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[–]LesbiSilly[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Thanks for this suggestion! And I just think it's overall too risky. But I have a few ideas.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't know where you are, but I think the tide has started to turn in the US, in part because of J.K. Rowling but also because the school sports issue, and also that a lot of parents are really uncomfortable with the "LGBTQ" sex ed now being taught in some school districts, which teaches sex is a spectrum, etc.

Huge swathes of Americans didn't even know "transphobia" is a thing, and if they were accused of it they'd probably shake their head bemused and then vote for Trump, in some completely delusional belief that Trump is in touch with reality.

[–]LesbiSilly[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am glad things are changing. It makes me feel better. And I think transphobia needs to be clearly defined. Because like homophobia, there ARE people who don't like LGB people for being themselves and are weird around them. And the same go for Trans, but the accusation has gotten out of hand. Am I making sense?

I think that hating someone for just being Trans or Homosexual is not good, when they are just living their life in peace. But most extremists aren't peaceful.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Kind of, but one can label anything a "phobia" in order to stigmatize opponents, and the trans lobby has admitted that it piggy-backed on gay organizations in order to get trans activist demands passed into law, so I personally don't like to use "phobias" to make examples, because many times one is valid while the other is not.

Women have every right to fear TiMs in their spaces, because they are men. And according to a survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality itself, 89% of US TiMs keep their male genitalia, and 63% are attracted to women, and US TiMs have an extrarordinarily high lifetime incarceration rate (19-65%), and in California and the UK more than 40% of jailed TiMs are sex offenders.

So what the trans lobby calls a "phobia" is really just very-defensible fear on women's parts

[–]LesbiSilly[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

True, one can label anything a phobia. And the whole concept of transphobia is out of control. And yeah, women always have a right to fear anyone they are feel called to fear.

And yeah, that stat about Sex offenders worries me a LOT.

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And yet the California state legislature just voted to allow self -identified TiMs into women's prisons.

Increasingly, words like "phobia" and "isms" are being used to silence us. I say, don't buy into the fear. Sometimes, when I talk to people about gender ideology, I start with the word "transphobia" itself, and how it's meaningless and meant to silence legitimate concern. That starts the conversation on the right note.