Not that it really matters as a legitimate cause to dislike trans people, but the 2023 Nashville shooting at a school was done by a trans person.
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I only know of one, and she's an expert at everything related to fiber channel and tape drives. So I guess it might be that US conservatives are ideologically opposed to cheap long term offline storage.
This is America, we store things in the iCloud or the garage.
Gender and separation of humans based on those lines have been a thing for longer than humans even called themselves "humans", and transpeople threaten that. So it triggers a flight or fight reflex in people who aren't used to the concept.
I find when people know me for awhile and THEN find out I'm trans, their reaction is less "I'm scared", and more "That's neat", but if people find out I'm trans before they get to know me, they will be hostile the whole time.
First, I'd challenge the 'most people' part. In my experience most people really, truly do not care one way or the other if someone is trans. But to be fair, this may vary between countries, societies, etc.
Edit: I wrote a bunch of other stuff here, but wasn't happy reading it back. Someone else here said religion and bad science, which is close enough to the point I was trying to make that I'll just say that.
I live in texas and transphobia is prevalent enough that misgendering is the norm once people hear my voice. I get looks of disgust often enough that I'm used to it, so yeah it varies from place to place and some people don't know how bad it is because they dont experience it.
Ugh - that's fucking gross of people, and I'm sorry to hear that.
My argument was more when considering 'most people' - most people is a lot of people. An individual doesn't really interact with most people. But that said, you can certainly interact with 'enough people' that an expectation of shoddy treatment is pretty reasonable (if a pretty bullshit set of circumstances individuals shouldn't have to suffer).
Pedantry on my part, I guess, along with likely blindspots I have as a cis male. Fuck transphobia...such meaninglessly hurtful bullshit.
Ok, am conservative.
I'm going to give my thoughts.
So I'm fine with most things between consenting adults. The problem is when there isn't consent and in a larger group, a lack of consensus.
Kids can't consent, and despite claims to the contrary, there's been a couple of trans kids. The issue I see is the amount of push back on passing laws against trans kids. Why on earth do y'all care so much about banning something that isnt happening?
I'm not into sports, but I can see how unfair it is when a bio man fights a bio woman. Even if they're taking mtf hormones, there's still a ton of testorone. Just from a safety aspect, they shouldn't allow bio men in women's boxing or MMA or anything like that. Chess and stuff of that nature doesn't really care about the sex that much. And there's been more a couple of sports women who are against it too. There's a lack of consensus.
As an aside, we were making a ton of progress against gender roles, and now here we are reinforcing them. Can't even wear drag now without being called trans. It's annoying.
Why are you guys so obsessed with labels? Let dudes wear dresses and women wear whatever. You don't need a label for it.
When we're talking about trans kids, it's about puberty blockers. Why force children to go through puberty that they didn't consent to? Puberty has permanent effects.
You seem misinformed about trans people in sports, but I think the other comment covered it. Also consider that it's just a small minority of people, most of which are not even doing that well in their sport and just want to participate like anyone else.
And as far as labels go, that's because of the culture war.
Can't even wear drag now without being called trans.
The left certainly isn't saying this. That attitude comes from ignorance and not knowing the difference. If you had interacted with the trans community, you would know that we're not putting people in boxes or reinforcing gender roles. Especially when you consider nonbinary people.
Labels are actually important. "cross dressing" and being trans are two completely different things. One is personal expression, while the other is identity. A trans man could wear a dress, for example, and it wouldn't make him less of a man.
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In my experience and speaking with transphobes I think it’s caused by our current culture of trying to force people to accept them.
Most people in my experience are happy not knowing or ignoring signs that someone is trans or gay. However when you start bringing it up in casual conversation or being overtly flamboyant for lack of a better term people start giving push back on it. I would compare it to the vegan stereotype. No one cares you’re vegan but when you constantly bring it up or try to make every conversation about you being vegan people get annoyed.
We as a society need to accept that racists and transphobes won’t change. You can’t force them to accept anything.
It's who their owners say to hate, so they hate them. Could be anyone and for no or any reason. They're cultists and they do, say, hate, and fear who they're told to.
Because they tell teenagers that you might accidentally kiss a man and let hormones and immaturity handle the rest.
What?
At this point I'm assuming that loads of them either want to be trans, want to have sex with a trans person, but they feel they can't do either because they were told it's evil
It's the same as the gay hating, any guy very visibly hating gays always ends up snorting cocaine from a gay escort dick.