Transgender Facebook content dominated by right-wing sources, study finds.

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[–]fr_bandersnatchghey... 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Except I resent being lumped in with the right. I believe boundaries, push-back, and legitimate questioning of pro-TRA assertions are in order and are the duty of both sides of the aisle. I'm also believe trans people should not be subject to violence, harassment, discrimination, etc. I respect people's requested names and pronouns. I would classify myself as a liberal, the right does not align with my views. I resent being painted as part of the right because my beliefs on the trending views on biology, gender, single-sex spaces, and child development are not in step with TRA. Especially when the homophobic, conversion-therapy-esque voices within TRA which are very much in the vein of the religious right upbringing I escaped are very present.

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

Also, the right isn't our friend. At all. The similarities are very much surface-level. Both me and some right-wing nutjob can probably "agree" on some headline, but when it comes to actual issues, we'd quickly be angry at one another.

The right is homophobic and sexist. They are other anti-human things too, but those two are relevant. As soon as someone isn't homophobic and sexist anymore, they're not right-wing anymore.

Though it doesn't help that the terminology can mean a million different things, which I make use of when I talk like that, because "the right" isn't explicitly just one party, or even everyone who's "conservative". The American Sports Team Politics are just not useful to discuss LGB and TQ issues in the real world, and I for one am somewhat happy that currently a lot of points of discussion are coming out of the UK, where not every thought is automatically linked to a party, or a specific politician.

[–]Archie 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

100% agreed. This is why we have to start speaking up. People have to know that being against TRA bullshit does not make you right-wing.

And leftists need to know that they can push back the TRA bullshit without having to accept all the right-wing bullshit as well. Spreading this message will definitely increase our ranks.