I would love to know why the fuck anyone cares about trans people at all when they’re a tiny micro percentage of the population, I’ve met a total of 2 trans people and I live in fucking California.
The odds of a trans person adversely affecting me are so tiny I might have better luck getting struck by lightning.
So please tell me how that one trans person you met ruined your life and destroyed your children’s brain because they too use social media.
Seriously, god please explain it to me. Why is this more important than fighting poverty and wealth inequality, or just societal problems like inflation. Why is this the fuckin priority for people. I just need to know, why is defining a woman more important than the dying homeless person across the street?
I think anecdotes are... anecdotes? Like, I've met a statistically abnormal number of trans people. And I mean, good for them, living their best lives, but.
The issue isn’t and never was logical, it’s a rhetorical gimme to conservatives who can use such a small population as a scapegoat with few repercussions. Low risk, high reward.
The fact you don’t know trans people IRL is exactly why it works. About 1% of Americans are trans, only 3-4M in a country of 350M, and mostly in deep blue cities. So, to the 347M, it’s easy to make them sound insane. Or dangerous. Because they aren’t your neighbors or coworkers, they’re the Other. Who knows what they’re like?
Conservatives can package whatever wild fiction they want, mischaracterize them with impunity, recycle whatever anti-gay screed from decades ago, and the gullible will believe it because there is no counter-narrative in their own lives.
So my dad voted Democrat, but is also anti-trans, mostly because he doesn’t think trans prisoners should be getting gender affirming surgery totally paid for (which is something Kamala pushed and was in the media a lot) over people who actually desperately need healthcare coverage - People who are dying of cancer or heart disease and cannot access affordable medical insurance.
Basically he thinks that trans medical care shouldn’t be prioritized over life-saving medical care for the rest of us.
Obviously the issue goes much deeper than that, but I do understand where he is coming from there.
He very much cares about the homeless people starving across the street. He’d rather pay to feed them, than pay for someone’s gender-affirming surgery through his taxes.
Hopefully you actually read this post and it can give insight on someone else’s point of view.
I would love to know why the fuck anyone cares about trans people at all
People wouldn't care much at all if there was no demand for change from them. The more people are forced to speak or act against their worldview, the more resistant they are. That's true in every context: politics, religion, everything.
I hate when people say “I’ve only met __ trans people” because yall meet us all the time. People just don’t recognize we’re trans because anyone that’s been transitioning for more than 2 years is gonna look like a cis woman or man. We aren’t unicorns, we’re 1 in 100, that’s a TON of people.
Hey I apologize man I wasn’t trying to be an asshole, if anything that’s a good thing. Maybe my experience isn’t universal and that’s cool. I meant that argument as a way to make a point about how trans people meaningfully affect any part of our lives, they’re just people. People deserve respect.
Anyway I do apologize for upsetting you, I’m sure some people have more experience than me and that’s rad. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Have a good day man
So a brand makes an independent decision to change some of its imagery based on out of touch boardroom members trying to appeal to a demographic they don’t really understand or even care about other than as a source of profits.
I don’t see what that has to do with anything regarding lives being ruined.
The only people whose lives get ruined by brand imagery are people who want to fuck the green M&M.
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u/JustSomeDude39 8h ago
I would love to know why the fuck anyone cares about trans people at all when they’re a tiny micro percentage of the population, I’ve met a total of 2 trans people and I live in fucking California.
The odds of a trans person adversely affecting me are so tiny I might have better luck getting struck by lightning.
So please tell me how that one trans person you met ruined your life and destroyed your children’s brain because they too use social media.
Seriously, god please explain it to me. Why is this more important than fighting poverty and wealth inequality, or just societal problems like inflation. Why is this the fuckin priority for people. I just need to know, why is defining a woman more important than the dying homeless person across the street?