You know what would be great is if these weird assholes could get to know exactly one trans person and see that they're just people trying to get by like everyone else
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Ahh but see this reduces the freedom of people who have to think about pronouns and might feel somewhat socially pressured to do so. Unlike the other types of liberty the US apparatus is set up to protect now
Missouri GOP held a hearing last night on 7 anti-trans bills. The hearing lasted close to 7 hrs until 12:45 a.m. 100+ Missourians showed up to testify against these bills while 4 or 5 were there in support. Out of 5,486 online testimonies, 5,085 opposed these hateful bills! https://bsky.app/profile/lauraannstl.bsky.social/post/3lhcnm4edqk2m
This!! Trans people are just people, trying to live their lives like everyone else.
They're damn sure no weirder than maga gop making laws forcing people to live by their own sky daddy mythology kink. It's weird to want to control strangers' lives. It's not weird to want to be your authentic self.
The problem is a lot of these weird assholes would then consider them the exception, rather than the rule. No one else has inherent value. People's value is derived from their proximity/relationship to the weird assholes, and whether they agree with the weird assholes' values/hatred of others.
The more they fracture society, the more power and control they have. They usually shout about the 'elites' while they quaff champagne and caviar in the Italian or French villas. Same tactic as Reform, a hedge fund billionaire fight club.
It's all about division & othering. Pick on one that you believe will garner the most support for hateful rhetoric and then move on to the next one. Nothing new. We have had that shit in our billionaire non-dom white wing press for years...migrants, single mothers, unions etc. Hate becomes normal.
Thank you so much I spill my iced coffee on myself while walking my dog like every other regular human person and I just wanted universal healthcare and to end qualified immunity not THE FOURTH REICH
The thing I’ve (been forced to, against my will) learned about bigots is that when they get to know one of the people they’re prejudiced against and discover they like them, they just think of them as an exception and their underlying bigotry remains unshaken
Yep and if that person tries to challenge their bigotry they will no longer be the exception and they will be immediately outcast. Happened with most of my family. 🤷🏼♀️
They don't. I transitioned in 2004. I've used the men's room since the day my beard made a white lady eyeball me in the ladies room. That was 2005.
Not all of us are out and proud, flag wearing trans activists. Many of us are just that guy at work.
Unfortunately, when a lot of people DO meet us, the ways we don't conform to certain standards sometimes disgust them, and they then hate us even more.
Literally all it took to change the mind of my fox addicted transphobe uncle was me coming out. Like, I was not even considering the possibility he’d have anything but a bad reaction. It still boggles my mind how easily he flipped
Femme, be who you want, as safely as you can, we're out here for you, and I hope there are people in your direct orbit immediately there for you too. You don't have to take on the burden of being a "teaching tool"
I mean. I don't HAVE to, but if I don't, who will?
This is about what we owe to each other. If I take this burden, then it doesn't fall to someone else down the line.
And if I hold the door open to to the ignorant without judgement, maybe, just maybe, they will walk through it one day.
That could apply to gay as well. Also, people of colour. Working with different types of people,as I have done, gives you a whole new perspective. You realize they are just people who have families with love and caring.
Agreed. I have family that are non-binary & have had multiple conversations with older generations that you have 2 options.
1 - Accept them, love them, this is who they are.
2 - Accept them, love them, this is who they are right now, they may eventually feel "normal" as the gender they present as.
That's the thing- they already have. They just didn't know it. They act like Trans people are living on another planet or at least several zipcodes away when really it's just Debra the waitress at Denny's they've been mildly flirting with for months.
Hate to say it, but even that's not enough many times. Reagan had many gay friends whose company he enjoyed a lot, and that wasn't enough for him to stop him from selling them up the river during the AIDS crisis. He still liked them, but he didn't care. Many powerful people are just traitorous rats.
Trans rights are human rights! If you're willing to look away when trans rights are taken away, you can't be surprised when people develop that same blindness when it comes down to you.
Those weird assholes assume trans people are the blue-haired, day 3 full-face stubble, 80's prostitute makeup, in a micro mini and bra with a flat chest that right-wing news displays as a monolith.
It's so bad that if you are a passing trans person you might be called a liar if you out yourself
My wife walked in on an anti-trans rant by a walk-in client at her regular salon. She tried to reason with the woman. Even outed herself as an example of how the crazy, angry lady was wrong about trans people.
Crazy lady said my wife must be lying because she was obviously a woman 🙄
The problem is willful ignorance. They're assholes because they're not capable or willing to adapt. They want things to be comfortable and easy for them.
many of them do. elon turned hard to the right when he couldn't accept his trans daughter. most of them can't accept trans people on a personal kevel and so they demand that society not accept us either. because is society accepts us but they don't it makes them look bad for being bigots
Tangential to this point, it's pretty much why they label and gear immigrants, trans folk, etc. as sex predators, even though it's almost always someone you know in your life if that happens. They'll never accept that they let that predator into the inner circle of their life.
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I'm just a guy trying to do right for his family.
Signed,
A trans man
I think they only want the liberty to own AR-15s and to yell slurs 🤔
It's compliance or servitude for every one else.
https://resist.bot/petitions/PJYXCI
https://bsky.app/profile/lauraannstl.bsky.social/post/3lhcnm4edqk2m
They're damn sure no weirder than maga gop making laws forcing people to live by their own sky daddy mythology kink. It's weird to want to control strangers' lives. It's not weird to want to be your authentic self.
Guy like that only sees other human beings as tools.
surprised the fact that shes a murderer doesnt come up more often
Not all of us are out and proud, flag wearing trans activists. Many of us are just that guy at work.
This is about what we owe to each other. If I take this burden, then it doesn't fall to someone else down the line.
And if I hold the door open to to the ignorant without judgement, maybe, just maybe, they will walk through it one day.
1 - Accept them, love them, this is who they are.
2 - Accept them, love them, this is who they are right now, they may eventually feel "normal" as the gender they present as.
it’s inhumane
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Psychopaths.
Like, why make existence harder for anyone?
And how does someone not following your arbitrary beliefs make existence harder for you?
It's so bad that if you are a passing trans person you might be called a liar if you out yourself
Crazy lady said my wife must be lying because she was obviously a woman 🙄
Any excuse, any way they can wave you off, they will. Including making shit up.
They want to put a stop to the trans groomer monolith built up in their heads and all the logic and reason you have isn't going to change their minds.
Exposure isn't their problem.
The abstract idea of some strange person you know nothing about shouldn't induce frothing hatred.