The possibility there might be a trans girl on a high school sports team? Consequential Someone going "I prefer the pronoun 'they'" when called "him" or "her"? Consequential Federal government treating ~2m trans people in the US as less-than, imposing discriminatory policy? Inconsequential Insane - ThreadSky

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The possibility there might be a trans girl on a high school sports team?
Consequential

Someone going "I prefer the pronoun 'they'" when called "him" or "her"?
Consequential

Federal government treating ~2m trans people in the US as less-than, imposing discriminatory policy?
Inconsequential

Insane

Reposted from Osita Nwanevu

Even one of the takes expressing revulsion at the treatment of trans people also says that the administration's policies aren't consequential because they affect a small population. Would anyone say the same about the explicit persecution of an ethnic or religious minority? This is extraordinary.

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datafourmiles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Many people feel that it doesn’t impact them, they don’t care.

unhipcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stack: year of our lord
Me: fuck off

borntodance.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all inconsequential until you’re the victim of it yourself or someone you care about.

massdisillusion.bsky.social•1 day ago

disgusting.

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trans people might be less than 1% of the US population, but that still translates to well over a million Americans (probably over 2m, estimates vary).

To put that number in perspective, FIRE's database of deplatformings—a national free speech crisis, remember?—lists 734 cases total, over 27 years.

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you don't object on principle to government discrimination against trans people because that's directly targeting "only" about 2 million people in the US—and you really should, but if you've decided it doesn't hurt enough people to be consequential—then at least think of "First they came for..."

shawnconnery.bsky.social•1 day ago

The whole numerical game play is insane - it does not matter, no one no matter how small or large the constituency should be targeted by the government.

joshhutchinson.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it were just one person, it's our duty to be compassionate and to turn that compassion into action. We have to stand together, or we are not a society.

rabidhatchet.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you're a minority, please use to full effect the 2A

jwitmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

As the US approached 100,000 COVID deaths, the NYT headline called it an “incalculable loss,” which it was.

The government erasing the identity of 2,000,000 trans people, however

edwarddavid.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, although it needs to be said that this is how the strategy of division works, being put in the position of defending a persecuted minority and then framed as if gender issues are something that Democrats are otherwise obsessed with, (beyond the basic issue of personal freedom).

hughmurnaghan.bsky.social•1 day ago

They would never suggest that, in the context of the population of continental Europe 1939-1945, that targeting Jews, Sinti, Poles, etc., for execution should be considered inconsequential, against the wider war, because it was "only" c8-10 million...

Discrimination is discrimination.

smullins3000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, yes, the poor treatment of Milo is consequential. /s

roselynn82.bsky.social•1 day ago

OMG‼️why
Can’t you
Just LEAVE THEM ALONE
THEYRE NOT AFTER
YOU ‼️‼️

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