A person’s personal choice, such as what car to drive or what gender to present as, is not political, and not even remotely comparable.

It very well is though, but unrelated to the subject

Are human rights political, simply because they’re enshrined in government documents? If so, then I guess we can’t have any depictions life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness either.

Human rights, subjects like freedom and stuff ARE political. The comic depicting some situations might not be even though they're feature, depending on the angle that is taken. The same comic in a situation where there's less freedom would not have been political had it not made reference to the debated topic or freedom.

Also, the 'political' stuff I'm talking about is more 'heated' subjects. Everything can be political, it's just a scale though, and I would say for this comic that the threshold has been exceeded.

Because lemmy is filled with people that wish to believe there wasn't any debate, or who already are okay with the gender question, which is cool, but it doesn't represent the reality. That's exactly what I said: it's just that the current lemmy community isn't really that representative, but acting like this isn't a political subject in pretty much every country is ignorance

For people who have grown up under fundamentalist religion or abusive families, this definition of shame is very narrow. Often times, shame isn't a vice that you hold onto for an excuse, it's something that you were told you should feel for so long.

I don't feel shame for being bisexual anymore or for thinking "filthy" and "sinful" thoughts but for years and years I did.

I know this is not related to the previous thread but I just wanted to point out that shame can sometimes be something placed on us, even if we don't want to believe it.

and I guess that must be the reason why you're trying to public shame me? Lol.

Just make your argument logical and then we'll talk. Who the fuck even are you to tell me what should be politicized or not?

Oh look at me miss “I want to have the right to exist as a person”, so deeply political, such politics.

No need to play dumb. The subject is not about the person, but the acts. Just like pedophiles can say "I want to have the right to exist as a person" and suddenly is political. You're purposely excluding the context.

And apart from that, the rights aren't even debated here, the political subject i'm pointing towards is whether a MtF can be considered "girl" when the initial situation was obviously talking about sex at birth, not gender.

Your instance have “free” as in “freedom” in it, a totaly apolitical concept, of course.

And it is political in that way, yes. Does it matter to the subject? No. What I'm saying is that your instance's political opinion is directly the one that is discussed in this topic.