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[–]ThiccDropkickGay 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's such an empathetic person. I just hope more people wake up to this manipulation from trans men and women. There are of course the murder stats that get thrown around a lot but the suicide one is worse.

So many activists will talk about how you need to constantly validate trans people or else they'll just kill themselves - and it'll be your fault. It's nothing but emotional blackmail.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yes. Most of these trans people you see are middle class, narcissistic spoilt brats. They’re not vulnerable until their parents - who clean up after them - pass away or throw them out of the basement.

I will be honest, though. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea for a person with gender identity disorder to get hormonal replacement and a sex change operation. A man with gender identity disorder may feel an overwhelming conviction that he’s a woman, but no matter how much oestrogen he takes and no matter how much surgery he goes through, he’s still biologically a man. What’s the point? Even if you rule out homosexuals who suffer from internalised homophobia and victims of child abuse, and narrow it down to those who have severe gender identity disorder, does this really help them? Because all you are doing is pretending out of respect for them. Am I wrong I’m this thinking?

Nevertheless, there is no doubt that a black, homosexual transwoman who works as a prostitute on the streets of Caracas is far more vulnerable than a white, heterosexual non-binary girl in who goes to college in Seattle. But would this transwoman in Caracas be a transwoman if Venezuela was a gay friendly country in which society does not routinely emasculate gay men? I don’t think so. And if Venezuela was properly run, this homosexual in question would not even need to resort to prostitution.

[–]just_lesbian_things 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Because all you are doing is pretending out of respect for them.

Also, how much are you entitled to other people's effort? I don't put effort into pretending it's the 1950s for patients of dementia in my everyday life. Those people are given custom care at specialized locations by people trained and prepared for it. I don't have to do that for a coworker. There isn't a blanket ban on fireworks because it triggers some people's PTSD or aggravates some people's sensory disorders. Those people are taught skills that helps them deal with their problems. It's not up to everyone else to manage someone's mental health disorder. I'm not a therapist.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even things like PTSD with fireworks can be helped. My father has PTSD and he has methods he can do lessen the blow when triggers happen, but fair warning can also be extraordinarily helpful. He would never ask people to not use fireworks, but if he knows when they'll go off, he can prepare himself beforehand or maybe even just plan to be out of the area during that time.

For people with legitimate problems, I do think courtesy like warning them before setting off explosives is more helpful than it could ever be inconvenient for the person setting off fireworks, but pretending reality is different for someone should never be considered a requirement. Pretending that someone was born the opposite sex and using their pronouns, allowing them to do whatever they want without consequence, or having sex with someone you aren't attracted to is way too far. If they had stopped at pronouns, I might have agreed with them, but when a slippery slope appears, I pull all the way back out.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sorry to hear about your father. It’s good that he is proactive with his PTSD rather than expecting everyone else to accommodating him. But hopefully his friends and family are understanding and warn him in advance. It’s still nice to be respectful to people. However, having gender identity disorder is not the same as having PTSD.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It seems like people who actually suffer from PTSD and similar disorders don’t ask as much as people with gender dysphoria demand.

[–]just_lesbian_things 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've never hear anyone with PTSD ask for anything at all, to be honest.

[–]ChodeSandwichtender and moist 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think it's helpful to pretend either. I maintain my position that a ton of trans mental health issues are a result of teaching people that their minds/brains can be so sage and wise and know a person's true nature better than they know themselves. It's poison! Nobody is capable of totally partitioning off their emotions and beliefs into neat sections like "well my brain is absolutely correct in that I'm really a (wo)man, but when I can't stop hating myself or worrying about people staring at me that's 100% wrong." It's just not possible to keep going over long stretches of time, period, we are organic shitting machines with soft brains, welcome to real life.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Furthermore, this transgenderism ideology falls apart when you raise the possibility of changing your race or ethnicity. For example, Rachel Dolezal.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Relevant to the title claim:

In most first world countries, trans people have the privilege of changing their "legal sex", getting SRS, etc, right?

Well, did you know that, as far as I can tell, very few countries grant intersex infants the right to bodily autonomy? Meaning that, if a child is born with a visible intersex condition (genital abnormality) they can be cosmetically "fixed" or given SRS against their consent, which not only does not "cure" an intersex condition, it is cosmetic and usually causes the person to develop a ton of health issues later in life.

It's really, REALLY hard to find the facts, because LGBT+ activists have basically shit all over anything intersex related on the internet (If you google intersex rights, for example, a bunch of pages about "trans rights" come up. Fuckin' narcissists.)

The Wikipedia article ( which I don't usually trust as a site for LGBT+ and intersex related crap because it's HEAVILY biased, claims that only the following countries have any kind of protection for bodily autonomy in intersex people:

Albania

Malta

Portugal

India

Uruguay

But I don't know how true that is or what the details are.

There's also cases like a 2019 bill in Iceland, where, along with creating a "third gender category" for nonbinary people, there was going to be a law that prevents unnecessary intersex surgeries at birth too. However they dropped intersex protections because, "they thought the bill would not pass if they kept it in." Literally saying that people want some trivial "third gender" nonsense, which will be used by a VERY small minority in Iceland mostly consisting of non-Icelandic people, more than people want an entire group to have the right to making their own life alterating, cosmetic choices about their body and health.

I know I talk about being intersex a lot on here, but I need to emphasize just how fucked up this is. Especially since TRAs use the existence of intersex people in their campaigns and talking points. Never forget that, while they're demanding more "rights" like free cosmetic surgery and the right to have sex with anyone they please, intersex people with visible disorders are forcibly being given SRS as babies and having their lives affected forever.

And it's not just intersex people, either. There are actually many groups that are at a serious disadvantage or outright oppression even in first world or "progressive" countries, but transgender people insist they have it "the worst" when they have access to all the cosmetic surgery and unnecessary meaningless shit they need to validate them. Well, guess what? Some of us have worse problems than "validation." Some people have physical issues, like being forcibly "made into a girl" via a botched "sex reassignment" at birth because the doctors thought your dick looked too small or different. Some people have disabilities that prevent them from working, but can't get adequate financial support thanks to a greedy and uncaring disability system, leaving them in poverty. Some people have serious mental health problems that affect their daily lives beyond "boo hoo I wish I was a girl because anime porn." Some people face serious real world discrimination for being of a different ethnicity or background, not "discrimination" in the form of odd looks because they're a 6'4" middle aged man in a pink wig and ill-fitting cosplay dress.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Only five countries protect intersex people from infant genital mutilations? That is fucked up. Especially the case about Iceland. Yes, you do talk a lot about intersex issues. And that’s a good thing. Keep talking about these issues. It helps to expose the truth about this LGBTI monstrosity and how it harms everyone who’s not trans or non-binary. Not to mention that even LGB people who want to drop the T are ignorant about intersex people. I used to be ignorant until a few years ago. Now, intersex issues are separate from same-sex attracted issues, but the former issues are still real issues.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It baffles me that, something that nobody really knew about, hell something I didn't know that I had until a few years ago, suddenly took off thanks to TRA propaganda - but not in a way that helps. A way that harms.

Before, nobody knew what intersex was, a lot of intersex people didn't know what was up with them, and rights and healthcare were lacking because it was barely talked about.

But then LGBTQI+ crap happened, and now, people THINK they know what intersex is, but they think it's some weird "nonbinary sex" or "queer thing", and no legal progress has been made at all.

And the worst part is that, not enough people currently care to change things because it's such a small and lesser-known minority. So TRAs can get away with doing this and people genuinely believe they're "helping" because few people know better.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sorry to hear about that. Fuck TRAs.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think this video needs to be a series that gets into the details and looks at the "evidence" with a heavy focus on the HRC's own stats.