I'm a trans man. We don't have a secret agenda – we're just asking you to let us live.
I'm a trans man. We don't have a secret agenda – we're just asking you to let us live.
I didn't have the language growing up to know that I am trans, but I knew I was different. I hope my son never has to face what I did.
I don't know why I was born transgender, but I have no secret agenda. I want my child to live in a world where they are safe and free to be exactly who they are.
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Fewer than 1 in 3 people report personally knowing someone who is transgender. Yet the American public is saturated with viral social media videos and political news stories, largely generated by a well-funded coalition of organizations long dedicated to making it as difficult as possible for LGBTQ+ people to go about their daily lives.
These organizations proudly advocate for the abuse of LGBTQ+ young people through the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy, and they have celebrated their role in influencing Texas to “investigate” parents who’re doing their level best to support their transgender kids.
They’ve succeeded in generating national debates about excluding transgender kids from school sports, banning medically necessary health care and even prohibiting restroom usage – all under a guise of “protecting young people.” But these debates are largely missing the point.
Transgender people are our friends, family members and neighbors. They work in the cubicle next to us at the office, and they pray next to us in our houses of worship.
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Its so clearly a scapegoat. Unfortunately rationality is in short supply.
There are so few that isolated communities can more easily demonize them and radicalize people against them as a social boogeyman and a distraction from the actual grifting and thieving and indoctrinating that is happening by clergy and politicians and billionaires. But people keep listening to what people say instead of watching what they do and allow themselves to be manipulated.
We should make a secret agenda. On Tuesday, all the trans people will meet up for taco night.
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It's funny you should say this. There's an orginazition in my home state called the Trans Advocacy Coalition of Oklahoma (TACO). It meets on tuesdays, of course.
i vote the trans agenda be true individualistic freedom!
I just want to do my own thing, fuck off and leave me alone for fucks sake. And while i'm at bitching about it, i see no reason that sentiment shouldn't be extended to everyone else, we all deserve to be left alone sometimes.
Well, that's the problem. They don't want you to live.
Outspoken anti-Trans bigot and Nazi platformer Kellie-Jay "Posie Parker" Keen has stated just as such on multiple occasions. She's talked a lot about "we can't let them trans the children," but when you press her (hell, even when you don't) she will admit that she doesn't think anyone should be allowed to transition at any age. She's also said that anyone who has transitioned should be forced to detransition. So... she doesn't like trans people and wants to torture them... other anti-Trans activists are shocked that she attracts Nazis and really want her to go away, but she's their ideology taken to it's conclusion.
I'm pretty sure the Transgender community is just getting scapegoated by Trump & the GOP because they're a convenient group to go after. It's a relatively little known and "strange" group (to mainstream America) that are considered "sexual deviants" and such; a group that, until relatively recently (within 10-20 years), no one would've batted an eyelash if you made fun of being transgender or joked about it. It may even still be a reality in some places, my workplace would shitcan you in a heartbeat for that, but I'm sure other places wouldn't care as much. So just as with illegal immigrants, the Chinese, Muslims, and any other group they can find, the GOP are targeting them to use as a scapegoat for whatever stupid, needlessly cruel shit they can think up.
I'm trans and I have an agenda that right wingers would find very dangerous.
Probably unrelated though
I love everyone, just don't expect me to call you kitten, princess, or any other pronouns outside of he/him, she/her, they/them. That's basically where I draw the line. Other than that, do whatever you want.
Is that a thing? 😮 I also will not be addressing anyone as kitten.
No, it's another transphobic straw man. Basically the same as saying "Human love is fine just don't be fucking dogs or kids." It's injecting hate into a conversation nobody is having.
Yes, it is. When I was in high school a couple of years ago, a substitute health teacher/activist came in for a week and taught a lot about transgender/gender issues. To be clear, I have no issues at all with transgender individuals or people who struggle with gender identity. But, lord, she unleashed the 'gender unicorn' on us, and I couldn't take it seriously. There were over 70 genders, including princess, prince, kitten, xe/xem, etc.
I believe what she did was actually illegal, akin to someone coming to a school to teach about religion. I'm okay with spreading awareness, but not like this. This was just different. I was being graded on this too, so I was basically forced to answer the questions without being able to object to anything.
Uh huh...but that isn't transgender, that's Tumblrgender and they do not represent trans people lol.
How brave
nono, see you don't understand, the secrete agenda is living.
Don't tell the government, they won't like that.
shitposting aside, i like how it says "fewer than 1 in 3" which is incredibly wide, but i'll assume greater than .5 and less than 1 for sake of the argument. That means, assuming you have a handful of siblings, and parents, there is a none zero chance that someone in your family is trans.
Let's break it out further, at work, you probably interact with someone who is, especially if you work with customers/clients. Extended family? Almost certainly, online friends and acquaintances? You'd be stupid to think there isn't a trans person somewhere in that group.
i feel like that stat, and the next sentence "yet the american public" are in direct conflict, considering that statistically, it's pretty likely that you know a trans person, and considering that for something to be a massive political hot button issue on one side of the aisle, it would have to be at least somewhat prominent.
This shouldn't be a surprise, this is how this shit works. People don't like black people having freedom, suddenly the KKK exists. People don't like women being able to own bank accounts, suddenly misogyny is now a thing. Queer people exist now, why are we acting surprised with that phrasing?
Alright, enough of my autistic shenanigans, go have fun and enjoy something. It's good for the soul.
Plot twist: the Trans Agenda is very similar to the Gay Agenda.... It was always just a Trapper Keeper. Turns out they just like to be organized.
Stop asking start fighting
trans people and our allies are fighting; that's why the christian theocrats are freaking out and using us as the threat of the day to drum up their stupid, ignorant base.
When we fight back, we get killed. (And then blamed for own deaths/have our deaths covered up - if you believe that Nex offed himself, you know nothing about how corrupt Oklahoma is)
Edit: that was meant to read “didn’t off” himself. I said the opposite of what I meant.
Nex did not kill himself, Owasso covered up the bullying and pretty much every state department is understaffed by under qualified toadies of Stitt.
Oklahoman here. I don't know whether Nex died by suicide or not. But on a local level, the Owasso (and greater) community hasn't given up the fight yet. Whether his injuries from the attack at school are what directly killed him or not, it doesn't change the fact that he'd been a target of bullying for months and that he and his family were repeatedly ignored by the school and the police, and then he was beaten in the school bathroom by several classmates. Since his death, our politicians have doubled down on transphobic rhetoric, and our schools are still becoming more and more hostile towards LGBT+ youth. There's a lot to talk about here, and local organizations have done a great job on covering these issues in press releases and the like. And there's still more to come; we're currently waiting on the release of the Medical Examiner's full report (unless it's been published already; I last checked about a week ago, and I just don't have the emotional spoons today).
Anyway, sorry for going into a whole rant. What I was going to say, in reply to your comment, is that our OCME (office of the chief medical examiner) hasn't been nationally accredited since 2009. So, um. There's that. ¯\(°_o)/¯
As long as the Abhramic religions exist the LGBT are at best a tolerated minority.
I'm a trans man. We don't have a secret agenda – we're just asking you to let us live.
That may be true for you, the individual. And a lot of gay/trans "community" are quite frankly embarrassed by a lot of the forceful behavior, public displays, and various in-your-face stuff. Many just want to live their own private life and let alone.
In a capitalist system money is a weapon. You wonder why gay men have been so successful in shifting attitudes? It's because they have money.
Yet Caitlyn Jenner isn't exactly using her money to help the trans cause... It requires more than just money, there has to be a political movement and adherents to that movement who have the money and other relevant resources to effect change.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of not just history in general, but specifically and especially queer history.
You know the weapons that got us rights? It was horse archery, the doctrine of special forces, the 20th century incarnation of guerrilla warfare, and fucking bricks thrown very hard at cops by people with nothing to lose. This assimilationist bullshit is going to get people killed, and I might be one if them, so please fucking stop.
I reject the idea that supporting some young people must come at the expense of others.
Well...you're adding transgender athletes at the expense of biological females. It's hard to take that statement at face value.
Banning all transgender atheletes due to one or two high performers does a dis-service to all transgendered atheletes though.
It's not all female atheletes who are being disadvantaged, but it WOULD be all transgender atheletes disadvantaged.
I have no problem with transgender atheletes as long as the competition guidelines are clear, obtainable, and the students stay within the guidelines.
If it becomes an issue where all transgender students are repeatedly setting records and such, making it impossible for non-transgendered kids to compete? Then you change the competitive guidelines, you don't ban an entire class of kids from competing.
For example:
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Must be on puberty blockers for x months or years.
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Must be on proper hormones for x months or years.
Heck, they might even require re-assignment surgery.
The problem with guidelines like this, is the people opposed to trans atheletes are ALSO opposed to puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and re-assignment surgery.
one of the funny things about banning trans people in sports to me, is that sports is literally unfair from the get go. You ever wonder why usain bolt is tall as fuck? You ever seen the skeleton shape of an olympic swimmer? ALL of that shit is entirely abstract, and completely genetically made up.
literally, who cares. It's all bullshit, you can't just wake up, and decide to be an olympic level athlete one day. I mean sure you could be pretty good, that's pretty good.
Also, if it's "unfair" isn't that more of an indictment on the institution hosting it itself? College athletes for example. Isn't it kind of weird that if you can play sports well, you get a free education? I don't get a free education just because i use linux well.
If it becomes an issue where all transgender students are repeatedly setting records and such
We're past that point.
There's simply not a way to take a way a trans-woman's bone density or muscle mass. Sure they get "weaker" after transitioning, but the effect is exactly the same as someone taking human growth hormone for a couple of years then stopping. The British Journal of sports medicine redacted their recommendation that after 4 years a trans-female could play a woman's sport with no benefit.
It's play with the men, or don't play. I've yet to see a men's league of anything that would stop a woman or trans-athlete from playing if they can make the team. The NFL tries out women all the time. The MLB had a girl make the Cubs for a week or two. Hockey has had women play in the minors.
The other end game argument is we just abolish women's sports and go to open leagues only. If we want equality and inclusion, that'll be the end result.
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And we’re not threatening to kill you, so I guess we’re good
"hey i might be racist, but at least i don't lynch people" is not a great look either.
Speaking on the topic, i find the concept of "being anti trans" to be a rather fundamentally obtuse topic. It's like being anti lion.
Just asking them to live a lie for your convenience?
Speaking as a trans person, it's great that you're not, but some people definitely are. That said, yes, it sounds like we're good :)
Im a bit of a dummy here but what rights do no trans people havw that trans people dont?
Your comment history is public.
Where I am, I don't have rights to medical care. There are also numerous laws in progress that aim to remove the rights for trans people to participate in sports and use the bathroom.
Since you mentioned sports. I was wondering your view point on how it should be handled in some cases. I'm not at all against it but think it could be tricky when dealing with some sports if someone is male to female transitioning after puberty. In some cases there's no gray area such as when the world chess organization banned transgender women like what in the fuck. It's not physical it's a thinking game I don't even know why they would separate genders anyway unless to just be sexist and imply one is smarter than the other.
If ur in the us u never had a right to medical care. I'm in aus and currently most if not all gender affirming surgery is classified as cosmetic surgery and not covered my Medicare (nation health) if I want to physically modify my body that is also not covered seems pretty goddamn equal to me. Here's the dumbed down flowchart: brain doesn't like physical appearance of body -> brain wants that changed to feel better about itself -> not covered regardless of reason. Explain how this is anything but equality? Should I be protesting my right to have the government pay for me to get a bigger dick?
And the whole sports thing men have physical advances in many sports that's just science not all of those advantages are removed by being trans. Therefore it is not fare to have them compete against women. Explain how someone with an advantage from having been born as a male competing against people who can never attain that advantage is equality?
And the bathroom thing males are statistically more violent and prone to committing sexual violence this study found there is no appreciable difference in these actions post surgery therefore by putting trans women in women's bathrooms the statistics say no there is a reason men and women's bathrooms are separate being trans doesn't change the math.
Im a bit of a dummy here
This is true.
in some respects you have a technically correct argument here. The problem is, is that this is like deferring an engineering problem in a bad design because "simply just don't build it wrong" only for someone to then go and build it wrong, and for it to kill tons of people.
The millennium tower in san fran is a pretty good example of this. Somewhere along the line somebody fucked up. Maybe it was the engineer. Maybe it was the project manager, who knows. Just because they're all educated and smart people, doesn't mean they can't fuck shit up.
Likewise here, technically they have rights, just like everyone else does, but the problem here, is that those equal rights, when compared to everyone, negatively impact only one specific group of people. Much like separate but equal, back during segregation. It's technically "equal" but it's still discriminatory.
Actually there millennium tower has always been perfectly safe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY there was no fuckup just unpredicted surrounding geotechnical activity. Trust me I'm an engineer.
Segregation was never equal I don't currently see any unequal implementation of any rights in regards to trans people (well in the western world). Please explain exactly how the rights we all have are negligibly effecting them compared to everyone else?