I swear we can turn around the anti-trans moral panic by quit defending trans people, and start interrogating why they're so obsessed and keep all the focus on that.
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Anything they say should be met with "be a man/adult and live and let live." or "that's culture war rage bait you're repeating, what's the deeper reason you're so weird about trans people?
Keep the focus on them and their person issues. this might not change their mind... but they might start getting afraid to express their transphobia if it makes them look like the strange one.
Tbf all these arguments are always about making *other people* see them. It doesn't matter what the person you're interacting with thinks. The goal is to make everyone *else* see the transphobe as a weirdo.
It's really true, turning it back on them and just starting with "That's a really weird thing to say/thank, what's wrong with you?" is actually really effective against bigotry.
The entire mania is so fucked up to me- especially in the supposedly fancy free US diaspora. What is free about policing someone's identity? Isnt it nerd shit to start talking about people in terms of XY chromosomes or whatever? What fucking business is it of there's!
In a world where there’s so much emphasis on gender differences, I feel like it’s a natural outcome. It’s not just transphobia men today or more insecure than ever about their masculinity.
IMO its a natural consequence of this bizzare gender hierarchy (patriarchy) and exposure to world cultures. The male centric tendency contending with the 'male roles' of other places fracturing the self image of many cis men. Plus the roll of dogma and capitalism. exhausting, i just live to play.
It’s a fashy appeal to “natural law”, a thing they made up and are sure of its truth. That way, no matter how nice or pleasant or pretty we are, we’re still criminals of the natural order. It’s fascism at its core.
If Kamala's team stuck with the "These people are weirdos/creeps" campaign she probably would have had a better shot at winning, or at the very least it could have made republicans more self conscious.
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That’s one reason why maga leaders likes those kind of people so much.
And if they can manipulate them, so can we.
Nobody's forcing you to be trans if you don't want to be!