RE: Transgendered children
February 8, 2017 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2017 at 2:30 pm by Regina.)
(February 8, 2017 at 2:03 pm)Violet Wrote:To some small degree I feel your frustration on this, because (although nowhere near to the same level as trans people) the people you have issue with are also misrepresenting gay people. I don't respect a lot of that stupid "76 genders" shit said in the name of trans people on Tumblr either, or when they invent new trendy sexualities, they are creating a horrible image of the LGBT community.(February 8, 2017 at 11:49 am)The_Empress Wrote: Vae, you channeling Milo Y these days?
Our opinions couldn't be further apart in regards to transgenderism... but I can certainly understand the Right's general backlash towards trannies as a result of pushes by transtrenders and feminists. I can't respect that crap either.
Lot of frustration from the fact that they claim to represent me. I'm not particularly close to Blaire White either, given my willingness to say that I've never been a boy in my life (regardless of appearances and treatment by society)... but I still wouldn't want my parents to have just jumped right on board when I first told them.
I think the situation is complex, and a simple answer isn't possible without doing severe injustice to a number of children and adults. There's a solid contingent of me that says 'fuck it, let the damage be on their own heads' level of libertarianism... but there's another part of me that doesn't want to see children suffer. As I say, it's a complex issue. Hence my weighing in on it from the angle I feel is responsibly sane.
With that said though I think we need some more balance here. Based on your response to me I think we're on the same page where children transitioning is concerned, and I think we'd agree that 8 is a little too young. Having said that I wouldn't necessarily accuse these lesbian parents of being overly SJW and talking about "toxic masculinity" without evidence for it. This might have just been a kid who has been saying they're trans for a while, so I can have some more respect for it. I'm just prepared to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
