted.
But this can hardly be the only distinction. What else?