To my ill-informed brain, it seems hypocritical to tell a minor they're too young to drink alcohol or drive a car, but they're totally ready to make irreversible alterations to their body. I'm no expert here, so I'd love to hear some perspectives on this line of reasoning. What am I missing?
we dont let them drink cause their liver cant handle it- we dont let them drive cause cars are made with the assumption youre an adult so the pedals are too far and the windows wont be as helpful for a child driver
that kind of reason doesnt exist for their own body. .
to compare what I mean going into sports- is the same thing as transitioning in very literal ways youre building your body to be the kinda thing you want it to be. and that kinda decision is made young- and the result is if they make it they could come out of sports with massive head and knee issues
you're missing that most minors are granted reversible options to transition, such as name and pronouns change, new wardrobe, new haircut, and puberty blockers.
anything more extreme is rare and done with the advice of a medical professional, and we don't need to stick our noses in their business.
And puberty blockers are reversible. You stop taking them and the flood gates open and the hormones that do puberty start going again. Completely reversible. It's like putting a freeze on it. Putting a cork into a hole.
Any permanent change is only done on the advice of a medical professional, and except in very extreme cases of neglect or abuse, with the consent of at least one parent.
Fear, misunderstanding, and discomfort have fueled the backlash. But what if, instead of arguing, we listened? What if we asked, "How can we move forward together?"
4. Damn, even REAGAN thought gay people could teach their kids, why does it matter what someone's gender is? Some freaks are really "worried" someone might tell their kid that trans people EXIST without THE PARENTS' "permission"!
1. Some people are trans and some aren't. It's not hard
2. No one should care about someone else's "biology" especially when it's in their pants and not yours
3. Kids don't NEED HRT or blockers to transition. It's as easy as making a decision and sticking to it. The first change is mental
I would agree in principle with that. However. I am aware that, in the UK at least, the psychological screening for people seeking to transition (incl children) is quite minimal. This from 2 trans people. How long have you felt like a m/f? How long have you been presenting as m/f? Are you accepted?
We don't hear much about those who have transitioned (or begun down that route) and then come to regret their decision. Perhaps in part due to the lack of thorough counselling at the outset.
Shut up, dumbass! Phobia doesn't just mean "irrational fear" it also means "strong aversion" and even then you do sound scared of Trans people because of how much you don't want them to exist!
Ah, the conservative art of being wrong on so many fronts that it's hard to pick where to start correcting them.
Even if "phobia" did just mean fear and they weren't afraid of us that wouldn't mean they're not transphobic because words aren't just the sum of their parts. Usage evolves over time.
Every sane military person I know doesn't care if someone is Trans. They care if you can fire in the right direction and not get everyone else killed in the process. The freak out about trans people in the military is only from people who I wouldn't trust with a water gun.
#supporttranssoldiers
No, no, a hundred times no. Children cannot consent to a gender affirmation surgery. It's okay if a boy like lipstick and dresses and a girl likes to act macho, but surgery is a serious step. Wait until they're 18, please!
Also, why are you concerned about something that literally doesn't affect you?
For example, there are plenty of people who raise their children in ways that I don't like, but I'm not gonna stop them because I know it's their legal right.
Is it necessary for a child to receive gender affirmation surgery? No. Is it necessary to remove cancer tumors. Yes. That's all. Hormones and surgery, that I'm not too sure of. Let kids understand themselves first. If they still feel this way 18 years later, then let them go ahead. That's all.
Nice sleight of hand there to add in hormones as well.
Simple question, why are you not okay with a trans teen getting the hormones they want, but you are okay with a trans teen going through puberty which gives them the hormones they don't want?
Both are irreversable after all.
Because then they're not living life according to OPs rules, silly goose!
The way people act like an 8 year old can bop into a doctors office and just ask for gender affirming surgery & hormones and bop out with an appointment for surgery boggles me. It like they're incapable of critical thinking.
I'm okay if the parent and child have come to the conclusion that surgery is the only way. I'm not too sure though because surgery is an irreversible step. It's best to let kids fully understand themselves first. That's all I'm saying. What you do with your kid is your matter, at the end of the day.
So if a parent and teenage child go to a doctor, and the parties involved conclude that it's best for the child to start medically transitioning while being well-informed about the effects and risks, that'd be okay?
Oh hey, cool username. No, as I've gone down this section I've come tho the conclusion that it's okay, as long as the parent approves, and the child understands the consequences. F*** the Daily Wire, I read the Guardian! 💪🏾😎🏳️⚧️
Oh! OK then. I'm sorry for cussing you out like that, I guess my hackles are constantly up these days. That's no excuse though. Thank you for elaborating on your stance on this.
Nah, I assumed that surgical procedures are fully open, and that anyone could do it. I'm glad it isn't. Regret is a powerful emotion that could lead to suicide. I just don't like that. But yes, if the kid says "I want to change" then the parent must at least listen.
Transition means everything from social transition (new name, pronoun use, dress) to hormone therapy to surgery. Saying "kids should be allowed to transition" does not only refer to surgery. In fact surgical transition in minors are so rare it's basically nonexistent.
Please educate yourself.
This is what I am trying to tell my kid. Trans people existed before HRT, etc. And while I am 100% supportive of name change/pronouns, etc etc - i cant support serious body modifications while they are still a kid. Not a nosejob, no boobjob, etc. Am I a transphobe?
Surgical transition is not the same as elective cosmetic surgery.
The only time a minor is surgically transitioned is when their dysphoria is so severe that it will actually risk their life to wait until they're 18. If you see this and still think that teen should be banned from transition, then yes
forcing a child to go endure the wrong puberty because you are against HRT - which, at that age, is puberty blockers to delay puberty: it's not permanent! - does make you a transphobe, yes.
I am not saying that's your stance, but what you said is vague enough to state it.
most of the pearl-clutching against transitioning minors are actually non-issues. kids don't get proper HRT unless in severe cases, they get puberty blockers. they don't get surgery, except in severe cases. transition for kids is primarily name changes/haircuts/clothes.
What do you mean "severe cases." My kiddo is 15 and asking for surgery. They have transitioned socially. Admittedly, I dont know anything about medical transitioning.
Yeah... Not reading that. I'm sorry if this opinion makes me "a rightwing fascist deadset on ruling the world", I'm just being pragmatic. Surgery is a serious step, and regrets can be made. Ask anyone who's regretted a tubectomy or a boob job. Irreversible.
The only one? Nah, I somehow found another person like that below. I came here to understand and somehow only one person made me understand. Hope you mute me though, we may not agree on many things!
Regret rates for gender reassignment surgery is lower than for knee replacement.
They aren't just handing out surgeries, there is a long process with lots of mental healthcare involved. Again, just educate yourself for 5 minutes please.
Wait 18 years. That's all. I don't care about rates. Statistics are based on feelings that are ephemeral. Take the happiness index, for eg. But, what do I know? All I am is some guy who went through this same confusion for 18 years until I finally figured out I'm straighter than a bamboo stalk.
Do you feel the same about young girls who have to get mastectomies? They should wait until they're 18 to decide because minors can't consent to surgery and it's irreversible?
So if after years of mental health treatment and attempting several other treatments for dysphoria the medical team, parents, and patient all decide that surgery is the only treatment that will work and the 16 year old is suicidal, your answer is to just tell them "wait 2 years"?
This opinion just makes you an idiot as it's been pointed out you're pulling your hair out here over nothing. Though I guess if you just never read responses you never have to confront your own bigotry. Though it does raise the question of why you're bothering to vent your spleen in the first place.
Just because you don't understand what those words mean and your reading comprehension is so poor you can't determine the context they're being used in doesn't make them empty, it just makes you dumb. Though that does get at the question of why you're venting your spleen, you're a bigoted troll.
No one is demanding it, except for the youths themselves.
Jazz Jennings and Kim Petras are two famous examples of people who had surgery as minors. I’ve encountered others in my 25 years in the community. It happens.
People seem to not understand this. I'm intersex, I literally had to transition BECAUSE they gave me unnecessary surgery as a baby. I'm not even the only trans person I know with this problem.
I've heard stories of vile men catching and cutting off the gentialia of young boys that were abandoned by their families, but never due to unnecessary surgery. You learn something new every day!
You had to? Thats interesting, actually. I would love to hear the rest but unfortunately this comment section is hellbent on burning me at the stake...
I had to go through social and physical transition entirely because they made that choice for me. I wouldn't have minded the genitalia I was born with, but the hospital robbed that from me at birth.
I was born with both sets of genitalia. If I were given the choice, I would have chosen to be raised as a girl, but they chose boy for me and sewed up my vulva soon after I was born. I grew small breasts during puberty, but I didn't know anything was different about me until later in life.
I see. Terrible, but in life, some choices can't be made by us unfortunately. Not the school we go to, the society we live in, or whom we live with, until we're adults. Hope you're now comfortable in your own skin!
With that they mean they look at the person's personality and what the person achieves in life tho, you misunderstand it I think. I don't see that as racism at all, in Europe it's a good thing to say that, it means they value you as a person instead of anything else. But then again, Europe isn't NA.
In North America, "I don't see colour" means that you're also blind to the structural oppression and marginalisation of different groups, while minimising the privilege and social advantage the speaker holds. Its extremely distasteful here 🙂
Ok, well we don't discriminate black people here, we also didn't enslave black people, muslims tho is a different story, they ARE getting discriminated. I understand your point.
One of these days, I'll actually figure out whether its worth it or not to argue with some of the people who make comments trying to argue against these comics.
But not today it seems roflmao.
Like many other aspects of life, hitting 18 before making major changes to your body should absolutely be a thing. Wait for your mind and body to fully develop first.
I wouldn't trust a school-age child or teenager to know what tattoo they would want for the rest of their lives; changing gender is quite a bit more involved than that. BUT, they aren't my kids, and I don't need to have a say in how they live, and they can always de-transition. I wish them luck.
No one is cutting anything off. You can't even *get* those surgeries until *after* you turn 18.
Hells, you can't even start HRT without talking to multiple therapists ans psychiatrists and get -their- "approval" to even start -puberty blockers.- GTFO of here with that nonsense.
don't really care about your sexual identity issues since the Nazis are taking over. Please stop. Get real with what will actually kill you and stop making discuss every nuisance of someone's sexual thoughts. Get a friend!
"I don't care about your issues, the nazis are coming"
The nazis literally actively killed queer folk the first time and have been calling for it continuously since. So yeah it genuinely is a nazi issue but go off.
You have it twisted if you don't see "transitioning to be yourself" and "acting as themselves" as different enough things in causing suicidality. All of it causes suicidality.
No it does, denial of Transition healthcare massively increases suicidality by an enormous degree, if Transition care can be obtained than it massively decreases Suicidality to much closer to the average rate for the age group
Otherwise, wouldn't JUST the biology and physical appearance dictate someone's gender??? Not how they feel, act, present themselves, and otherwise interact with the world? M
My dick doesn't make me a man. My belief I am does.
Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.
Remember kids- they cite "Common sense" because they cant say its good sense. use the same argument your mom did- if your friends were jumping off a bridge ;do you follow them?
The only thing that should be mandatory is educating yourself and your kids on what it means to transition. Understanding the risks and the benefits is the most important thing.
I would like to know what transphobes think of animals that transition in the wild? Sometimes between genders a few times in their lifetime. The only difference is our bodies can’t do it without help but science allows us to.
People tried to ban books about marine biology because male seahorses have the "mother" role (incubating eggs) and that apparently is beyond their comprehension already, let alone species that change sex
When was that (about seahorses). I was a Zoology major in the mid 70s and there was no controversy about seahorses. Or are they controversial now because some people would like to say seahorses are relevant somehow to humans?
A phobia is an intense, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.
The fear is significantly out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the object or situation.
People around me are -actively- saying these things. I was talking about flags with this one choir lady for her church (she bought dowel rods to make them at my store) and she went off on a kinda transphopic rant and said, "but God taught me not to hate!"
Idk, I think it's more annoyance and attempt at education (let's be honest, transphobes refuse to learn) that saying "I'm not transphobic, but-" followed by transphobia is -just- like saying "I'm not racist, but-" and saying something racist.
It's good to know for allies what is okay and not.
The third one does make sense, children should be able to identify as trans if 13 or older, under that age, they're unable to understand the concet, meaning it wouldn't be really a transition. kids are not capable of understanding such 'til a cretain age is reached.
Must inform you I was experiencing Gender Dysphoria before I was even fucking eight years old.
The idea that kids can't understand that sort of thing before a certain age is FUCKING BULLSHIT.
I'll leave it to others to decide whether or not its also transphobic bullshit, stead of just regular bs.
How do you know it was at 8?
You could've just been influenced by people around you. But kids in general do not have the ability to understand such concepts.
Kids are oftentimes smarter than many adults give them credit for.
As for how I know I was having it before I was eight, maybe its the fact that I had fantasies about changing into a girl? And about wanting to be pretty like girls were? Wear dresses because that's what girls did?
that's called body disphoria, where you compare yourself to a girl and want a body like that. you aren't supposed to check such before the ages 13 and older, and you don't need to be a girl to get it.
While you apparently want to judge me, my lifelong friend (over 55 years) recently passed. He was Black and spent the last 4 years of his life residing in my home. He both educated and protected my children. This was a privilege both provided to him and performed for me.
HE was a human loss.
But if he wanted to transition to being a she, then they would no longer be a human to you? No matter the lifelong friendship? And would no longer be welcome around your kids? And if your grandchild you love so much were to transition? What then?
If one of my grandchildren were to choose to do so, they would have to live with the same restrictions.
This is not a 'mine is okay, yours is not' situation. It is a public acceptance situation.
I have, more than once, blocked outside the men's room door while a female used the facility.
If a female goes into a male restroom and you the restrict access, where do they go to piss then, in the female restroom? Or are you restricting access to a male restroom because a female is in a female restroom?
Their humanity would not change.
Their human rights would not change.
The argument was brought up about airline bathrooms during congressional debates. It was noted that while shared bathrooms, bathrooms were not shared. An agreeable (to me) solution.
Airline bathrooms? With multiple stalls? Are people not allowed to use the bathroom at the same time even though there are other stalls? In the military we didn't care what you had between your legs, you need to shit then go shit.
You may not believe this, but I do believe in an individual's right to do as they choose. But as with any other actions, there are consequences. If I am not told, I can't react. If I am told, a reaction is sought and will be forthcoming.
I appreciate your thoughts, but I cannot agree with them.
Many Black and Asian people feel as I do (personal experience.)
Race and ethnicity are not controllable. An individual who chooses a medical procedure, does so at their discretion.
If I'm not told, how would I know (or care?)
Transphobia includes:
- denying the validity of trans identity
- persecuting trans people for existing
- spreading misinformation about trans people
- being ignorant about transgender people
- preventing trans kids from having gender-affirming care.
There are trans people who would love to help you in that fight. Do you think they can if their rights are infringed, or if the people they’d fight alongside against would rather they were dead?
What I don't understand is... why does anyone care so much? What I mean is, why are you all dwelling on children's genitalia so much? You have to stop talking about kids crotches, it's not appropriate... or necessary.
Kids can’t reliably report symptoms, and eventual physical reversion can’t stop them being psychologically harmed by suppressing their puberty for up to 10 years. We protect kids from big choices—like voting or drinking—for a reason. This should be no different, even if it’s hard
Making me feel better about cutting contact with my mom. She'd been saying she can love my kid even though she doesn't agree with thier decision. I'm like actually you can't! Respect is part of love.
I sit at morning coffee next to a table of magats must be karma for being a bad boy in my youth but I hear this BS basically everyday and think what they bring is grooming hate for their children our community our world
The US trans population is about 1%
Most Americans have never met a trans person
Yet MAGA/tRump/Republicans are conditioning 99% of Us to fear and hate 1% of Us
1% is about how many people have celiac disease. It's not as uncommon as it sounds. The number also undoubtedly rises as it becomes more acceptable to come out.
When 1% are being demonized, it's not wrong to focus on them. "We" didn't put a crosshair on people just because they exist. Maybe, just maybe, don't blame the victims.
Oh, I absolutely agree that we should stand up for them. But there are lots of people being demonized right now. Our very institutions are under siege. Americans are fatigued by democratic messaging. Attacking regular normie Joe because he is ignorant is not messaging Americans need right now.
I understand what you are saying. I even agree, to an extent. But what would help Trans people the most? More pointed memes that ostracize normie american voters, or winning elections?
Yes. Trying to keep kids from being exposed to "bad people" is comically not how America works, not how the Internet works, not how children work. Also, overall, not how biology works, not how puberty works, not how gender affirming care works, not how medical agency works, not how grooming works
If you replace "trans people" with some other group, it all suddenly sounds wrong, doesn't it?
"I don't think kids should be taught by black men, that doesn't make me a racist".
Even low-balling the number of people one would meet in their lifetime at 10k as some stats show, compared to others showing entire digits higher, and using your low estimate of 1%, that's still 100 people that are trans the average person would meet.
how many redheads have you met in your life?
the percentage of trans people and redheads in the world is roughly the same. and at that, it's probably a low-reported number due to lack of acceptance/fear of being openly trans.
ALSO, a higher concentration of redheads live in one region of the world.
Why are YOU getting upset about this if YOU are unlikely to need to worry about it 🤔 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Gonna add extra clarification. It's less than 1% of transitioners AND trans people already make up less than 3% of the population. So it's less than 1% OF a 3%. Such a miniscule number.
actually i have another question, i talked with people when they detrannsition and all said that the person who helped them transition will not help them detransition and got kicked out.
Sounds like a bunch of crap from you because I've heard the exact opposite. Including many detransitioners saying they aren't "not trans" as much as they are sick of gender roles on either side of the coin being imposed on them in modern society and they simply want to exist without gender barriers
Because of people like you telling them they don't exist or shouldn't exist? That they're all rapists and pedos? Saying they're lying about who they are? LITERALLY making it illegal to exist as a trans person?? Why tf do you think any oppressed minority is suicidal??
first of all, take deep breaths, clear your head from all that anger texting and think. ok, i don't tell people what to do, i help them think and see clearer. There is a lot of force transitioning, people being aggressive and general fighting about what is right and wrong.
Beer, smoking, and tattoos aren't gender specific. Two of those three are also actively harmful, and the third is legal regardless of if you personally would allow it.
Do you think teens should be outlawed and parents prosecuted for letting their teen kids get tattoos they want?
Hormone blockers are also used on cis kids and statistically more often on cis kids....do those kids no longer deserve to have access to that care despite there being no evidence of it being harmful? They also don't cause irreparable damage, blockers can simply be stopped and puberty continues...
I'd recommend to anyone meeting a transphobe so into the "mutilating children" discourse or the "what's in your pants" thing, to ask them "why are you so interested in other people, especially children's, genitalia? What's in YOUR pants then?"
Often it shuts idiots off.
Male and female are epigenetics that can be hindered by conditions in the womb, sure, various chromosomal variations exist, but genetically, we pretty much are one sex, we just epigenetically evolve to something or other.
Cause then what's stopping a child from having a nose job? boob job? I mean we can't just allow SOME "children" to realize their ideal physical appearance and not others...
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that kind of reason doesnt exist for their own body. .
anything more extreme is rare and done with the advice of a medical professional, and we don't need to stick our noses in their business.
Even the puberty blockers are done with the advice of not just a medical professional but also the advice of therapists.
And it takes a long time to do any of this process. Minors are NOT getting sex change surgeries.
Fear, misunderstanding, and discomfort have fueled the backlash. But what if, instead of arguing, we listened? What if we asked, "How can we move forward together?"
https://open.substack.com/pub/amymoore50/p/bridging-the-divide-understanding?r=3upaa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2. No one should care about someone else's "biology" especially when it's in their pants and not yours
3. Kids don't NEED HRT or blockers to transition. It's as easy as making a decision and sticking to it. The first change is mental
But yeah
Shut up, dumbass! Phobia doesn't just mean "irrational fear" it also means "strong aversion" and even then you do sound scared of Trans people because of how much you don't want them to exist!
Even if "phobia" did just mean fear and they weren't afraid of us that wouldn't mean they're not transphobic because words aren't just the sum of their parts. Usage evolves over time.
#supporttranssoldiers
Here's for Colorado:
https://hcpf.colorado.gov/gac-manual#surgProc
For example, there are plenty of people who raise their children in ways that I don't like, but I'm not gonna stop them because I know it's their legal right.
Yes, refusing your child gender affirming care is child abuse.
Refusing gender affirming care also causes suicide rates to skyrocket.
Refusing gender affirming care is literally killing kids.
Simple question, why are you not okay with a trans teen getting the hormones they want, but you are okay with a trans teen going through puberty which gives them the hormones they don't want?
Both are irreversable after all.
The way people act like an 8 year old can bop into a doctors office and just ask for gender affirming surgery & hormones and bop out with an appointment for surgery boggles me. It like they're incapable of critical thinking.
Classic example of pedos not understanding what they’re fighting against
Oh, and yes, you're a transphobe.
You and your idiot big mouth have 0% say in what other people's children do, so knock it the fuck off.
Keep this for your kids... while they still talk to you, that is.
Spoiler alert: IT DOESNT HAPPEN!!
Please educate yourself.
The only time a minor is surgically transitioned is when their dysphoria is so severe that it will actually risk their life to wait until they're 18. If you see this and still think that teen should be banned from transition, then yes
I am not saying that's your stance, but what you said is vague enough to state it.
- refuses to read it, decides it must be calling them fascist
- claims to be the only pragmatic one in the conversation
You're an easy account to mute at least.
Stop being a fucking pervert obsessed with kids genitals
It’s people like you who need to be locked up and kept away from kids
You’re doing it
And don’t even say I’m doing it too. Because I’m just doing it to call you out.
They aren't just handing out surgeries, there is a long process with lots of mental healthcare involved. Again, just educate yourself for 5 minutes please.
Essentially the wellbeing of 1 cis kid who regrets treatment is more important to you than the wellbeing of 99 trans kids who need it.
No one is demanding that trans children undergo surgery, it just isn't a thing.
It was never a thing.
Jazz Jennings and Kim Petras are two famous examples of people who had surgery as minors. I’ve encountered others in my 25 years in the community. It happens.
penguins can have two dads
fish can change gender
-I'm not a racist, just a race realist
-I'm not homophobe, its just that homosexuality is unnatural
-I'm not xenophobic, they're just coming from a barbaric culture and need to be civilized before being let in
While failing to understand that this is an incredibly racist thing to say...
My son was 11. It was quite easy to explain to him, that she wanted her outside to match her inner self.
But not today it seems roflmao.
Hells, you can't even start HRT without talking to multiple therapists ans psychiatrists and get -their- "approval" to even start -puberty blockers.- GTFO of here with that nonsense.
-You
The nazis literally actively killed queer folk the first time and have been calling for it continuously since. So yeah it genuinely is a nazi issue but go off.
No. no I would not.
Not letting people transition doesn't cause them to commit suicide, bullying and not allowing them to act themselves does.
My dick doesn't make me a man. My belief I am does.
Thank you.
Me:
Murrica needs to get with the times.
Seahorses are too woke and teach the "wrong" gender roles
Alternatives are fine though if its the persons choice
The fear is significantly out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the object or situation.
It's sadly not rage bait, but facts.
Why would we be mad at Sophia? Why is that a phrase you said that sounds very much like a paradox?
And, imo, if it gets the transphobes commenting and outing themselves, it just let's me block them that much easier.
It's good to know for allies what is okay and not.
The idea that kids can't understand that sort of thing before a certain age is FUCKING BULLSHIT.
I'll leave it to others to decide whether or not its also transphobic bullshit, stead of just regular bs.
You could've just been influenced by people around you. But kids in general do not have the ability to understand such concepts.
As for how I know I was having it before I was eight, maybe its the fact that I had fantasies about changing into a girl? And about wanting to be pretty like girls were? Wear dresses because that's what girls did?
Puberty blockers have been shown to make a difference in the mental health of numerous trans folks as they grow up.
But regardless of how much you may believe otherwise, you cannot change personal beliefs.
A trans-person is not welcome in a bathroom with my grandchild.
Are black people welcome in bathrooms with your grandchildren?
You can say "no" if you want, but you have to accept that makes you a racist and a segregationist.
HE was a human loss.
This is not a 'mine is okay, yours is not' situation. It is a public acceptance situation.
I have, more than once, blocked outside the men's room door while a female used the facility.
Their human rights would not change.
The argument was brought up about airline bathrooms during congressional debates. It was noted that while shared bathrooms, bathrooms were not shared. An agreeable (to me) solution.
Many Black and Asian people feel as I do (personal experience.)
Race and ethnicity are not controllable. An individual who chooses a medical procedure, does so at their discretion.
If I'm not told, how would I know (or care?)
- denying the validity of trans identity
- persecuting trans people for existing
- spreading misinformation about trans people
- being ignorant about transgender people
- preventing trans kids from having gender-affirming care.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. 🏳️⚧️⚧️
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/26/1131398960/gender-affirming-care-trans-puberty-suppression-teens
you don't "get over" dysphoria, that's not how anything fucking works
Said by people who doesn't understand shit about biology....
Most Americans have never met a trans person
Yet MAGA/tRump/Republicans are conditioning 99% of Us to fear and hate 1% of Us
Maybe, juuuust maybe, there's a correlation there.
To understand why people are trans, you need to get into the more complex stuff.
"I don't think kids should be taught by black men, that doesn't make me a racist".
So...
Yeah.
the percentage of trans people and redheads in the world is roughly the same. and at that, it's probably a low-reported number due to lack of acceptance/fear of being openly trans.
ALSO, a higher concentration of redheads live in one region of the world.
Do you think teens should be outlawed and parents prosecuted for letting their teen kids get tattoos they want?
It’s your body, do with it what you want.
Often it shuts idiots off.
That's an across the board thing that's independent of trans rights.
Transitions start social, but you'd know that if you knew -anything- about trans people.
https://youtu.be/oG6fayQBm9w?si=P3JsKtV82bq2I07i
the one character who looks a bit like a psycho in that cartoon is a bit of a psycho...