(July 26, 2020 at 10:34 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Look, if you’re at all interested in trying to understand the issue, you need to educate yourself.
A brief general primer: https://www.hrc.org/resources/understand...-community
A survey of trans rights in America (fun fact: until a fucking MONTH ago, Less than half of all US states had a comprehensive ban on discriminating against trans people in employment): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgende...ted_States
A look at trans poverty (while you may be right about the majority of trans people coming from wealthy backgrounds, and even that I doubt, it doesn’t mean a damn thing if your wealthy parents disown you for being trans.): https://nwlc.org/blog/income-security-is...er-survey/
Some information on trans harassment (because even if you have equal rights under the law, it doesn’t mean a damn thing if the people around you don’t give a shit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_bashing
Trans violence (because the shit that led to the death of Brandon Teena is still alive and well): https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-a...ty-in-2020
Medical discrimination (because last month, Trump rolled back a shitton of Obama-era protections in health care and many are still back at stage one): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...nistration
Hopefully, this will enlighten you. Assuming you give a shit, of course.
Hello. Without the intention of boasting, I would characterize myself as a fairly broad minded individual, and considerably more broad minded relative to the rest of society. So, I look forward to the distinct possibility of learning something new in reading from the resources you have kindly shared with me.
Nonetheless, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Wikipedia is not entirely an unbiased source of information. You might probably agree with me that initially it may have been so, but as with any encyclopedic source of knowledge that becomes commercialized and is both funded and administered by commercial interests, its content is manipulated to conform to a socio-political narrative that the commercial establishment has a vested interest in maintaining. I may add to this point by saying that if it was any other subject, I would most certainly give your Wikipedia sources the benefit of the doubt, and approach them as a student eager to learn and digest the information. But any content relating to issues surrounding the LGBTQ movement is bound to be considerably manipulated and distorted if that content is being produced by the commercial establishment. I hope to elaborate on this thesis of mine in the coming days, God willing.
Your remark that as recent as less than a month ago, less than half of US States had a comprehensive ban on employment discrimination against trans people ought to be analyzed carefully. But for now I would like to raise the following question as it pertains to anti-discrimination legislation: why is it necessary that each of the potentially endless number of socially discriminated against groups have specific legislation in their name to protect them from discrimination? In my view, the fact that the laws you speak about are relatively quite recent is not evidence that transgenders are a highly discriminated against category of people. On the contrary, it suggests that state legislators have either lost their sense or are feeling the pressure of the political and commercial establishment which manufactured the LGBTQ narrative in the first place. The fact of the matter is the general anti-discrimination laws which have been on the books for quite some time are sufficient and comprehensive in that they strongly protect all segments of society from employment discrimination.
