Mastodawn

I’m not trans. As far as I know, my kids aren’t at the moment. Nobody in my family is. None of my good friends are. I don’t prescribe medication for gender affirming care. I don’t specifically treat folks for gender dysphoria. So why do I give a fuck?

You don’t punch down. There’s no transgender machine producing trans judiciary and trans politicians and trans PACs to come for my cisgender. There are trans folks being discriminated against, outed, beaten, jailed, and killed. I hate bullies.

Roy -- the dull one 17h ago

Right on! One of the most contemptible kinds of behavior is when people join an orgy of viciousness because they want to be one of the mob kicking someone who is down and helpless. You have to be a sick dimwit to persecute trans people the way MAGA bullies are doing now.

Katrina Katrinka

@mcnado
If human rights can be taken away from any human, then none of us have enforceable rights.

@katrinakatrinka @mcnado 🎯

garland 16h ago

@mcnado Also, strict legal and vigilante enforcement of binary gender norms put everyone in danger. Even if you’re not trans.

Bruce Mirken 16h ago

@mcnado I'm not trans either, and definitely not a physician or other healthcare provider. But because I have trans friends, I still felt a need to write this, ICYMI: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/attacks-on-transgender-americans-are-attacks-on-health-care

Attacks on Transgender Americans Are Attacks on Health Care | Common Dreams

This is not difficult: Gender-affirming care is health care, period, and decisions about that care belong to patients and their health care providers (and families in the case of minors), not politicians on an ideological crusade.

Common Dreams

Mat Wright 16h ago

@mcnado there is a trans nurse who does intake for the Nanaimo hospital ID clinic daily, and frankly no one gives a shit - she does her job well, my son adores her

liferstate 16h ago

@mcnado There's been a slo-mo trans migration wave since the first bathroom ban laws 10+ yrs ago. Detroit's a relatively cheap city in a safe state, so I've seen this firsthand. Since 2024 many trans people with the means to do so are focused on leaving the country. I'm not in personal danger at the moment, nor is my HRT supply, but I too have an exit plan.

tranarchy_punk_transgender

@mcnado

Considering that at least 10% of Gen Alpha identify as trans or non-binary and the actual number of trans and non-binary people is likely even higher because there is heavy suppression, you probably know quite a few trans and non-binary people but they have not disclosed that to you or in general...

A statement such as "nobody in my family is" is quite jarring. Statistically there must be trans and/or non-binary people in your family. Sadly though, they apparently don't feel safe enough to come out, or they've been sufficiently indoctrinated that they don't even realize that they're trans... As I had during the first 40+ years of my life before realizing that I'm non-binary...

@mcnado
Very well said

EndlessMason 13h ago

@mcnado
I mean, what's next?! Something else that's none of my business and doesn't effect me in any way?!

Stupeflo 13h ago

@mcnado You might know some trans people actually, they just might be in the closet because of what you said in the second part of your post.

Forse (he/him)13h ago

@mcnado There's a lot of good reasons to stand up to bigotry in general and transphobia in particular.

But "I hate bullies" is a very good one and should be mentioned more often.

🦩 Plastic Garden Fauna 🦩12h ago

@mcnado 🙌🏽🫶🏼💯

sNOWFLAKE ❄️ iNDUSTRIES 12h ago

@mcnado „First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me“

Martin Niemöller, 1946

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱11h ago

Nobody at my last job knew I was trans, or even the job before that. But aggressive Epstein club politicians are trying to change that...

Gregg Alley 10h ago

@mcnado My church has several trans members and many other members of the queer community. If folks stopped ostracizing them and took time to get to know them , they would realize that they are wonderful people! 👍

@Galley @mcnado

Absolutely! I have no close contact with any trans people, but know two are.

One was a professional contact who wrote some software we used at work. After they came out, I figured "so what, their code and customer support was what I cared about." That wasn't going to change

The other is a woman I met as a woman. There were some bigots in our hobby community that made a point of saying she used to be male. So what? She has always been a pleasant person when we have talked

@Galley @mcnado

As Chuck Berry said "Live like you want to live"

epicdemiologist 10h ago

@mcnado Well, my kid IS trans and I'm grateful as hell for support from people who don't have that direct connection. Thank you!

Duckbilled Plattypus.9h ago

@mcnado Bullying - the deliberate torment or targeting of the weak/those with less ability to defend themselves on equal terms - is an ethical and a moral wrong. It only matters if you have a conscience. It is your inner witness to your own commitment to a just and fair world.

@mcnado even for a straight cis person, letting go of strict gender dichotomy is liberating. You don’t have to judge people for being genderfluid. You don’t have to struggle to identify someone’s ambiguous gender, it doesn’t actually matter (unless you plan to interact respectfully, in which case, do that) These are dumb behaviors that serve no purpose that we’ve been trained into, we should train out of them.

Frosch B 9h ago

@mcnado i'm not trans. one of my three friends is. for the rest of it there's what @mcnado says

Mason Loring Bliss 8h ago

@mcnado Adjacent to that, it's our obligation as good people to shield victims and help anyone less fortunate than ourselves.

@mcnado
Thank you for the public support!
@alice

Toni Aittoniemi 8h ago

@mcnado That’s the thing isn’t it…

Majorities never have to think about anyone else.

But minorities, by force, always have to develop the intuition that there are a lot of people who don’t experience the world the same.

Sadly, very little incentives have been put towards the majority feeling the need to develop this intuitition. And the incentives we did have are rapidly being burned at the stake.

@mcnado Best thing I've read today. Damn. If only everyone could see this.

@mcnado my parents didn't used to understand or support trans folks, but when the politicians started targeting them more, they educated themselves and became allies because "I may not understand trans people, but I know a political scapegoat when I see one."

Adam Davis 7h ago

@mcnado
I agree with the "no punching down" argument, as well as the "slippery slope / they came for the communists" argument. But I'd like to see the "freedom to live your life as you like" argument more. We should all support people's right to live their lives how they want to. I want that right. I want my friends and family to have that right. So, I should want others to have that right. This is (an aspect of) freedom, and it needs to be sold that way.

:EA DATA. SF:7h ago

@mcnado I appreciate allies who vocally and visibly support us and recognize our shared humanity.

You don't have to, but you do. Thank you.

staringatclouds 7h ago

@mcnado Thank you

@mcnado we protect the most vulnerable, because until ALL OF US are free, none of us really are.

Keep truckin'.

MidgePhoto 6h ago

@mcnado
Sports can relabel themselves as Open and (some description which for most people amounts to "women" but has more specified content).
Everyone needs places to pee, so let's provide places to pee.

Small subsubgroups want trouble, best to leave them in a vacuum.

wattevans 5h ago

@mcnado I do have trans friends and relatives. They aren't bothering anyone. Why are they getting all this crap?

Let people live as they choose.

@wattevans Convenient target of the day. 20 years ago, it was gays. Before that, Muslims. Before that, Blacks. Before that, Catholics. Jews. Italians. Irish. Chinese. And I'm just looking at US history. Whomever is currently popularly unpopular, politically vulnerable, and economically powerless is convenient for anyone who wants to push an agenda. Most people are ignorant about gender identity and uncomfortable with it, and that's all that's necessary to demonize an entire demographic.

Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈3h ago

@mcnado I have a few good friends who transitioned during our friendship. I moved away, but I still consider them friends. And I still go to the event where we met, and I gotta say, I feel safer partying with them, then with Republicans.