If the trans movement was about, like, making sure gender non-conforming people aren’t fired or evicted, don’t face violence on the streets, & have help out of poverty, prostitution, & addiction, I wouldn’t think twice about supporting it. But mostly it’s not about that. 1/8
It’s more about promoting a postmodern, idealist, individualist ideology that denies the reality of biological sex. It’s a vehicle for Big Pharma to create life-long medical patients and for scuzzy fetishists to get society to play along with their kinks. By denying 2/8
biological sex, it invalidates homosexuality (& indeed heterosexuality), replacing it with attraction based on pronouns & the internal, subjective feelings of others. Anything else is “transphobic.” It de-materializes women too, reducing them to just a feeling or stereotypes. 3/8
Women’s sports may be the most visible example of this, but it affects all spaces for women, like crisis shelters and prisons.
All of this is pushing people away from trans activists. We are tired of the hyperbole and reality-denying nonsense. Many of us came to 4/8
support the trans movement to begin with because we genuinely don’t want trans people to face violence/hardships. But the movement is hardly about that anymore. It’s Big Business now with all the corporations & non-profits buying in. And it’s not something I can support. 5/8
Its denial of material reality, pushing subjective idealism, invalidating homosexuality, abolishing women’s spaces, pushing drugs & surgeries (especially egregious when pushed on minors) to fatten the pockets of pharmaceutical companies, unilaterally revising language, 6/8
including languages that are inherently gendered like Spanish, all pushes people away and makes this movement hard to support. If it wants to soften the inevitable backlash it’s attracting, it needs to drop the reality-denying, the compelled speech, the hostility towards 7/8
women and gay people, and focus on the things materially impacting gender non-conforming people, like poverty, evictions, unemployment, homelessness, mental illness and addictions. 8/8
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