Most transgender people can't have nice things because, very often, they exhibit obnoxious behaviors and a huge self-entitlement that renders any sympathy for them very difficult, if not impossible. Also, many transgenders are just people experiencing acute mental illness derived from, not from rejection from others, but from their own rejection of who they are. For example, many MTF's don't seek males but females. Can you see the imbalanced loop? A man turned into a "woman" that still seeks to fuck woman, as he would as if he was still a man.
By now I'm probably already labelled a transphobe, so I might as well keep going. I don't have any issues with lesbian, gays, bisexuals, etc. But I do have tons of issues with the remaining (and increasing) LGBT alphabet soup. Woman with beards and dicks??? Who the fuck, on their right mind would deem such specimens as sane individuals? If you're really a men trapped inside a woman's body, at least try to pass and behave as one. And don't get me started on non-binaries and other made up definitions of nonsense. Their true meaning is mental illness.
And, you can't legislate acceptance. On a sane society, acceptance comes from the collective understanding that something is deemed as acceptable. You can try to force acceptance through indoctrination (which is what we see on a daily basis), but it will tend to fail on the long-run.
I'm going to agree strongly with your first line, but the rest of your arguments are
invalid for a number of reasons. All of you take note of this exchange.
@TakeSoma has presented a coherent argument without personally insulting me and I've responded to them without insulting them.
First and foremost, the people you see calling themselves transgender advocates on the social networks are just random individuals unqualified to speak for anybody but themselves with absolutely no stature within established advocacy organizations. You should be able to see pretty clearly from the tenor of my own writings on these topics and the opinions of the authors i share , that they are light years from those exceptional drama queens. the screed says demanding equal protection under the law is everybody's obligation as a citizen, but demanding special treatment is just being an asshole. For me, pragmatism always takes precedence over partisanship and principles always precede party.
the man turned into a woman isn't an accurate description of what's happening and transgender people come in ace, bi, hetero and pan, just like cisgender people.
In simplest terms, the medical consensus is that sex is determined by what sort of gamete your gonads produce , gender identity is determined (as best they can tell) by a mosaic of brain structures and some people are simply mismatched between their sex and gender. Gender Identity is just as biological as your sex, but gender expression is a cultural construct and conditioning begins immediately. This is where the behavioral health issues start for transgender people; being bullied by their own parents and siblings into being something that they don't feel themselves to be. My brother and his friends lined up to give me my daily punches to make a man out of me.
You seem to be receptive to alternative idea. You are clinging to arbitrary standards for gendered behavior that were established by people who consider you their property. The medical consensus on gender non-conformance is that there is nothing at all pathological about it. The people who are mentally unwell are people who stigmatize people who push the envelope on what is or isn't acceptable to their own personal belief systems. If you don't like it, don't look. Your sensibilities do not give you the right to traumatize people who aren't hurting anything but your sensitivities.
Here you are concerned about being legally forced to respect these people you perceive as perverts and freaks' rights to equal protection under the law, while you no doubt loudly support , the don't say gay bill, banning transgender athletes from school sports and criminalizing affirmative pediatric gender care. Do you see the imbalanced loop in your own reasoning?
“ most transgender people are pretty conservative in their sexual practices” that’s a fuckin’ lie. They bring the whole shit out in public. I guess this shit is normal to a pedo like you, tommy.
Most transgender people I've met, and that's thousands, are relatively conservative sexually. I know some pretty kinky people and some serious train wrecks, like stephanie fritsch,
but if they make up 10% of the total, that would be a lot.
I am not a pedo. the single contact with a minor i had does not constitute pedophilia, nor are any of the interpretations of things i've said about masturbating valid either. I will not argue with you about this and if you wish to have discourse with me, you'll let that go, please.
If most troons were actually minding their own business and not engaging in drama, 90% of normal people wouldn't care about their existence. The reason people don't like troons is because they post their degeneracy all over the internet (like abiut how they fuck dogs and children, Thomas) or try to make themselves look so enlightened about gender and try to groom kids into it( also you, Thomas). Pretty much nobody cares what consenting adult humans do behind closed doors, Thomas. You yourself make an unnecessary spectacle of yourself every time you post here.
lol. you all provide me with a lot of cannon fodder for the community i'm protecting by posting in this virtual toilet full of transphobic talking turds. the fact of the matter is that you insane infantile internet insistoids are the ones constantly talking about me fucking animals and children, proof of that in this thread, on an entirely different topic , that you are all talking about it. Talk away, dumb asses.
If it makes you feel any better, garden-variety gay dudes and lesbian dudettes have de facto become the 'straights' of the LGBT community; i.e., the ones with most perceived societal privilege, with all but the most regressive elements of modern society just shrugging their shoulders at the sight of two guys holding hands. When the histrionic attention whores of the movement eventually call down the wrath of the pendulum swinging back, the people who just want to be as normal as possible while being gay are likely to still be accepted.
What makes me feel better is that you made an intelligent comment on topic without insulting me. thank you.
it is a pretty accurate assessment of the playing field. The scientific findings and legal precedents in case law are so strongly in our favor in the US , that the Overton Window has shifted to where most people wish everybody would STFU about sexual orientation and gender identity. Sex isn't a spectator sport and they're sick of it constantly being in their news feeds. Most trans people want to be seen like any male or female from the belly button up and everybody we meet stop making such a big deal about our bits. I'm grateful to be living in Tucson, where the majority see me as female and hardly anybody needs an explanation when i tell them I'm not male. The only time I feel any need to explain is when they start apologizing too much.
I think the current garden variety gay dudes are popularly called twinks and bears. I met a gay guy the other day who calls his partner his husband, but his partner also refers to him as his husband. the ladies still use butch, bull and femme and don't use dyke. i don't see them use husband or wife, but more often partner or mate.
There is so much variation under the transgender umbrella and the nomenclature shifts a lot, with terms falling in and out of favor between factions, like tranny, it's like trying to walk through a minefield with vertigo. To some, it's what they call themselves and to others it's like being called a faggot or nigger.
When you learn to celebrate diversity and judge people on their words and deeds, it becomes easy to accept anybody who's nice, interesting and you feel safe to be around and reject mean, stupid people who make you feel unsafe, no matter what color, gender, economic bracket or anything else about them.
Yeah, I'm hopeful that like with other pedulum swings, it will be partial, and the well-to-do gay couple with stable employment will be viewed differently than the pervert hobo trannie or the degenerate diaperfag. I know that he was a bit of a nerd loser, but I do find it funny that people were dunking on Buttigieg for being too respectably normal a gay man. That is where we are now, where if you aren't wearing fetish gear in public, you're a traitor to the cause.
E; I'd also like people to have a sense of shame again. Like I swear, I don't understand how troons can be the way they are online. I can tell a straight person that I love my partner without mentioning my junk, but troons like Tom explicitly tie their fucking identities and origin stories to masturbation habits. Andrea Long Chu did it too, where she admitted that she consumed sissy fetish porn before transitioning.
The main reason that the framers made the first amendment so broad was that they were confident that the reason of the majority would overshadow harmful opinions of extremists. Extremism on the right and left on this issue has become highly unpopular. A solid majority is taking a live and let live position, insisting that Christians have no right to legislate their morality on anybody else. In both the Masterpiece Bakery vs Colorado and Bostock vs Clayton County decisions the court made it clear that the natural born human rights of an individual trump the civil rights of religious organizations and their sincerely held beliefs.
When the left extreme makes a spectacle go viral, the mainstream LGBTQ+ advocacy community pretty much goes into self protect mode, clearly distancing themselves from wingnuts making scenes fighting with Christians, TERFs and nazis or doing incredibly creepy shit, like jessica yaniv. The people who live according to the Golden Rule will find the compromise between the CISHET and LGBTQ+ people who can come to consensus about what is acceptable in public and the freaks will stay on the fringes where they belong. Pride Festivals are becoming pretty mainstream. Gay districts are disappearing as straights and gays mix more. There are only a few exclusively queer bars here any more and queers can go anywhere. I've seen drag queens partying with frat boys in sports bars.
i can only speak for myself. i talk about it because i was surgically altered and it resulted in an overactive penis that was getting erect way too often from a pretty young age. Masturbation is much more of a therapeutic chore than erotic pleasure for me. Can you talk to your partner about masturbation? Do you masturbate each other?
As a faggot myself, a colossal one even, I am happy that I have lived to see a time where my partner could get on my health insurance when the pandemic shut down half the world. But, I have been really thinking about the way the modern gay-rights movement allowed for the current gender lunacy to form. And part of me really feels that the creation of the gay identity, as a separate state of being, was a mistake.
I grew up in Chicago's gayborhood and have watched this all evolve since the late 50's. orientation and gender identity are just as biological as sex and yes, there really are only two reproductive sexes, but gender is not dependent on sex and there are four basic gender configurations; a, bi, cis and trans and there are also 6 karyotypes and 39 intersex body variations described. I've always resented homosexual men monopolizing the term. When the Internet queer online community opened up to me in 1999, it appeared that the UK was way ahead of us in acceptance of queer lifestyles and since then, you've gone backward while the US has gone forward .
I could go on a long complex rant about why I think that it would have been possible in modern society to acknowledge that same-sex attraction and gender-variant behaviour is normal enough across human history and across the animal kingdom that pathologizing it was wrong, without "gay" and "queer" becoming the mess of identity politics it has evolved into.
Watch the Mama Bears documentary and read this from Adam Briggle today. The pendulum is swinging hard in favor of letting kids be kids and granting queers equal protection under the law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...BUZhASEbPFjfrcoLMonZ8rcTKY1SpR6RRyNSccrbAdobA
That, while it was never true that homosexuality was celebrated in the premodern world the way modern queer revisionism pretends it was, the grey area it existed in varied a lot more than modern societies would admit. So my pitch is that we should have aimed for assimilationism from the get go, and pushed back hard against the queers who got all offended at that idea.
Most peaceful, egalitarian societies at least tolerated homosexuality and often elevated transgender people to positions of stature. many ancient priestesses in the ME were transgender and there was a trans pharaoh or two. there are over 1500 mentions of 6 genders in ancient Hebrew writing.
I get why the movement redefined it as a gay identity as a separate category of humanity, as a cultural category which really comes out of the gay subculture of certain cities being spread across the entire country and world. It's an effective political organizing strategy. But I feel it sent the wrong message to society, the rested acceptance on this narrative of oppressions and victimhood that was very easy for other groups to take up, instead of trying to argue from a more evidence based point of view that could have rested on limiting government interference in private lives. Everything from furries to modern troons have used the playbook to worm their way into people's good graces, to various degrees of success.
that there may be why the UK went backward and the US went forward. self determination and body autonomy are central to the argument here. everybody is valid here as long as they're not demanding assholes.
Its ironic because the first trans people, who got the landmark rulings in the 70's in the US that allowed for trans people to marry as their chosen gender, were essentially the most assimilationist. They chose to maintain the outward facade of heterosexuality in order to gain a degree of acceptance.
Since the Coy Mathis ruling in 2013, thousands of closeted trans women and hundreds of post ops who had been in stealth for decades to stand with the parents to help #protectranskids.
Modern troons are not that. They're a bunch of fetishistic males desperately trying to gain access to female spaces, often men with huge resentment towards women as gatekeepers of sex. The type of men who might take advantage of teen girls, or bear extreme anger and resentment towards their mothers. But because they can effectively craft (or steal) a narrative of suffering, everybody is too scared of being seen as cruel to call them out.
this is where i'm going to call bullshit. i'm not going to deny that these people exist, but they are few and far between. Trans women are far more likely to take advantage of men with fat wallets than teenage girls. Stephanie once bragged to me about sucking over a hundred dicks in vegas one night.
The truth is that transgender women have one of the lowest incidences of perpetrating rapes and are among the highest as victims of rape.