joe40001 posted... 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.
You could have just said "I don't give a
flying fuck about trans people" and saved us all the trouble. When politicians are calling doctors and parents who support gender-affirming care pedophiles, when states are opening up snitch lines to report trans people, when they are forcibly detransitioning people and outlawing transition, when they make it illegal to "dress in drag" in public, you don't get to go "I think this is a nuanced issue where a lot of people calmly share their valid concerns and need to be addressed with an open-mind".
This is fascism. Anyone who "disagrees" on trans people, LGBTQ people, and their human rights is an immoral person void of empathy. You know what the solution is when someone has a concern about the LGBTQ movement? To shut the fuck up and move on with their lives! I'd hate to have seen you in 1930s Germany.