UT: Cisgender Student Under Police Protection as Trans Panic Rages On
UT: Cisgender Student Under Police Protection as Trans Panic Rages On
Another cisgender girl in Utah has been accused of being transgender, leading to fears for her safety in the midst of an ongoing moral panic over transgender participation in sports.
The fear and humiliation these cisgender girls are being subjected to is real, and deserves to be addressed. However, it also underscores the threats of violence that are increasingly darkening the lives of transgender people, particularly transfemmes, nationwide. If the mere possibility that a girl might be transgender is enough to spur such an extreme outpouring of rage the danger an actual transgender girl would face in similar circumstances is hard to overstate.
What in the hell is happening? It’s like the more we progress socially the more the religious zealots get to go fucking crazy.
let's not go crazy here, this story is from Utah. Utah is basically full of religious zealots and has absolutely not progressed socially in the last two decades outside of maybe Salt Lake City.
You gotta remember, there are two Americas. Rural America is closer to a fundamentalist country in the Middle East or Africa.
Religion has had a stranglehold on society for millennia, and now that their power is slowly fading away as people turn away from it they are lashing out.
They're too short-sighted to see that this behavior is only going to push more people away from them and hasten their decline.
This is fascism, the religious bit is really just peripheral. They believe in inequality based on some kind of identity.
Many religions don't teach homo/transphoba, much of the world's homo/transphoba comes from a particular set of religions.
Libertarian capitalism created the perfect breeding ground for fascism.
This always happens when society starts to see a shift. It sucks but it's also a good thing in the long run. Just the angry dying gasps of a cult that we don't need or want anymore.
I mean... There was a commercial for Jesus on Hulu earlier today lmao. They're losing it
Another cisgender girl in Utah has been accused of being transgender, leading to fears for her safety in the midst of an ongoing moral panic over transgender participation in sports.
Anti-trans legislation and rhetoric is a win-win for bigots! Not only do you get to oppress the minority of people who are trans, but you can also oppress women (and men who don't conform to stereotypes, but mostly women) by baselessly accusing them of being transgender.
If they feel a cis gender person needs to be protected after being accused of being trans, that suggests that people who are actually trans are in just as much danger and should be receiving the same protections.