"I’m not sure if it’ll last, but there’s been a noticeable shift in the attitudes of trans people I talk to online lately. They’re more reasonable, less dogmatic, more willing to acknowledge facts and the need for compromise."
I doubt very seriously that you are seeing any shift in attitudes. It's much more likely you are seeing the emer…
"I’m not sure if it’ll last, but there’s been a noticeable shift in the attitudes of trans people I talk to online lately. They’re more reasonable, less dogmatic, more willing to acknowledge facts and the need for compromise."
I doubt very seriously that you are seeing any shift in attitudes. It's much more likely you are seeing the emergence of other voices, more reasonable ones, against whom the extremists will harden their hatred and seek to have expelled. I'd bet a lot of money on this were I open to wagering.
Because this is what happened in the gay community. After all those years of telling heterosexuals how much they were hated, the more pragmatic and goal-oriented began to counter the catharsis-oriented creeps and it was only then that we started to make any progress. Meanwhile, the radicals doubled and tripled down on their belligerence and it was around then that "queer" went from a slur/fightin' word/"hurtful" to the "beautiful and inclusive and reclaimed" word it is today. And the radicals, those who didn't push back on "negative messaging about gay sex" in the AIDS era and got infected and died, are as vehement as ever.
Edit: screw inclusivity. I would rather be part of a mosaic than a melting pot of mud.
I think there's been a shift in the ability of GCs to speak out more; the wheels are falling off the trans bus. I suspect there are more trans supporters of intelligent transitioning than we know because they, too, are afraid of the TRAs, as they should be. The far left has become a brutal, self-destructive phenomenon in which they'd rather left the far right win than the forces of rationalism and intelligence.
We all look like rabid right-wingers to them because that's what everyone who's not One Of Them looks like to extremists.
"I’m not sure if it’ll last, but there’s been a noticeable shift in the attitudes of trans people I talk to online lately. They’re more reasonable, less dogmatic, more willing to acknowledge facts and the need for compromise."
I doubt very seriously that you are seeing any shift in attitudes. It's much more likely you are seeing the emergence of other voices, more reasonable ones, against whom the extremists will harden their hatred and seek to have expelled. I'd bet a lot of money on this were I open to wagering.
Because this is what happened in the gay community. After all those years of telling heterosexuals how much they were hated, the more pragmatic and goal-oriented began to counter the catharsis-oriented creeps and it was only then that we started to make any progress. Meanwhile, the radicals doubled and tripled down on their belligerence and it was around then that "queer" went from a slur/fightin' word/"hurtful" to the "beautiful and inclusive and reclaimed" word it is today. And the radicals, those who didn't push back on "negative messaging about gay sex" in the AIDS era and got infected and died, are as vehement as ever.
Edit: screw inclusivity. I would rather be part of a mosaic than a melting pot of mud.
I think there's been a shift in the ability of GCs to speak out more; the wheels are falling off the trans bus. I suspect there are more trans supporters of intelligent transitioning than we know because they, too, are afraid of the TRAs, as they should be. The far left has become a brutal, self-destructive phenomenon in which they'd rather left the far right win than the forces of rationalism and intelligence.
We all look like rabid right-wingers to them because that's what everyone who's not One Of Them looks like to extremists.