I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not trolling. Here, I've found an article for you to read and understand.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not trolling. Here, I've found an article for you to read and understand.
‘Our lives are under attack’: one in two trans Australians have experienced hate, report reveals
Data from the Trans Justice Project and the Victorian Pride Lobby also shows anti-trans hatred has increased over the last three yearswww.theguardian.com
Good thinking! And using similar logic, why should we refrain from being racist to non-white people, since most Australians are white? While we're at it, why should left-handed people be accepted by the majority? Their perversion should be kept far away from me and my children!
Oh gosh I just really need to harass and oppress someone who's different. It's a real human need!
You'll be cool with this bloke walking into the women's toilets then? Since he doesn't have a penis, and all.
Society also shot Aboriginal people for sport, sent children up chimneys, considered rape to be legal within marriage and used electro-shock therapy to "cure" people of the sin of homosexuality. A lot of people managed to cope through that too, but they generally weren't the ones on the receiving end of such discrimination.
There is a distinct definition.
www.yalemedicine.org
Yes.
Trans men do. Why are you leaving them out of this conversation?
Maybe you could google it if you're curious. I've met enough cis women to know that many of them do accept trans women as women and have no issues using the same toilet or change room as them.
That's pretty condescending. What if someone thinks that and has got out plenty? What if as part of that getting out, they talked to many trans people, to understand why they're willing to look and act the way they do despite having to brave the disapproval and even belligerence of many people? What if they also talked to people who disapproved of trans people, asked them why they hold the attitude they do, and didn't receive a compelling answer?
Religious and political leaders worked out a very long time ago that people can be persuaded to fear or dislike others who are not like them and concepts they are unfamiliar with. Once that's happened, they can be easily persuaded to give their faith, votes and/or money to whichever leaders claim they can protect them from this supposed threat. Trans people, and other gender non-conforming people like drag queens, are simply the latest bogeyman to be used to scare the public, after Asians, Muslims and gay people stopped being feared by large swathes of the nation.
I agree. The silver lining is, there may be a serious risk of future blowback for any institution that goes after trans people, if they intend to be around for more than a decade. They will always be the subject of disgust for those who are currently young and sympathetic to trans people, and people have long memories.
It's easy to think homophobia is going away but it isn't and it's not just older people
equalityaustralia.org.au
Just to add to the wonderful response by Johnny Bananas, how do you think a trans woman (with a penis) would be treated if she went into the men’s toilets at a pub or club and started fixing her hair and make-up? Blokes might not realise this is as an important a function of a ladies room at a venue as relieving oneself (often to the irritation of someone like myself who has little interest in fixing hair and makeup and just wants to get to a sink so I can wash my hands - but I accept others are different).
Most if not all pubs are required to have a third bathroom available which suits a majority of transgender's needs. Non-binary and transgender have mental health issues at alarmingly disproportionate rates ranging from anxiety to outright suicidal tendencies. 93% of people LGBTQ+ people surveyed by Life of Mind that didn't fit into the LGB categories reported to having a mental disorder. 73.6% reported to having self-harmed in their lifetimes. The current sway towards recognising transgenderism is enabling behaviour and allowing sick but treatable people to wallow further in their afflictions. Recognising it as a mental illness is the first step towards treading the affected.
Are you suggesting that gender dysphoria is a mental illness in itself? The way homosexuality used to be categorised as a mental disorder?
I didn't argue they were the same thing. I was using these things called hyperbole and satire to demonstrate that catering to the majority in a way that makes minorities suffer is not a good thing. Understand?
How can people tell whether someone went to the right side of the segregation or not? Is it based on outwards looks? Or what genitalia they have?
I posted an article in response to adogsfan5 about the violence trans people face. Did you read it? If not, I suggest doing so and then re-evaluating how they're treated by large parts of society.
No, people are conflating gender and sex. Gender isn't biology, it's a social construct of expected behaviours, attitudes and appearances that was assigned to people at their birth. Why shouldn't that be able to be changed if people don't feel comfortable with the one they were assigned?
What do you mean by "elevate"?
Why is it silly? If they're there to treat women and they refuse to treat a woman, how is it not discrimination? I find it hard to believe that every doctor and nurse in the building specialises in obstetrics only, and even then they are all trained in basic medical knowledge.
Might wanna ——- you know, read this thread.
This is pseudointellectual horseshit that is given way too much air time. Men's toilets have urinals. Women's clothing shops sell bras. Male bathrooms don't have tampons in them. After primary school age boys and girls don't play sport against each other. This has nothing to do with gender and people need to stop pretending it does. If you want to wear a dress wear a dress. If you aren't happy that the dresses on offer are designed for women take it up with dress makers.
I mean you do you, be whatever version of yourself you want to be - but that has nothing to do with me or anyone else. Everyone has their own identity and that's great. If you want to call yourself non-binary and choose your own pronouns then do it, but remember it is more important to you than it is to others. Identity is personal. That is how a free society is supposed to work. I am not stopping you from making up words or taking hormones or having reassignment surgeries or anything like that. But if one day you decide that you are non-binary and are going to be outraged every time someone doesn't instinctively just not use language conventions that everyone has been fine with for hundreds of years I don't have to validate it. It isn't mean spirited or discriminatory. There are 8 billion people and therefore 8 billion identities. Most people can't even remember where they left their keys.
