The most important question you can ask yourself, as a person who is just learning about trans issues and hearing a lot of conflicting messages, is "How does this work when trans people aren't involved?"
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A starter example: bathrooms. How do public bathrooms work when trans people aren't involved? People know which bathroom they should use and do so without bothering other strangers they cross paths with in thr restroom. Crime is rare, if one occurs they call the police.
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Trans people do not want anything about how bathrooms normally operate without trabs people involved to change.
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A more advanced example would be medication prescribed to children. How does prescribing medication to children work when gender dysphoria isn't involved? Clinical trials in children are rare. Most medications are prescribed based on adult data and some medical best guesses.
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Trans people believe that trans medical care should not be held to different standards of proof or safety than other medical care.
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For just about every issue the anti-trans activists bring up they rely on using scary sounding language to describe how things normally work for everyone, assuming most people won't realize they're describing normal social functioning in scary terms.
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Often transphobes describe the threat using hyperbolic phrases like "the erasure of women." How would this work? Step one: Roughly 1 percent of people are allowed to socially and legally change their sex Step two: ??? Step three: Women have been erased
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Other examples: Birth certificates have never been a factual record of what happened at a birth. Legal name changes happen routinely for all sorts of reasons. People often go by names other than their legal names. Language routinely evolves, including pronoun usage.
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