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Dress for the job (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just read their wiki page and it is absolutely filled to the brim with crazy wacky shit.

The Collinses do not support transgender health care for youth, but express acceptance for people whom Simone described as "legit trans" as opposed to those who fall into the "trans cult." Simone opposes allowing transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity and to play on sports teams matching their gender identity.

As a trans woman, this stood out to me. I'm not surprised that they are transphobic, but why make the point about "legit trans" and "trans cult?" I assume they consider "legit trans" to be the tiny percentage of transgender people who are right-wing nuts and the "trans cult" are those who aren't. Basically they're just saying "We only support transgender people who want their faces eaten" which is a strange way of phrasing it since usually transphobes tell all of us to go fuck ourselves, including the dumb ones that support the leopards.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's probably more like they can't deny the reality of trans people, but they think that it's a very tiny minority and the rest are just cultists.

You see this same fallacy with autism. Why are there "suddenly" more autistic kids? It isn't because vaccines are giving them autism or something like that. It's because doctors know what to look for to diagnose now.

People fall into this same trap with trans people, because 20 years ago it was extremely rare to meet an out trans person. So, now it looks like they're suddenly everywhere! What could be the cause? A trans cult recruiting people?!

No, it's a cultural shift. Damn, people can be stupid sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

That's a really good point. It's not an evident thing from my perspective because being transgender is so normal to me that I don't know if I would have ever even thought about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Look up trans medicalist they kind of seem to fit in there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They're probably supporters of Blanchardian typology. Now as for why so many people go to bat for a sexologist who doesn't believe in bisexuality I'll never understand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I know about transmeds, and considering that they think medical transitioning is required, I think it would be weird for a transmed to be against blockers and hrt for kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's why I said kind of.