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In this article, I wanted to answer some of the common regrettable questions cis people ask trans people – "Do you have a penis or a vagina?", "How do you have sex?" and winner, perhaps, of the confused and misguided question derby: "Why do want to become a man if you want to have sex with men?" My hope was that this would stop the flow of inappropriate questions in one-to-one situations.
Thus, to ask about a person abstracted from his self-interpretations is to ask "a fundamentally misguided question" (Taylor 1989, 34).
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So far while dealing with empty seats Sebastian Coe has had the air of a patient headmaster fending off a series of precociously misguided questions from the lower sixth.
President Obama spoke at a town hall meeting on Monday and responded to some disturbingly misguided questions with the steady patience of a school photographer at the Colonel Ritalin Academy for Sticky Toddlers.
But since this is obscured by a confederacy of fools and fanatics; by an analysis of parts that only serves to hide the whole; by seemingly erudite answers to misguided questions; by hyperbole and titillation; and by predatory profiteers -- there is a need to shine a light on it.
Mrs. Clinton's labor supporters say the Obama forces are misguided to question her toughness on trade.
Fans of the DC Comics character saw the casting decision as misguided, although questions were based less around her fairly short CV and more around the fact that she was "too skinny".
But Mr. O'Donnell's provocative questioning of the value of academic research and his ties to the Texas Public Policy Foundation — which had promoted a set of seven higher education proposals that many academics found misguided — prompted questions about the direction in which the system was headed and significant backlash from well-heeled alumni.
As Americans debate whether this might truly be a "post-racial" age, Miss Anne's ambitions and failures remind us what happened when an earlier generation of earnest and committed (if sometimes misguided) women questioned the meaning of the color line, and pushed for the right to define their own racial identities.
Mr. Rudnick also finds the questions misguided.
And I remember how well-meaning, but misguided, people sometimes questioned whether someone with my background could succeed at an elite university".Is that good-two-shoes paternalism?
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