I’m someone you’d probably consider on the opposite side of you. I believe in sex-based rights. I’m also someone with data training who dug into the studies cited by WPATH to support child transition years ago, and realized just how flimsy they were. And I see and despise the deep misogyny of a lot of trans rights activists. So, I’m positive you’d consider me on the opposite side of you. I wanted to tell you this: I know you won’t believe this, but I want your child to thrive. I want evidence-based care for kids like your child. I want rigorous studies that chart out lifetime care paths, not the ideologically-driven and extraordinarily weak studies that exist now. I do not support the inflammatory language of Trump’s EOs or most aspects of them. I think Nancy Mace’s behavior is unacceptable. I think people like Matt Walsh are vile, morally bankrupt grifters. I never use the t-slur. I think there has to be a way to balance sex-based rights and trans rights, we just haven’t figured it out yet as a society. I’m sorry for what you and your child are going through right now. It’s not right, and if Democrats and Republicans both hadn’t been cynically fundraising for years on the backs of kids like yours, if hospitals and medical systems hadn’t seen your kid as endless money printing machines, if liberals hadn’t inexplicably decided that for this one issue, even the slightest questioning of the orthodoxy was impermissible and an offense worthy of excommunication, you and your child would not be in this awful situation. And it is awful: we shouldn’t be here. This has been a systemic failure. And I am sorry for the heartbreak you are feeling. You and your kid deserve better. |
No. And the more the left insists women need to shut up, the more I’ll speak out. Women deserve the privacy and safety of sex segregated spaces like bathrooms and sports. |
Because 1. There is nothing disrespectful about calling a man a man 2. Saying a man is a woman is a lie |
There will be no studies. Good studies, bad studies, mediocre studies. None. Trump banned transgender and a slew of other words from federal grants had them scrubbed from federal databases. |
Sweetheart, if you want to "make up a gender" that involves wearing purple feathers and cackling like a duck, go right ahead. You can follow whatever crazy gender whim you desire, at any time you want. (You won't work for me, or be hired by my company, but that's another story.) What you will not do is influence my children and, as much as I can continue to work to prevent it, influence any children. You will not tell them or lead them to believe that any of this is normal, or right, or OK, or good, or the solution to their problems, or any other tactic you dream up. Adults - go for it. But you're not coming for the kids. |
I’m just annoyed that anti-trans posters are too wimpy to admit how to resolve the “trans issue.”
They dance around the policy solutions, but won’t admit their Final Solution. At this point they seem to be engaged in mass scream into the void and gnash their teeth. Of course when they finally get what they want - violence against trans people - they will of course say “the Democrats made us do this!” It’s so pathetic and weak. |
… because you think they’ll also want to be nonbinary forever? Because they heard someone else is? Firstly - it’s not contagious. Secondly - I am not your sweetie. So you can step down there. Even if that happened. Even if everyone on the planet made up a gender. So what? If it made them happy. I can’t imagine they would. But if they did - what’s the worst that could happen? To me, kids killing themselves bc they have a parent like you who refuses to see what’s in front of their eyes (if it’s the case they are trans) or makes them feel there is something deeply wrong with them or throws them out is a much much bigger and more evidence based concern than the weird one you cooked up. |
There is no issue, the broader culture overwhelmingly rejects making every conceivable accommodation for trans people, because trans women are not truly women. This final.sokution nonsense exists only.in the shrill minds of the hyper online. |
It is absolutely "contagious," so you can stop right there. |
+1. That is what these crazies don't understand, because they are so vested in their own victimhood. There is no "trans issue," except stopping them from luring innocent kids into the fold. |
Even if you believe that it’s disrespectful to say anything to anyone that is deeply hurtful for no reason. I bet you’re fat (bc maga) but I wouldn’t say it to your face. Even though it’s true. Bc it would hurt you. Not saying you’re fat is a lie. But it’s still ok not to say it. Secondly, gender is a social construct plain and simple. So there’s no lie. |
This is the real problem maga has with transgender people. They think it’s contagious (unlike measles which is harmless) and that they can will away the possibility of having a “different” kid and all the judgment that they will get. They don’t see that acceptance is the way through the conundrum. |
NP. And I'm 5'7" 127 pounds, just for the record. If I'm fat, I know I'm fat. I'm not trying to get you to pretend that I'm not. If I see a man who is pretending that he is a woman, I'm not going along with his delusion, just to be "respectful." |
Sure. That’s what’s great about an anonymous forum is you can pretend to be any weight. Again - gender is not for you to determine. And even if it were a ‘fact’; I bet you’re a Christian. To me it’s clearly factual there is no God determining everything. And it’s been settled scientific fact for a long time that the world was created by the Big Bang theory. I could go on. Should I come burn your bible and raise your church and say - listen lady - we’re done pretending here? |
It’s actually not true and much more complex, although that would require you to read and have complex understandings which I know is not your fave https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/ |