One thing that never really gets said but everyone knows is true is that one of the reasons transphobes are so focused on preventing trans teens from stopping their bodies' natural puberties is that it scares them if they can't immediate "tell" if a person is trans.
They push to delay transition because it results in trans people looking more "visibly trans," which is what the transphobes want.
It's why the theme of "omg, you hooked up with a duuuuuuuuuuddddeeeee?!?!" stuff in movies (The Crying Game, Ace Ventura, etc.) was so popular for so long: it reflects a real anxiety about being "tricked."
And so certain portions of society take it upon themselves to make sure trans people are as visibly trans as possible: they feel entitled to know if someone is trans.
It's all based on really gross transphobic tropes.
A lot of people genuinely seem to think they have some sort of right to know if their coworkers or acquaintances are trans. That's absurd. They don't. It's a wild invasion of privacy.
So they push for policies that make it easier to clock us. It's a big old sexist attack.
"Respectfully, this is madness"
No, what is "madness" is a bunch of idiotic non-experts jumping in to side with people who WANT TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO BE TRANS because they stayed in a fucking Holiday Inn Express last night.
What's "madness" is thinking that decisions about medical care for children should be left to THE STATE and not parents. THAT is what is "madness."
@parkermolloy I'd like to offer that decisions should be made by the children involved, and only while lacking capacity to do so, by their parents. Medicine already has both formal and informal approaches for judging a patient's capacity to consent to treatment, used in many instances such as prescriptions for birth control.
I know that many of these zealots would flip out at the notion that children can/should have agency but incremental demands always fail us.
the cruelty is the accursed point.
because the objective is power.
power through fear is relatively easy until it’s not, but hatred and bigotry and the choice to inflict pain on others and self, to use a computing analogy, chews up so much processing ability of the brain and mind that it renders these fools desperately trying to convince others to make a human nonhuman, 1=0, noticeably less intelligent.
i’ll talk about the best way to power after my 2^33 repeated steps.
@everywhereist @parkermolloy Are they against puberty blockers for cis kids, or just for trans kids?
I haven’t been able to find numbers on this, but I’d be surprised if the primary users of puberty blockers weren’t cis kids with precocious puberty.
I notice we never hear about their bone density.
They get their mindless talking point from maga propaganda and they just repeat it instead of interrogating it.
Its the same pattern whenever maga defends power. "Hate the sin, love the sinner." "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." "Playing the race card." "Medical freedom." "States rights." etc, etc.
It always the same tactic, they just plug in whatever the maga comms consultants found tested best on low-information voters.
There's a certain mode of thought which relies on knowing that we're strong enough that they can't ignore us...
But I don't really want to be seen that way. I just want them to stop hurting us. Let them sit in their own box and mutter their imprecations about how everyone different is wrong in 280-character screeds.
Being trans is great. Being ourselves is great.
Living as ourselves would be great, were we allowed to live as ourselves.
(Please hold on. We need to.)
@parkermolloy Which pretty much explains this abominable behavior:
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Reductive as the point may be, I like to equate it to the birthmark question.
Would you randomly ask someone if they have a birthmark? Where it is? How big, what shape, the extent to which it affects their lives?
Would you disrobe a person, sometimes forcibly, to determine if they have such a birthmark? Would you scream at them for hiding a birthmark? Would you demand they wear patches on their clothes stating they have one?
It's not that different.
For the longest time, they have asked these questions -- questions with as much verity as the old saw "have you stopped beating your wife" - of those they hate, with no recompense or redound. I wish this were the instance which causes them to finally stop. I know it's not.
More, their office demands they ask these supposed questions. It's for what they were voted into office.
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The very question of a period! Even for non-menstruating folks, it's like, hey, dude? If you're going to regale us with the details of the rash you oh-so-mysteriously obtained the other night, don't pule when we tell you that it feels like our abdomens are trying to turn inside out.
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