While I appreciate the argument that the only thing the sides currently share is a tendency toward cruelty, and also that "who started it" conversations are fruitless, I have no better answer than agreed upon detente that is not going to happen.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1387156494752239620 …
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What has happened to the vast majority of trans people is remarkably unfair and largely through no fault of their own. However, they have become a flashpoint because their loudest have aggressively demanded people agree to see five lights when there are four.
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And they have, by extension, become the most visible humans to yell at amongst people who believe certain medical procedures on minors are child abuse.
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And, much like the abortion argument will never be solved because you can't make someone change their definition of when "being a person starts," it's also excessively hard to change a person's opinion of what constitutes "abusing children."
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I don't have a solution for this, so what has been left is to reject the trans ideology in whole cloth, as it appears it is all or nothing; much like where New York pushed the abortion debate in 2019 with full term abortion.
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I am open to solutions that amount to "leave people alone" but neither side seems open to leaving the other side alone as we all struggle over the giant murder cannon in control of the federal government.
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So, yes, the joking map of "Jesusland" and "Sodom" is probably our best path forward. Give everyone a few years to move. Maybe swap houses. And get on with our lives finding new things to be mad at each other about.
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Replying to @upstatefederlst
you might be surprised at the number of trans women in these parts who just hang out and v i b e and also by the number of them who are aggressively right wing
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Replying to @eigenrobot @upstatefederlst
What next? Trans Division of RWDS? Better not forget your helicopter pilot’s preferred pronouns?
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i think the schelling point is roughly like gay integration where everyone who disagrees simply politely ignores their differences and goes about their business without making a Thing of it except for occasional sociopaths
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Replying to @eigenrobot @aephax
That's what it's been like for years. It isn't clear to me it can survive messing with kids.
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