• infinite_ass@leminal.space
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    5 months ago

    I’ve never seen anybody IRL complaining about trans people. I think the whole thing is a media-powered storm in a teacup.

    • refalo@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      Sample size of 1 is not indicative of anything.

      I think it greatly depends on where you live.

      Post your location and I’m sure people will be quick to point out how overtly racist your area is, which is probably why people are too afraid to speak out.

  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    Sure. Doesn’t mean I have to fly your flag. I don’t ask you to fly mine. Can we both respect that?

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I don’t ask you to fly mine. Can we both respect that?

      I don’t see where anyone asked you to fly theirs, either?

      • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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        5 months ago

        Go check out what happened to the warmington mayor when he refused. His town doesn’t even have a flag pole!

  • MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is one of the things that bother me with people being anti-trans. Why the hell do they care? There is nothing, NOTHING that trans people are asking for that bother me, because it does not affect my life. I don’t see how it affects theirs either.

    There are two things I know little about when it comes to trans.

    1. How to make it fair in sports, but I really don’t care for sports. So I haven’t researched it. Don’t really care if they participate, but I don’t take sports seriously anyways.

    2. How to protect vulnerable people from themselves. This is probably contraversial, but I am for giving trans people the treatment they need to transition, or at least make sure it is possible at a later stage by giving hormones / blockers. So that they can transition a bit older.

    However (the controversial part) many trans people are vulnerable and also struggle with other issues and operations is often permanent. This is something that I don’t believe is easy to decide, I am ignorant here, I trust medical professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists and the trans community to come up with guidelines / practice here. It is however not something that I think politicians should decide, or is competent in deciding.

    The only reason I care about point 2 is to protect people from mistakes, not to stop trans people from transitioning!

    Thanks for reading my rant 😊

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 months ago

        Fun fact, a recent study reported that cis women have an advantage over trans women in sports due to their higher testosterone levels allowing them to build more muscle mass.

        You know, the same argument transphobes use against letting trans people be athletes because of their supposed “biological advantage.”

        Which is the same one that’s been used for almost a century now to ban black women from women’s sports due to their naturally higher testosterone levels when compared to white women.