I don’t know why I was born transgender, but I have no secret agenda. I want my child to live in a world where they are safe and free to be exactly who they are.
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Fewer than 1 in 3 people report personally knowing someone who is transgender. Yet the American public is saturated with viral social media videos and political news stories, largely generated by a well-funded coalition of organizations long dedicated to making it as difficult as possible for LGBTQ+ people to go about their daily lives.
These organizations proudly advocate for the abuse of LGBTQ+ young people through the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy, and they have celebrated their role in influencing Texas to “investigate” parents who’re doing their level best to support their transgender kids.
They’ve succeeded in generating national debates about excluding transgender kids from school sports, banning medically necessary health care and even prohibiting restroom usage – all under a guise of “protecting young people.” But these debates are largely missing the point.
Transgender people are our friends, family members and neighbors. They work in the cubicle next to us at the office, and they pray next to us in our houses of worship.
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Plot twist: the Trans Agenda is very similar to the Gay Agenda… It was always just a Trapper Keeper. Turns out they just like to be organized.
Its so clearly a scapegoat. Unfortunately rationality is in short supply.
nono, see you don’t understand, the secrete agenda is living.
Don’t tell the government, they won’t like that.
shitposting aside, i like how it says “fewer than 1 in 3” which is incredibly wide, but i’ll assume greater than .5 and less than 1 for sake of the argument. That means, assuming you have a handful of siblings, and parents, there is a none zero chance that someone in your family is trans.
Let’s break it out further, at work, you probably interact with someone who is, especially if you work with customers/clients. Extended family? Almost certainly, online friends and acquaintances? You’d be stupid to think there isn’t a trans person somewhere in that group.
i feel like that stat, and the next sentence “yet the american public” are in direct conflict, considering that statistically, it’s pretty likely that you know a trans person, and considering that for something to be a massive political hot button issue on one side of the aisle, it would have to be at least somewhat prominent.
This shouldn’t be a surprise, this is how this shit works. People don’t like black people having freedom, suddenly the KKK exists. People don’t like women being able to own bank accounts, suddenly misogyny is now a thing. Queer people exist now, why are we acting surprised with that phrasing?
Alright, enough of my autistic shenanigans, go have fun and enjoy something. It’s good for the soul.
1 in 3 KNOW someone whos trans, not IS someon who’s trans
yes, that’s what im saying.
That’s still a very high stat. 33% to be specific.
Its KINDA high? You do realize the flipside to that stat is that 66% of people dont know a single person personally that is trans. So yeah, theres a non zero chance a family member is trans, non zero literally means something isnt impossible, but your first paragraph made it seem like you were interpreting that stat to say if you had 2 siblings that there was a good chance one of you was trans, which is false
that would be how percentages work yes.
I do believe i mentioned that it was statistically possible, specifically, my point was that its very likely that you at least know someone who is. Though i probably did fuck up the bit about family lol.
It’s very likely that you know someone who knows someone who is trans. Not very likely that any one person knows someone who is trans. The actual percentage of people who are trans is like less than 1% iirc
I’m pretty sure the Transgender community is just getting scapegoated by Trump & the GOP because they’re a convenient group to go after. It’s a relatively little known and “strange” group (to mainstream America) that are considered “sexual deviants” and such; a group that, until relatively recently (within 10-20 years), no one would’ve batted an eyelash if you made fun of being transgender or joked about it. It may even still be a reality in some places, my workplace would shitcan you in a heartbeat for that, but I’m sure other places wouldn’t care as much. So just as with illegal immigrants, the Chinese, Muslims, and any other group they can find, the GOP are targeting them to use as a scapegoat for whatever stupid, needlessly cruel shit they can think up.
Well, that’s the problem. They don’t want you to live.
Outspoken anti-Trans bigot and Nazi platformer Kellie-Jay “Posie Parker” Keen has stated just as such on multiple occasions. She’s talked a lot about “we can’t let them trans the children,” but when you press her (hell, even when you don’t) she will admit that she doesn’t think anyone should be allowed to transition at any age. She’s also said that anyone who has transitioned should be forced to detransition. So… she doesn’t like trans people and wants to torture them… other anti-Trans activists are shocked that she attracts Nazis and really want her to go away, but she’s their ideology taken to it’s conclusion.
As long as the Abhramic religions exist the LGBT are at best a tolerated minority.
We should make a secret agenda. On Tuesday, all the trans people will meet up for taco night.
Stop asking start fighting
trans people and our allies are fighting; that’s why the christian theocrats are freaking out and using us as the threat of the day to drum up their stupid, ignorant base.
When we fight back, we get killed. (And then blamed for own deaths/have our deaths covered up - if you believe that Nex offed himself, you know nothing about how corrupt Oklahoma is)
Edit: that was meant to read “didn’t off” himself. I said the opposite of what I meant.
Nex did not kill himself, Owasso covered up the bullying and pretty much every state department is understaffed by under qualified toadies of Stitt.
Oklahoman here. I don’t know whether Nex died by suicide or not. But on a local level, the Owasso (and greater) community hasn’t given up the fight yet. Whether his injuries from the attack at school are what directly killed him or not, it doesn’t change the fact that he’d been a target of bullying for months and that he and his family were repeatedly ignored by the school and the police, and then he was beaten in the school bathroom by several classmates. Since his death, our politicians have doubled down on transphobic rhetoric, and our schools are still becoming more and more hostile towards LGBT+ youth. There’s a lot to talk about here, and local organizations have done a great job on covering these issues in press releases and the like. And there’s still more to come; we’re currently waiting on the release of the Medical Examiner’s full report (unless it’s been published already; I last checked about a week ago, and I just don’t have the emotional spoons today).
Anyway, sorry for going into a whole rant. What I was going to say, in reply to your comment, is that our OCME (office of the chief medical examiner) hasn’t been nationally accredited since 2009. So, um. There’s that. ¯\(°_o)/¯
Yes - I left out a word and changed the entire meaning of the sentence. I do not believe Nex killed himself. I believe that Owasso Public Schools and the Owasso police were complicit and are involved in covering up Nex’s death.
I’m a transgender teacher in Oklahoma that quit teaching last year because I knew that if something happened to me, there would be no help and there would be an immediate flood of bullshit.
The FBI exists because of Oklahoma’s refusal to investigate the murder of minorities…
I love everyone, just don’t expect me to call you kitten, princess, or any other pronouns outside of he/him, she/her, they/them. That’s basically where I draw the line. Other than that, do whatever you want.
Uh huh…but that isn’t transgender, that’s Tumblrgender and they do not represent trans people lol.
Is that a thing? 😮 I also will not be addressing anyone as kitten.
No, it’s another transphobic straw man. Basically the same as saying “Human love is fine just don’t be fucking dogs or kids.” It’s injecting hate into a conversation nobody is having.
Yes, it is. When I was in high school a couple of years ago, a substitute health teacher/activist came in for a week and taught a lot about transgender/gender issues. To be clear, I have no issues at all with transgender individuals or people who struggle with gender identity. But, lord, she unleashed the ‘gender unicorn’ on us, and I couldn’t take it seriously. There were over 70 genders, including princess, prince, kitten, xe/xem, etc.
I believe what she did was actually illegal, akin to someone coming to a school to teach about religion. I’m okay with spreading awareness, but not like this. This was just different. I was being graded on this too, so I was basically forced to answer the questions without being able to object to anything.
My understanding is that it was a Tumblr fad that became viral outside of Tumblr because it’s easy to recognize the absurdity, and it made a great target for ridiculing the woke (back when “woke” was a complement, and we just called this sort of thing being “politically correct”).
Point is, you can’t just impose new words on purpose. Language doesn’t work that way. It’s all about the viral memes taking off. So it’s always best to adapt existing language.
“They” is finally clicking in my mind as a singular gender neutral word, for example. It took a while, I have to admit.
Im a bit of a dummy here but what rights do no trans people havw that trans people dont?
Im a bit of a dummy here
This is true.
I would very much like to have a discussion about the issue not hurl baseless insults. If u want to just hurl baseless insults lmk I’m more than happy to participate but I would have preferred to have a productive discussion.
I would very much like to have a discussion about the issue not hurl baseless insults.
You said you were a dummy. I agreed. You’re just interested in sealioning. Another user pointed out your comment history, and I have no interest in participating in a discussion on your terms.
I told u I had limited knowledge on the subject in regards to rights. I strongly believe in equality and that all people have equall rights. I am still yet to be provided with a right that trans people don’t have that everyone has. I really don’t see how asking for a single example of the claimed behaviour is sealioning the closest thing to behaviour I have been provided with is an issue of bodily autonomy doesnt seem like a specifically trans issue.
And yes go read my comment history strange how my beliefs carry a common thread hey?
I’m not answering your questions on the grounds that I believe they are asked in bad faith. I’m not sorry if this disappoints you.
Question singular, all I want is one valid answer to one question. How can asking a single question requesting 1 valid example of the issue being discussed possibly be bad faith? I strongly suspect if u could answer my question you already would have and since u can’t you have decided to refuse to answer my singular question while claiming me questioning literally anything is bad faith or sealioning.
Question singular, all I want is one valid answer to one question.
That’s nice. I want you to stop bothering me.
Where I am, I don’t have rights to medical care. There are also numerous laws in progress that aim to remove the rights for trans people to participate in sports and use the bathroom.
Since you mentioned sports. I was wondering your view point on how it should be handled in some cases. I’m not at all against it but think it could be tricky when dealing with some sports if someone is male to female transitioning after puberty. In some cases there’s no gray area such as when the world chess organization banned transgender women like what in the fuck. It’s not physical it’s a thinking game I don’t even know why they would separate genders anyway unless to just be sexist and imply one is smarter than the other.
If ur in the us u never had a right to medical care. I’m in aus and currently most if not all gender affirming surgery is classified as cosmetic surgery and not covered my Medicare (nation health) if I want to physically modify my body that is also not covered seems pretty goddamn equal to me. Here’s the dumbed down flowchart: brain doesn’t like physical appearance of body -> brain wants that changed to feel better about itself -> not covered regardless of reason. Explain how this is anything but equality? Should I be protesting my right to have the government pay for me to get a bigger dick?
And the whole sports thing men have physical advances in many sports that’s just science not all of those advantages are removed by being trans. Therefore it is not fare to have them compete against women. Explain how someone with an advantage from having been born as a male competing against people who can never attain that advantage is equality?
And the bathroom thing males are statistically more violent and prone to committing sexual violence this study found there is no appreciable difference in these actions post surgery therefore by putting trans women in women’s bathrooms the statistics say no there is a reason men and women’s bathrooms are separate being trans doesn’t change the math.
:claps fins and barks like a sea lion:
You literally overlook how things like Viagra and estrogen are prescribed as gender affirming care and covered by Medicare to cis folks all the time!
:bark bark:
Why do cis folk get to have gender affirming care but not trans folks?
:slaps fins, barks again:
Your limp dick or low testosterone is god telling you not to breed, why should I subsidize your sex life?
Can u not get prescribes Viagra and/or estrogen?
There is a long way from taking pills to getting surgery and a large price gap.
And baseless insults again why don’t you stop being a right old cunt and engage in a productive manner and have a civilised conversation like an adult?
:barks like a sea lion:
Your comment history is public.
By the way, rare meta-comment on myself. One of the things I have to do as a trans person is go look at people’s comment history before trying to engage with them because so many transphobes use sealioning as a harassment tactic. I’m so tired y’all.
Yea, maybe time to get that tagging bot from reddit over to lemmey to see how is auguring in bad faith.
How does that change anything? I’m still waiting for you to name a single right that I have that trans people don’t.
It’s a bad faith question, like asking me to “define what a woman is”. It’s called sealioning. Here’s your one good-faith answer.
While I might have most of my rights at the moment, they’re slowly being stripped away in other states and are routinely threatened by the Conservative party on a national level. Some rights under attack are privacy and bodily autonomy. Here’s some helpful info I’m sure will be handwaved away by some moving goalpost: https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024
Its a legitimate question since when was asking questions bad faith? How is privacy a trans issue I would classify it as an everyone problem and yes the bodily autonomy thing is fucked as an adult I should have the right to do whatever the fuck I want with my own body. Wouldnt call these trans issues would call them critical revocation of freedoms issues.
:barks like a sea lion:
I have 1 goddamn question that not sealioning.
If u aren’t gonna take this discussion seriously why should I?
You were taking it seriously?
Sorry, I mean :sea lion bark:
Right? Just like how any gay man has the same right to marry any woman as any straight man!
In my country any gay man can go marry any other gay man if they want. So that’s a problem that’s already been solved as far as my ability to vote is concerned.
in some respects you have a technically correct argument here. The problem is, is that this is like deferring an engineering problem in a bad design because “simply just don’t build it wrong” only for someone to then go and build it wrong, and for it to kill tons of people.
The millennium tower in san fran is a pretty good example of this. Somewhere along the line somebody fucked up. Maybe it was the engineer. Maybe it was the project manager, who knows. Just because they’re all educated and smart people, doesn’t mean they can’t fuck shit up.
Likewise here, technically they have rights, just like everyone else does, but the problem here, is that those equal rights, when compared to everyone, negatively impact only one specific group of people. Much like separate but equal, back during segregation. It’s technically “equal” but it’s still discriminatory.
Actually there millennium tower has always been perfectly safe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY there was no fuckup just unpredicted surrounding geotechnical activity. Trust me I’m an engineer.
Segregation was never equal I don’t currently see any unequal implementation of any rights in regards to trans people (well in the western world). Please explain exactly how the rights we all have are negligibly effecting them compared to everyone else?
Engineer is just a made up title you gave yourself. Explain one thing you know about constructing towers
I do mechanical so not an expert on geotechnical or civil but the video covers the basics related to the tower seems pretty clear cut.
I know that when undertaking a large engineering project each specific system or component is given to the relevant speciality to handle of which you clearly are not part of. I also know that almost all systems have legally mandated factors of safety to account for unpredictable things like idk unexpected Sinkage.
bro you are a fucking mechanical engineer, not a structural engineer, pipe the fuck down.
So what engineering do u do?
that kind that tells me that i should listen to people who actually know what the fuck they’re doing, because they probably know a lot more than i do.
Sounds like you read a Wikipedia article. Sinkage sounds like you made it up. How does that make you an expert on the millennium tower?
Sounds like you read a Wikipedia article.
cos I know what I’m talking about so do the people writing wikipedia.
Never said I was an expert I provided a link to an experts opinion that references the other experts reports. Sinkage typically refers to the downward movement or settling of a structure or foundation into the underlying soil or ground. I don’t need to be an expert on the subject to reference an expert, but if we look at it relativistically compared to you I am an expery.
and relative to me, you are a dumbass who happens to be a mechanical engineer.
Just because i’m a linux user, and understand how the OS functions, doesn’t make me an OS level SWE. That would make me one of the greats, i am not. I am some fuck who uses linux.
Likewise, relatively to you, assuming you don’t use linux, i’m the linux expert here. Even though i have no qualification for such title.
In a capitalist system money is a weapon. You wonder why gay men have been so successful in shifting attitudes? It’s because they have money.
Yet Caitlyn Jenner isn’t exactly using her money to help the trans cause… It requires more than just money, there has to be a political movement and adherents to that movement who have the money and other relevant resources to effect change.
You can’t be serious.
About what? Money being a weapon in a capitalist system?
That it’s the reason gay men changed minds or something?
I reject the idea that supporting some young people must come at the expense of others.
Well…you’re adding transgender athletes at the expense of biological females. It’s hard to take that statement at face value.
Banning all transgender atheletes due to one or two high performers does a dis-service to all transgendered atheletes though.
It’s not all female atheletes who are being disadvantaged, but it WOULD be all transgender atheletes disadvantaged.
I have no problem with transgender atheletes as long as the competition guidelines are clear, obtainable, and the students stay within the guidelines.
If it becomes an issue where all transgender students are repeatedly setting records and such, making it impossible for non-transgendered kids to compete? Then you change the competitive guidelines, you don’t ban an entire class of kids from competing.
For example:
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Must be on puberty blockers for x months or years.
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Must be on proper hormones for x months or years.
Heck, they might even require re-assignment surgery.
The problem with guidelines like this, is the people opposed to trans atheletes are ALSO opposed to puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and re-assignment surgery.
one of the funny things about banning trans people in sports to me, is that sports is literally unfair from the get go. You ever wonder why usain bolt is tall as fuck? You ever seen the skeleton shape of an olympic swimmer? ALL of that shit is entirely abstract, and completely genetically made up.
literally, who cares. It’s all bullshit, you can’t just wake up, and decide to be an olympic level athlete one day. I mean sure you could be pretty good, that’s pretty good.
Also, if it’s “unfair” isn’t that more of an indictment on the institution hosting it itself? College athletes for example. Isn’t it kind of weird that if you can play sports well, you get a free education? I don’t get a free education just because i use linux well.
If it becomes an issue where all transgender students are repeatedly setting records and such
We’re past that point.
There’s simply not a way to take a way a trans-woman’s bone density or muscle mass. Sure they get “weaker” after transitioning, but the effect is exactly the same as someone taking human growth hormone for a couple of years then stopping. The British Journal of sports medicine redacted their recommendation that after 4 years a trans-female could play a woman’s sport with no benefit.
It’s play with the men, or don’t play. I’ve yet to see a men’s league of anything that would stop a woman or trans-athlete from playing if they can make the team. The NFL tries out women all the time. The MLB had a girl make the Cubs for a week or two. Hockey has had women play in the minors.
The other end game argument is we just abolish women’s sports and go to open leagues only. If we want equality and inclusion, that’ll be the end result.
There’s simply not a way to take a way a trans-woman’s bone density or muscle mass.
Sure there is, you apply puberty blockers before they reach that point.
But like I say, the primary complainers about trans atheletes don’t want people using puberty blockers or hormones either.
Their end goal is that they simply want to marginalize trans people so they can pretend they don’t exist.
We’re past that point.
Not really. Trans athletes aren’t the top of every sport, and in a lot of cases where you see complaints, it isn’t even “the trans woman got 1st and I got 2nd!” but “the trans women got 4th and I got 5th!”.
That to me suggests that trans women have no greater advantage than what other genetic traits could confer. When some athletes have abnormalities that make their muscles more efficient, we cheer them on. When a cis woman has abnormally high testosterone levels, we ban her from competing.
It’s all arbitrary and genetic lottery.
When a cis woman has abnormally high testosterone levels, we ban her from competing.
So your solution is to make testosterone doping legal?
but “the trans women got 4th and I got 5th!”.
That’s simply not true. It’s “the trans woman just broke the regional record for X event.”
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And we’re not threatening to kill you, so I guess we’re good
Who’s we? I’ve met plenty of bigots that have voiced that exact threat.
Verbally, to your face you mean?
Yes verbally. It wasn’t directed at me but I was present when it was said with sincerity.
Yikes. Where were you? What kind of crowd and situation was this?
Speaking as a trans person, it’s great that you’re not, but some people definitely are. That said, yes, it sounds like we’re good :)
“hey i might be racist, but at least i don’t lynch people” is not a great look either.
Speaking on the topic, i find the concept of “being anti trans” to be a rather fundamentally obtuse topic. It’s like being anti lion.
I’m a trans man. We don’t have a secret agenda – we’re just asking you to let us live.
That may be true for you, the individual. And a lot of gay/trans “community” are quite frankly embarrassed by a lot of the forceful behavior, public displays, and various in-your-face stuff. Many just want to live their own private life and let alone.
