(Just as an aside, as I came back here to comment a pop-up asked me to share this article on other social media with the question, "What do you think of when you see Steve QJ?" and showed the photo of the white transfemme whatever guy with the beard. So...I declined to share it, but only because...well, you don't remind me of THAT! LOL)
(Just as an aside, as I came back here to comment a pop-up asked me to share this article on other social media with the question, "What do you think of when you see Steve QJ?" and showed the photo of the white transfemme whatever guy with the beard. So...I declined to share it, but only because...well, you don't remind me of THAT! LOL)
Good point that 'Christians' have a long strong history of resisting human rights. They will one day come to accept the alphabet-soup gang (sorry, it's a convenient label) and folks who are genuinely trans although I suspect there will be a reverse transition in the future (how big, I'm not sure, but I'm quite sure at least some folks are doing it because it's fashionable, or for some fairly fucked-up reasons involving not wanting to live in a misogynist or homophobic world). But, I'm with you on, "Live your life as authentically as you can." It's no skin off my nose what people want to look like and call themselves, as long as it's not some guy who's been a woman for like 45 minutes who thinks he knows more about being a woman than I do (the inherent narcissism and male privilege in at least some of these trans'women' is something I've challenged on Medium).
Not all Christians will come aboard, obviously...nor Jews nor Muslims nor other religions who are still more than a little fucked up about sex and gender. But...the more rational-minded ones will.
"I suspect there will be a reverse transition in the future"
Yeah, it's already happening. Particularly among young women who transitioned to male and regretted it. It's verboten to talk about this of course, but it's pretty much impossible to deny that a significant number of young girls are transitioning due to social factors (peer pressure, social contagion, group identity, conformity) rather than gender dysphoria. The "affirmation at al costs" model of trans care is badly failing these girls.
But yes, on an individual level, opposition to trans rights is a mystery. Same as with same-sex marriage or any number of other topics. The amount of time and energy some people invest in what other people are doing with their lives is bizarre.
My only concern when it come to trans rights are, as I said, the areas where trans rights intersect with women's rights (sports, prisons, single-sex spaces, etc.). And the way we approach care for young kids who are figuring out their identity. The idea that, for example, children should be able to get access to cross-sex hormones without any parental intervention is a huge minefield. And while I understand the reason trans activists support this, it's ridiculous to pretend that this isn't also fraught with problems, as the de-transitioning teenagers I mentioned will attest to.
Religious groups are always going to be behind the curve on issues like these. That's unavoidable I think. We've long been in territory as a society that a millennia old book wasn't prepared to offer guidance on.
(Just as an aside, as I came back here to comment a pop-up asked me to share this article on other social media with the question, "What do you think of when you see Steve QJ?" and showed the photo of the white transfemme whatever guy with the beard. So...I declined to share it, but only because...well, you don't remind me of THAT! LOL)
Good point that 'Christians' have a long strong history of resisting human rights. They will one day come to accept the alphabet-soup gang (sorry, it's a convenient label) and folks who are genuinely trans although I suspect there will be a reverse transition in the future (how big, I'm not sure, but I'm quite sure at least some folks are doing it because it's fashionable, or for some fairly fucked-up reasons involving not wanting to live in a misogynist or homophobic world). But, I'm with you on, "Live your life as authentically as you can." It's no skin off my nose what people want to look like and call themselves, as long as it's not some guy who's been a woman for like 45 minutes who thinks he knows more about being a woman than I do (the inherent narcissism and male privilege in at least some of these trans'women' is something I've challenged on Medium).
Not all Christians will come aboard, obviously...nor Jews nor Muslims nor other religions who are still more than a little fucked up about sex and gender. But...the more rational-minded ones will.
"I suspect there will be a reverse transition in the future"
Yeah, it's already happening. Particularly among young women who transitioned to male and regretted it. It's verboten to talk about this of course, but it's pretty much impossible to deny that a significant number of young girls are transitioning due to social factors (peer pressure, social contagion, group identity, conformity) rather than gender dysphoria. The "affirmation at al costs" model of trans care is badly failing these girls.
But yes, on an individual level, opposition to trans rights is a mystery. Same as with same-sex marriage or any number of other topics. The amount of time and energy some people invest in what other people are doing with their lives is bizarre.
My only concern when it come to trans rights are, as I said, the areas where trans rights intersect with women's rights (sports, prisons, single-sex spaces, etc.). And the way we approach care for young kids who are figuring out their identity. The idea that, for example, children should be able to get access to cross-sex hormones without any parental intervention is a huge minefield. And while I understand the reason trans activists support this, it's ridiculous to pretend that this isn't also fraught with problems, as the de-transitioning teenagers I mentioned will attest to.
Religious groups are always going to be behind the curve on issues like these. That's unavoidable I think. We've long been in territory as a society that a millennia old book wasn't prepared to offer guidance on.