Aral BalkanIf youโre against trans rights, youโre against human rights. Because trans people are human beings and trans rights are human rights. You donโt get to pick and choose who qualifies as human.
Melissa BearTrix ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ@aral 100% right
I just read your profile and you make small things ... What do you make ?
I am a watch and clock maker
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@melissabeartrix Ah nothing as neat as what you do, Iโm afraid. I make small tech (https://small-tech.org). Currently trying to kickstart the Small Web (https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/).
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@aral thank you ... Curtsy ... I love your idea, the small web, reminds me of the internet when it started ... Best of luck
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Frank@aral Why the effort is made to dehumanize, starting with classification of more and less based on whatever real or ascribed traits. Or rather, the more is never described, just implied by what is exhaustively made less.
@fschaap Iโm sorry, Frank, maybe itโs just too early in the day but Iโm afraid I donโt follow :)
@aral Sorry, I was not writing as clearly as the thought presented itself to me. Too early for me too ;-) I was commenting on how denying people (human) rights, starts/goes with dehumanizing them. Traits are picked for which you are deemed less than others, for which you are less human. And the discourse's default 'full humanness' (like color, sexuality, gender, etc.) is not defined directly, but only implicitly by defining what deviates or detracts from your humanness. Insidious.
@fschaap Oh yes, indeed. Thanks for clarifying :)
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If we just stop a moment to think: who would want to subject themselves to the stigma (from bigots) & surgery that goes with being trans or LGBTQ+?
Considering how bizarre biology can be, we cis folk are just lucky that we're born in a way that fits the norm. We should be thankful for that and extend others the courtesy of striving to live as they are.
๐๐๐๐๐@aral Do we need two terms for the same thing?
@smokku As long as there are those who will deny people their rights if you use one of those terms, then yes, we do. So do we need the term trans rights? Yes, as long as people deny trans people their human rights, we do. Dropping the term โ not speaking of them โ plays straight into the hands of those who would have them forgotten as a prelude to erasing them from existence altogether.
@aral This allows the adversary to dictate framing of the discussion. Propping its divisive nature.
When people hear A and B in the discussion, they assume B differs somehow from A - otherwise just one term would be enough.
@smokku I do see your point and it is a valid concern. However, I feel we can do more good in explicitly stressing their equivalence in a climate where stating โBlack Rights Matterโ is met by some with โAll Rights Matterโ (ironically and yet also predictably enough, by those who donโt feel that Black rights do matter).
@aral Good analogy.
This is a good example of unfortunate framing.
Movement advocating against violations of people's rights directed at a specific group, picked up a language suggesting these are some different rights.
(Which was then exploited by "All Rights Matter" advocates.)