"The trans activists NEVER talk about this. Ever."
Yep, my ever expanding list of things to write about includes an article about rans men specifically. I think trans men clarify a lot of these issues that are thought of by most people, on both sides, purely in terms of trans women.
Funnily enough, it's almost unheard of to see trans men being aggressive or violent or demanding when it comes to their inclusion. It's always the trans women. I wonder what could explain that...
For those of us not immersed 24/7 in "trans" issues the terms are confusing. A "trans" woman is a man, a "trans" man is a woman. In an earlier discussion you introduced the term "trans-identifying man" in which the biological gender ends the phrase. In the interests of (1) clarity and (2) not playing along with this crap, I think those terms make more sense in this forum.
IтАЩm going to assume from your sincerity and candor that your son is one of the very few who is actually dysphoric. Aside from the statistical improbability, I have no reason to disbelieve this.
But the issue is severely adulterated by vast numbers for whom тАЬtransтАЭ is just a game, an opportunity to get a sense of belonging and a ton of attention. The transgender people IтАЩve known were quiet about their condition, didnтАЩt live in a state of rage at imagined slights, and didnтАЩt make YouTube videos about being тАЬmisgenderedтАЭ or about their goddamn pronouns.
This fad is harming the real ones and harming a lot if other people; the collateral damage of renewed attacks on people innocent of this behavior, the new loss of support for LGB people, the kerfuffle around drag shows.
People being fired from work over pronouns. Ridiculous sensitivity training sessions. Teachers expected to remember different third-person references for large classrooms.
I lost $1500//month for posting something inoffensive and biologically factual on Medium, *once*.
If I worked in an office I could be fired for my refusal to use тАЬtheyтАЭ as a singular.
The backlash is starting. ItтАЩs not going to be pleasant.
I am left to wonder if the viciousness aimed at you is because you hold primary membership in the LGB that they want to attach themselves to and you (rightfully in my opinion) reject that. They also are very vicious toward women who object to the removal of the trans prefix from woman. I see a commonality in "you are not really one of us" as threatening to them.
Not in this case though I'm sure that's happened. I didn't put "gay" in my profile n Medium because I don't feel much identification with it. No, this uh person was just a rage case. Its avatar was a cartoon girl snarling in rage and its moniker was something belligerent; its profile was 100% "trans" and "queer" credentials.
As far as I can see the "trans" crowd, especially the biological men, see enemies everywhere and want allies from outside their sore and sick community like a slug wants salt. They enjoy feeling important enough to feel persecuted.
What really scares me is how many people who should know better are buying into this stuff. Barristas in Starbucks have pronouns on their name tags now. A lot of companies demand that employees have them in email signatures. A lot of Democrats have them in their social media profiles.
And I couldn't give less of a shit about the gender of the person serving me coffee or that I interface with in business. With a sane business focus on a lack of gender focus, requiring pronouns seems strange.
As soon as you start requiring new construction e.g. in prisons you are going to have well-financed pushback. Some "trans" activists demand special bathrooms everywhere from gas stations to skyscrapers, for what amounts to, in reality, well under 1% of the population.
I think that those who claim a gender other than the one born into have implicitly opted out of all sports competitions unless there are ungendered sports I don't know about. Lia Thomas was an outrage.
Locker rooms, changing rooms, lavatories; these are big problems because a lot of women, maybe most, have every right to object. This is not new. The Minnesota Womyn's (sic) Music Festival emphatically didn't want trans identifying men in attendance and that was a quarter century ago when the only transitioned were actually dysphoric. We're not going to settle this here.
"The trans activists NEVER talk about this. Ever."
Yep, my ever expanding list of things to write about includes an article about rans men specifically. I think trans men clarify a lot of these issues that are thought of by most people, on both sides, purely in terms of trans women.
Funnily enough, it's almost unheard of to see trans men being aggressive or violent or demanding when it comes to their inclusion. It's always the trans women. I wonder what could explain that...
For those of us not immersed 24/7 in "trans" issues the terms are confusing. A "trans" woman is a man, a "trans" man is a woman. In an earlier discussion you introduced the term "trans-identifying man" in which the biological gender ends the phrase. In the interests of (1) clarity and (2) not playing along with this crap, I think those terms make more sense in this forum.
IтАЩm going to assume from your sincerity and candor that your son is one of the very few who is actually dysphoric. Aside from the statistical improbability, I have no reason to disbelieve this.
But the issue is severely adulterated by vast numbers for whom тАЬtransтАЭ is just a game, an opportunity to get a sense of belonging and a ton of attention. The transgender people IтАЩve known were quiet about their condition, didnтАЩt live in a state of rage at imagined slights, and didnтАЩt make YouTube videos about being тАЬmisgenderedтАЭ or about their goddamn pronouns.
This fad is harming the real ones and harming a lot if other people; the collateral damage of renewed attacks on people innocent of this behavior, the new loss of support for LGB people, the kerfuffle around drag shows.
People being fired from work over pronouns. Ridiculous sensitivity training sessions. Teachers expected to remember different third-person references for large classrooms.
I lost $1500//month for posting something inoffensive and biologically factual on Medium, *once*.
If I worked in an office I could be fired for my refusal to use тАЬtheyтАЭ as a singular.
The backlash is starting. ItтАЩs not going to be pleasant.
I am left to wonder if the viciousness aimed at you is because you hold primary membership in the LGB that they want to attach themselves to and you (rightfully in my opinion) reject that. They also are very vicious toward women who object to the removal of the trans prefix from woman. I see a commonality in "you are not really one of us" as threatening to them.
Not in this case though I'm sure that's happened. I didn't put "gay" in my profile n Medium because I don't feel much identification with it. No, this uh person was just a rage case. Its avatar was a cartoon girl snarling in rage and its moniker was something belligerent; its profile was 100% "trans" and "queer" credentials.
As far as I can see the "trans" crowd, especially the biological men, see enemies everywhere and want allies from outside their sore and sick community like a slug wants salt. They enjoy feeling important enough to feel persecuted.
What really scares me is how many people who should know better are buying into this stuff. Barristas in Starbucks have pronouns on their name tags now. A lot of companies demand that employees have them in email signatures. A lot of Democrats have them in their social media profiles.
It is interesting that trans identifying men are most prone to display the traits that feminists find to be toxic in men.
And I couldn't give less of a shit about the gender of the person serving me coffee or that I interface with in business. With a sane business focus on a lack of gender focus, requiring pronouns seems strange.
"Its" seems like an appropriate pronoun for it.
Don't want "he?"
Don't want "she?"
You're not getting "they."
"It" is what you get.
Bububut ...
"You made your bed, lie in it and shut the fuck up."
As soon as you start requiring new construction e.g. in prisons you are going to have well-financed pushback. Some "trans" activists demand special bathrooms everywhere from gas stations to skyscrapers, for what amounts to, in reality, well under 1% of the population.
I think that those who claim a gender other than the one born into have implicitly opted out of all sports competitions unless there are ungendered sports I don't know about. Lia Thomas was an outrage.
Locker rooms, changing rooms, lavatories; these are big problems because a lot of women, maybe most, have every right to object. This is not new. The Minnesota Womyn's (sic) Music Festival emphatically didn't want trans identifying men in attendance and that was a quarter century ago when the only transitioned were actually dysphoric. We're not going to settle this here.
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Acknowledging the reality of genitalia does not support fantasy of trans-radicals.