What is it about anti-trans people that they are so fucking obsessed with trans people? Like, they make hating trans people a core tenant of their entire character.
In 30+ years in a Western country I never met any transgender people in my entire life, but on this website it seems like 1 in fourth people are (and 75% people claim to be neurodivergent).
Never had a problem with them online, never threaten my way of life or wish my kids or myself any harm.
It’s seem like a US politics theatrical bullshit, once again, exported to Europe.
It’s so fucking annoying on reddit. You can’t even start an argument with them on completely unrelated subjects, it’s just “transphobic” and boom, downvotes
Your post tries to say a lot, while not saying anything at all. I have arguments with other trans people a lot, never been called transphobic in my life.
I just said this to someone else, but how do you know you haven’t met other trans people? I had a friend for years before I found out he was trans because he wrote a song about it. He was out, and lots of people knew, but it never came up. We had other things to talk about.
Yeah that’s for sure, but seing that some people crying about “The Trans Pedophile agenda” and never ever once it came up in my life, seems weird. And I grew Up in the Paris banlieue and now in the Lyon area, so no small villages either.
There IS no trans pedophile agenda, it’s right wingers inventing something to be mad about. They USED to be mad about “the blacks” or “the gays” but lost those battles in the court of public opinion.
Have to hate SOMEONE, and people were getting tired of Muslim hate, I guess.
It may be an age thing, I’m in my early 30’s, but I’ve met quite a few at varying stages of transition and in some cases I’ve not found out until way after the fact that their gender didn’t match up with their sex. Unlike what the anti-trans lot like to claim, they don’t shove it down people’s throats or make anywhere near as big a deal of it as the tabloids and Twitter like to believe.
The bigots will have you believe that trans people wear shirts that say “I’m teams and you must love me!” and are just itching to sign your kids up to HRT. In truth, they, like everyone else, just want to live their lives in peace.
I really dislike this line of thinking.Think it’s more that it has been shown to be dangerous for trans people to just exist as they are in public, whereas online they prob feel safer expressing their true self.
If you’ve gone 30+ years without ever meeting a trans person, maybe it’s cuz trans people have never felt safe being open about it with you?
That’s exactly what it is. A political wedge issue. For example the issue of trans women “dominating” sports because they were born male is now a super hot button topic, even though the NCAA actually dealt with this issue in 2011 and laid out a very reasonable policy which functioned fine for many years and did not result in any level of trans women “dominance” of women’s sports.
Surprise surprise, it’s because in the U.S. the liberals won gay marriage and the conservatives “won” abortion, and now the conservative outrage factory needs a new angle to keep single-issue voters in line. It’s hilarious how the right always accuses the left of playing identity politics when they’re the ones that conjure up issues out of nothing.
What I find confounding is how Europe continues to import our political issues. These countries, especially the right wing, are always so derisive of American politics, but always seem to end up fighting the same stupid fights we do here. The rise of fascism seemed to also get kicked into high gear after Trump. Aren’t y’all supposed to be proud to be better than us? Stop copying the worst of us.
Hating gay people isn’t as popular anymore so the right has moved on to the next group they hate.
30 years ago they made banners like this about gay people instead. 30 years before that it was about feminism. The right will always find some group they hate and claim is destroying society.
Saw a stat that right wing people engage with more trans related content on their social media feed than all other political leanings combined, even more than trans people themselves.
trans ppl are one of most marginalized groups who also have barely any representation in the public media, its a prime target for bullying when youre a horrible bigot, online spaces turn more and more into violent echo chambers so ppl get radicalized harder and faster than like 10 years ago.
Those ppl spend a lot of time online and Twitter’s new boss is openly pushig and supporting anti-trans voices for example. German Twitter is especially hateful and barely moderated.
Not to mention that a *lot* of Germans are still/again not rly socially progressive
barely any representation in the public media? bro are you crazy? they’re grossly overrepresented. considering how much you hear about them in in on social media and media in general you would think they would make up way more than tops 0.5% of the population, but they don’t. Come on man.
What is it about anti-trans people that they are so fucking obsessed with trans people? Like, they make hating trans people a core tenant of their entire character.
How is that banner connected to trans people? (Not a hater, I’m geniunely asking.)
What do you think “but only two genders” is referring too…
In 30+ years in a Western country I never met any transgender people in my entire life, but on this website it seems like 1 in fourth people are (and 75% people claim to be neurodivergent).
Never had a problem with them online, never threaten my way of life or wish my kids or myself any harm.
It’s seem like a US politics theatrical bullshit, once again, exported to Europe.
Hate of trans people is certainly not coming from the US.
It’s so fucking annoying on reddit. You can’t even start an argument with them on completely unrelated subjects, it’s just “transphobic” and boom, downvotes
Who is them? The transgender hivemind?
Your post tries to say a lot, while not saying anything at all. I have arguments with other trans people a lot, never been called transphobic in my life.
What makes you think this is a mindset that began in the US? Where do you think the US got most of its cultural values?
Oh yeah I just remembered the EU talking non-stop about this before the 2016 US election, my fault.
The soft power the USA got politically affect every countries in the whole wide fucking world, and especially culturally in Western countries.
I’ve met at least once in France, and working as a intern in public administration.
That’s the only I’ve met and she was at the reception in the prefecture.
I just said this to someone else, but how do you know you haven’t met other trans people? I had a friend for years before I found out he was trans because he wrote a song about it. He was out, and lots of people knew, but it never came up. We had other things to talk about.
You likely have and didn’t know it.
EXACTLY.
Yeah that’s for sure, but seing that some people crying about “The Trans Pedophile agenda” and never ever once it came up in my life, seems weird. And I grew Up in the Paris banlieue and now in the Lyon area, so no small villages either.
There IS no trans pedophile agenda, it’s right wingers inventing something to be mad about. They USED to be mad about “the blacks” or “the gays” but lost those battles in the court of public opinion.
Have to hate SOMEONE, and people were getting tired of Muslim hate, I guess.
Eh, it’s likely you haven’t noticed tbh. A lot of trans people just look like any regular cisgendered person, it’s not always visually noticeable.
And that’s exactly the reason why I don’t understand why people make such a big deal of it
It may be an age thing, I’m in my early 30’s, but I’ve met quite a few at varying stages of transition and in some cases I’ve not found out until way after the fact that their gender didn’t match up with their sex. Unlike what the anti-trans lot like to claim, they don’t shove it down people’s throats or make anywhere near as big a deal of it as the tabloids and Twitter like to believe.
The bigots will have you believe that trans people wear shirts that say “I’m teams and you must love me!” and are just itching to sign your kids up to HRT. In truth, they, like everyone else, just want to live their lives in peace.
I really dislike this line of thinking.Think it’s more that it has been shown to be dangerous for trans people to just exist as they are in public, whereas online they prob feel safer expressing their true self.
If you’ve gone 30+ years without ever meeting a trans person, maybe it’s cuz trans people have never felt safe being open about it with you?
The two traits are highly correlated.
That’s exactly what it is. A political wedge issue. For example the issue of trans women “dominating” sports because they were born male is now a super hot button topic, even though the NCAA actually dealt with this issue in 2011 and laid out a very reasonable policy which functioned fine for many years and did not result in any level of trans women “dominance” of women’s sports.
Surprise surprise, it’s because in the U.S. the liberals won gay marriage and the conservatives “won” abortion, and now the conservative outrage factory needs a new angle to keep single-issue voters in line. It’s hilarious how the right always accuses the left of playing identity politics when they’re the ones that conjure up issues out of nothing.
What I find confounding is how Europe continues to import our political issues. These countries, especially the right wing, are always so derisive of American politics, but always seem to end up fighting the same stupid fights we do here. The rise of fascism seemed to also get kicked into high gear after Trump. Aren’t y’all supposed to be proud to be better than us? Stop copying the worst of us.
this current wave of transphobia is a specifically British creation
You’ve met trans people before, you just didn’t realise
The two groups that disproportionately shout louder than their ‘opposition’ are anti-trans people and anti-vegan people.
There are two genders and you’ve just eaten two steaks - I could not give less of a shit about your attention seeking bullshit.
Hmmm Vegans definitely have certain groups that are pretty damn insufferable and authoritarian
Hating gay people isn’t as popular anymore so the right has moved on to the next group they hate.
30 years ago they made banners like this about gay people instead. 30 years before that it was about feminism. The right will always find some group they hate and claim is destroying society.
Jews,Blacks,women,gays, Trans peopleTrans people will become this generation’s minority scapegoat
When in reality it’s them
This is about the time they’ll claim Hitler was a leftist because the party name had “Socialist” in it.
Oh they‘re way ahead of you. Politicians of the German party AfD have claimed that the Nazis weren’t fascists, but in fact socialists
They have a point, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are having their election next week
Seems they have to go for ever smaller groups as well, in a 100 years all that’s left for the right to hate will be some dude named Thomas.
100% how I see it.
There needs to be an “other”.
Gay people aren’t any longer socially acceptable so they go after something else.
Women -> black people -> gay people -> transgender people -> ?
Shit’s dumb.
Yes they are my dude
He phrased it poorly. He meant it’s no longer acceptable to attack gay people.
Yeah okay, but have you seen Thomas
*tenet. But yeah, absolutely true.
You could say ‘tenant’ since trans people clearly live rent-free in their heads.
Wouldn’t a tenant be paying rent?
so you’re saying the transes are now squatters trying to get free welfare, and disrespecting those of us who pay rent to live in people’s heads?!!
Saw a stat that right wing people engage with more trans related content on their social media feed than all other political leanings combined, even more than trans people themselves.
Do you mean this one?
trans ppl are one of most marginalized groups who also have barely any representation in the public media, its a prime target for bullying when youre a horrible bigot, online spaces turn more and more into violent echo chambers so ppl get radicalized harder and faster than like 10 years ago.
Those ppl spend a lot of time online and Twitter’s new boss is openly pushig and supporting anti-trans voices for example. German Twitter is especially hateful and barely moderated.
Not to mention that a *lot* of Germans are still/again not rly socially progressive
barely any representation in the public media? bro are you crazy? they’re grossly overrepresented. considering how much you hear about them in in on social media and media in general you would think they would make up way more than tops 0.5% of the population, but they don’t. Come on man.
The fuck.
They’re over-represented in the news because they’re being used as a political tool by the right.
Trans people are incredibly over represented in the public media