What are the odds of having two GNC kids? Cough ROGD cough
-
-
Replying to @alexrubner @JesseThorn
Hey I thought the official TERF party line is being GNC is perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of and the problem is parents "pushing" GNC kids into being trans Guess that was a lie
3 replies 11 retweets 175 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @JesseThorn
You're a maths genius, right. What are the odds that a two-podcast family living in California with a book on trans kids to peddle, what are the odds that people like that have TWO (2) gender non-conforming kids?
11 replies 3 retweets 46 likes -
you do know about the law of large numbers, right
1 reply 0 retweets 43 likes -
Moreover, this kind of argument presupposes that if transness is to be tolerated at all we have to imagine it descending upon people's heads like a bolt of lightning by chance And if it seems to occur by anything other than a perfectly random lottery then it's sinister and fake
1 reply 9 retweets 100 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Luarien and
Which is nonsense -- being trans, like literally every other thing a human being can be, has to be the result of some combination of genes and environment Siblings raised in the same household share both The odds of clusters of trans siblings should be pretty good
4 replies 10 retweets 120 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Luarien and
If you think about it at all this kind of objection is absurd nonsense -- what factors about someone's identity actually DO just pop up as ordained by God with no discernible pattern? How could that possibly work? What causal mechanism would it have?
1 reply 1 retweet 25 likes -
Which genes? Be specific.
5 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
I don't have to because I do not, in fact, care
2 replies 1 retweet 34 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @alexrubner and
This discourse shows the weakness of the "born this way" narrative -- it's a purely defensive posture It's telling homophobes or transphobes "Okay but you CAN'T get rid of us, we pop up by pure random chance no matter what you do, picked by the finger of God"
1 reply 3 retweets 34 likes
"So you have no CHOICE but to tolerate us" And that's a fair enough argument as it goes, but it concedes too much As noted, this logically cannot be literally true, God doesn't actually roll a set of fair dice to determine which kids will or won't be trans
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @alexrubner and
And it's conceding that IF there's some causal mechanism that could be identified, it would give phobes moral license to do something about it "Well if there is a gay gene we can just invent a blocker for it" "Well if anime makes you trans, just ban it for the good of society"
1 reply 2 retweets 29 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @alexrubner and
If it was all just fixed at birth the culture wouldn't need to work so hard to try to make everyone cis and straight
0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.