This prerogative has come under fire. And if you believe - as much of America’s traditional elite evidently does - that you are entitled to say and do whatever you want without legal or cultural sanction, that you are entitled to unconditional affirmation, that’s bad.
But actually, it is progress. /end
Think about how cynical, how utterly vile this is: “No rights are being ‘stripped away.’ None.”
As red states have introduced *hundreds* of anti-trans bills, passing ever-more extreme anti-trans laws every week.
What an unbelievably disingenuous bigot this man is. Despicable.
So many people proudly taking the Sullivan “You’re just making stuff up” line in my responses. When this, below, is what’s happening across the U.S.
There is no plausible deniability for this level of willful ignorance or bigotry. You’re just telling the world who you are.
https://twitter.com/alliraine22/status/1623661865694814209?s=46&t=_53cm4rOvmKcHLu6st0Jpg
“How dare you accuse us of transphobia - we’re just saying that trans women are actually men merely pretending to be women who should always be treated as men, and oh, they are also inherently dangerous and tend to be child molesters and rapists.”
Keep telling us who you are.
@tzimmer_history Cishet men are the biggest threat to women of all kinds. So why aren't they focusing their efforts on that group?
(Because it's much easier to aim rage at a group you *know* to be less dangerous.)
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Anti-trans folks might stop using things in whose creation crucial contributions were made by trans folks, like ARM microprocessors (Sophie Wilson, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson) or even more pervasive, VLSI semiconductors (Lynn Conway, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway), both Fellows of #ComputerHistoryMuseum, among many honors. I still have my copy of Mead-Conway book.
@tzimmer_history
all of these idiots get off on going full-on genocidal and then crying to the manager if you express an ounce of resistance
they can't be reasoned with because the power to pervert reason with their institutional megaphones is the only thing that matters to them
@tzimmer_history I am curious as to Andrew Sullivan's qualifications to decide on appropriate medical treatment.
I'm not, really, but it's just frustrating how deliberately smug he is because he literally doesn't know enough to know why he's wrong.
If he cared, he'd read what actual medical experts say. But no, he's so certain that the medical experts are on his side that he is offended that anyone would insist that he stop and ask us!
@tzimmer_history Also, his line about children and "medicalization" is right out of old-school Scientology agit-prop, in case any journalists are interested in looking into the money funding this.
Scientology and their front group CCHR (and they create plenty of others), used very similar language in the 90s and 2000s in their attempts to pretend that ADHD and autism were "fake diseases" and even trying to pass laws and filing lawsuits to keep Ritalin and Adderall out of schools.
@tzimmer_history always has been.
His existence shoud've driven everyone from the times decades ago
@tzimmer_history trying to play like transgender rights have nothing to do with disability rights and the need to change how disability rights were written in the first place; since being transgender is cast into the same light as being a compulsive thief…
instead of considering the real effects of gender dysphoria… and the reality of treatment and what can be done…
A lot of linguistic wires were crossed in order to make healthcare denial acceptable.
The reality that people use the word transgender to mean transsexual and to mean a person with gender dysphoria with no difference in any of these. Not all transgender people get medicalized because transgender people are wide and various and can include drag queens, butch lesbians, femgays, people with non stereotypical with their sex behavior or dress. Transsexual is a medical term which only includes those who transition to the opposite sex.
Gender dysphoria is a medical term which can even apply to somebody who is cis Who does not feel their physical appearance is masculine or feminine enough. And they may get some work done in order to have a presentation that more aligns with their sex.
it doesn’t exclusively include transsexuals, but it does include all transsexuals. but not all who are transgender. there is a gray area of gender dysphoria because non-binary. It’s complicated.
I personally see a lot of wires getting crossed around the intersex movement, which is where I see everything starting from.
The human rights violations that were historically caused because of trying to force people into binary sex categories are vast.
Link to 2005 intersex human rights investigation.
https://sf-hrc.org/sites/default/files/Documents/HRC_Publications/Articles/A_Human_Rights_Investigation_Into_the_Normalization_of_Intersex_People.pdf
At least some of the harm was coming from the medical professionals. Some of the mixed messages that were gripped on and created this moral panic we are currently seeing. And none of these anti-transgender laws are addressing the real issues happening to intersex kids. They explicitly make exceptions to continue to allow it.
It’s like… Are you reading “The Transsexual Empire”? While people are claiming that point of view is completely new? Or are we finally going to advanced to “A human rights investigation into the medical normalization of intersex people: A report of A public hearing by the human rights commission of the city of San Francisco”
A report which has many of the same sorts of players mentioned in it and is a direct debunking of an assumed argument.
also in case you haven’t read it, and I’m a big believer in reading the opposition’s books,
https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-20_5c91a4ba712fd_document26.pdf
Here is a PDF for the most transphobic book of all time. Because if you don’t read it, you won’t know what you’re fighting. Make sure you read that human rights report notice the language. Very interesting isn’t it? And people just let the intersex report never be brought up.
Exactly! There was a joke comic of how many Netflix specials, talk-show guests, and book deals there were about how comedian X was "cancelled".
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