People who stay optimistic about the future of the LGB movement and rights despite all the setbacks, what gives you hope?

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[–]ThiccDropkickGay 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Talking to my gay friends who have peaked and don’t buy the 500 genders rubbish anymore.

And askgaybros on reddit. Over 250,000 users strong and they’re all hilariously blunt in their dismissing and calling out trans dogma. It could get banned at some point but banning the biggest community of gay men on reddit would peak a huge number of people

[–]fuckupaddamsBisexual Terve 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Talking to my gay friends who have peaked and don’t buy the 500 genders rubbish anymore.

You're lucky you have those. I was given some kind of online intervention by my "friends" because they noticed I don't trip over myself to validate everyone's nonsense gender identity and any sentiment that's straight up anti-reality.

[–]ThiccDropkickGay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I guess I'm lucky. Even one of my gay mates who's a furry and pretty much epitomises the liberal degenerate stereotype agrees with me that there are only two genders

[–]fuckupaddamsBisexual Terve 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Female people tend to be harder to budge on that last part, I've noticed.

[–]artetolife 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm British and I think we have a pretty healthy attitude of skepticism that isn't compatible with these trans people's demands to just do whatever they want. Hence the recent ruling against 'puberty blockers'.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Peaking. More and more and more peaking. More kinds of push-back and re-thinking in more places. And threads like the one just posted after this one, where women are talking about the strangeness of this alien landscape and how it affects them. They are approaching awareness, even if they haven't hit the bullseye yet.

Also there are plenty of people who were never going to buy this crap in the first place, though we don't hear from them that often. Some of them are on this sub, though. And some of them are straight.

[–]deliciousdogfoodmy name isnt a puppyplay reference i swear 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Talking to people in the real world who instantly reject almost all of the GI movements ideologies/demands.

[–]PeakingPeachEaterfemale♀ | detrans🦎 | eater of peaches 🍑 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was about to say the same thing.

Currently, I work at a job that has a very..."progressive/woke" bubble(ex. my boss is trans male, my coworker goes back and forth between being a "pansexual" and bisexual instead of just sticking to bisexual, everyone is SUPER left leaning and talk about politics all day, etc), but outside of that there's a lot of normal people who don't agree with the TRA movement or don't give a crap in general.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Problem is the progressive woke are now in power over us.

[–]deliciousdogfoodmy name isnt a puppyplay reference i swear 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you're referring to the US, my outsider understanding of your congress led me to believe that while the republicans hold majority over the senate, it's unlikely that any crazy GI laws will go through because both the house and senate need to agree on the exact bill before it can be sent through to the president to sign into law. So they won't be able to just do whatever they want.

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The recent UK ruling gave me the will to live.

[–]shveya 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The woke homophobia fad is just so preposterous and outlandish. I see more and more peaking over genderist behavior all the time.

[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact that there's only one absolute truth, and that discovering that truth has led me to this community of supportive, thoughtful people. Trans rights activists can lie about biology and transgender medicalization all day, but in the end the truth will come out anyway. (Practically speaking-- the truth will come out for no other reason than that, here in the U.S. at least, people love to sue each other, so eventually there'll be enough incentive for the mainstream dialogue to acknowledge it.)

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What is optimism? I have none of that. Sometimes hopeful things happen, like the recent UK legal victory, but honestly I don't think it's enough. Combine that with a terrible personal life and it's hard for me to see the good in anything.

On the bright side, I may be alone, miserable and useless to society, but at least I haven't made the decision to invert my penis yet. Could always be worse, I guess...?