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blunderfulguy United States1415 Posts November 21 2020 02:26 GMT #2 Thanks for posting this.

Anc13nt 1557 Posts November 21 2020 04:15 GMT #3 It's interesting to me how so much of the negative discourse towards trans people parallels the past arguments used against homosexuals and going further back, black people. Conservatives, with remarkable efficiency, have shifted the discourse from being about giving trans people the basic dignity and respect they deserve to being about ridiculous issues like transgenders in washrooms and trans-woman athletes in women's sports. They turn treating trans people with basic respect (like not mis-gendering them) into a free-speech issue. They speak as if it is harmful to redefine gender to accommodate for trans people even though not too long ago, the word "marriage" changed to accommodate for homosexual relationships. And that to say nothing of the fact that the word "marriage" has been gradually stripped of much of its religious connotation. I've even seen a new unholy union of IDW followers, TERFs and conservatives who say that acknowledging the legitimacy of transgenderism somehow not only harms the integrity of the concept of womanhood but also harms the legal protections afforded to women (basically a wild slippery slope argument). It reminds me of how some people said that homosexuality would lead to bestiality, that gays were sexual predators, that they brought HIV upon all of us, that they are redefining marriage from union between man and woman, etc. What I meant earlier by parallels is that just like with homosexuals, they discredit transgender people by talking about how they represent some vague but massive long term threat to civilization and the English language, how they are confused and delusional, how many of them are sexual predators. The worst part is that for quite some time most people actually bought into this bullshit and many of the people who have learned their lesson about homosexuals still subscribe to similar forms of poor argumentation so long as it is applied towards transgender people. On one hand it shouldn't be surprising that anti-trans people use these unoriginal, tired arguments but one would think at some conservatives would have learned their lesson after being wrong so many times.

EsportsJohn United States4883 Posts November 21 2020 05:30 GMT #4 Well said. I'm incredibly lucky to be transitioning in a very liberal US city (Los Angeles) with easy access to care and incredibly inclusive employers and coworkers, but in most places it's very dangerous to be trans. There's still so much misinformation and confusion about what being trans means, and as a result, trans people get a lot of hate for just existing, much of which gets internalized. For many people, the internal and external pressure of transphobia is so crippling that they never transition and instead live a life of complete misery. Thousands of children live with repressed trans identities and watch as their bodies are destroyed by hormones that do not match their gender identity, and for people who transition later in life (me), it becomes a costly affair to undo a lot of that damage. I believe strongly in education on trans issues, partially because I never received any of that education and as a result repressed my identity until 29 years old when I first allowed myself to ACTUALLY research what being trans was, and partially because allyship and understanding of gender dysphoria is paramount in reducing violence and transphobic pressures which ruin and end lives prematurely. If anyone has any questions regarding trans people and trans identities, I am seriously open to answering any questions and concerns out there.

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