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Grow Some Labia's avatar

It's important to note that most of the violence, sexual, fatal, or near-fatal that transpeople face is from their male partners. If any women are abusing transwomen partners I don't know about it but I wouldn't rule it out, and it would likely be far under the rate for cis-het women abusing cis-het males, which happens more than we think but guess what, men don't report either so we can't be sure. And lesbian domestic violence is more prevalent than we thought. So, women do abuse men, trans or otherwise, but most transpeople are getting hurt by their male partners. Which is where women are, mostly getting hurt and murdered by partners.

A month or so ago the TransTwits were trying to paint Queen Elizabeth I as 'trans' or 'nonbinary' because she displayed certain male behavioural characteristics (hard to understand why when you're the head of one of the then-most powerful countries in the world). I got a fair amount of support when I took them to task for characterizing a dead person as such when they couldn't defend themselves.

As for bathrooms, it's time we start pushing back on the third bathroom idea. There are now enough people buying into this 'identity' that it makes perfect sense. I also think it will put an end to the bathroom nonsense once enough people are on board with it. Thanks, Steve, for pointing out that male violence rates aren't notably different for trans vs cis men. I have a research paper on this somewhere in my articles collection.

And if Rob is right that you might be trans if you just 'let yourself go for five minutes', I'll keep all my old clothes and send them to you when I clean out my closet! I'm pretty girly so you can go nuts and explore your occasionally feminine side, LOL!

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From a response on Medium:

"As I have been saying for decades myself, transition is NOT something that should ever be made in adulthood after puberty has destroyed the body and caused severe trauma, that is insanity, oftentimes it's even too late to transition in adulthood. "

Puberty destroys the body. Ummm, yeah. I was almost tempted to respond to this fool but forebore, it would not work and would likely get me banned again for "hate speech" so I left that shit on the floor where it was shat.

There is another article today claiming that violence toward all of the members of the acronym is on the rise. Since "LQBTQIA+[this space reserved]" now means only T, it's unsurprising that someone would believe that.

Encouraging children to have their health destroyed by hormones or to be irreversibly mutilated by surgery is the real source of any backlash and it is a potent talking point for the real bigots, and almost as potent for people who are not. And since "trans" activists regard any disagreement with even their most extreme and absurd positions as "transphobia," including surgery on 13 yo girls (the article I quoted recommends surgery on five year olds), no debate is possible.

Yes, suicide rates among dysphoric teens are higher than that among all teens, but then suicide rates are also pretty high among those who transitioned and came to regret it after realizing they're actually gay, if even that, or they were just seeking an escape from misery.

And, again, the number claiming "trans" is hundreds of times the number who would actually qualify as such, it's a fad, and that throws a lot of sand into the gears of reasonable discussion.

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