Is reddit just filled with AI content at this point? Are there any actual humans left on it? Look at the comments on this post about trans women being banned from female wards in hospitals.

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[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're right, it's a semantic issue. The question is what the word "accept" means.

To me, "accept" just means "I'm not gonna fuck with it." Like if there's a spider web on my ceiling, I "accept" that if I don't knock the web down with a broom. I don't have to be friends with the spider, I don't have to say it's a good thing the web exists, I just have to not knock the web down.

And I think acceptance of LGBT people is the same thing. As long as you don't bully them, don't advocate for locking them up, don't do anything to harm them, just let them live their lives in peace... that's acceptance.

And I think acceptance is what we should all be trying to get to. Not condemnation, not celebration, just "Oh, you're trans? Well, okie dokie then. Best of luck to you in your travels."

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Oh yeah, I agree with all that.

The issue is that what LGBT people see as "harm" is not really a lot of other people's ideas of "harm" (same with "bullying"). The easiest example is pronouns. If you 'misgender' a person or refuse to call them something other than what they appear to be, many LGBT people will call this violence. They want constant validation from the world, they want special treatment, rather than to be left alone. It's easy to leave them alone because I honestly don't care about them and can't relate to their lifestyle. It's the fact that they are loud and demanding (and not all of them are, I will concede) and impose themselves on others that goes against their own idea of tolerance.