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Gwynevere posted...

So you don't think that the people legislating trans rights out of existence hate us? You think all the accusations of pedophilia and grooming children are coming from a place of love? People that engage in verbal and physical violence against queer people don't hate us?

An observation of how hateful these people are doesn't come from a place of emotion, it comes from living in fucking reality.

Again, I see statements like these as painting with too broad a brush.

Like what specifically do you mean by "trans rights"? The right to live? The right to not be victims of violence?

Because I don't know of a single politician anywhere who is disagreeing with that.

When you put it all in one big bucket IMO it's not helpful. Most people who commit acts of violence are clearly hateful, most people who calmly raise concerns about HRT for children are probably not hateful.

You can disagree with them strongly, and you have that right. But just in general I don't think it's helpful to paint with an overly broad brush, and act like there's this monolith of people literally looking to commit genocide.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Send me to a Republican's page who is putting "mass genocide of LGBTQ+ people" on their policies page and I'll certainly retract my claim.

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I don't know if I want to keep talking about this. It's an emotional issue for some people, and while I do believe in the productive value of calm discussion and engagement with those we disagree with, idk if I want to risk causing somebody too much upset by trying to unpack it all.

I guess what I'll do is only respond if somebody explicitly wants to talk to me about this. Otherwise I think I've said my piece about this video. It is an interesting an thought provoking video, and definitely an interesting discussion.

I hope we as a society land on the solution that is most helpful and least harmful to the most people.