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  • Hildegard (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    54·
    2 days ago

    First statement is better. If you support universal trans medicine, unrestricted HRT for all ages, fully accept trans people’s gender, and oppose any and all transphobic laws, I’ll make you a laminated t-slur pass myself.

    I hope the second person goes for a long walk down a short pier.

  • jbunnie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    70·
    2 days ago

    I swear the second one is worse than being blatantly transphobic. No, you don’t accept me, and no, it’s not just a difference in opinion.

    • dreamy (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      49·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I find the first one much better than the second one as well. “What about the cis kids who will become trans??” is really much worse than using slurs, as the idea that gender identity/sexual orientation can be changed by external factors is pretty much the basis of conversion therapy.

      And people advocating for more regulation often don’t support actual medical consensus like the WPATH SoC. They usually support some shit like “No GAC under 25, and I don’t care if that’ll make children kill themselves.”.

      I’d much rather get called a removed or some other childish slur rather than have some jackass put up a respectful facade while fighting to take away medical care from me.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    2 days ago

    The first statement, worded exactly as it is, could be really helpful in certain spaces. Those words open doors into closed minds, into which the message of acceptance and support can slide. A MAGA who hears them could feel they could start being decent to their trans child or nibling without losing their whole identity. Which isn’t much, to the whole world. But it could be the whole world to that kid.

  • Omega@piefed.blahaj.zone
    English
    30·
    2 days ago

    To me, it’s simple. The first person, I can explain to them why saying “removed” and “fag” is bad and hurts the shit out of me, and have a good conversation with them and feel confident that by the end of it, they will have learned something, be a lot more careful around those words and even perhaps, not use them at all.

    Whereas, the other person, sure they don’t call me slurs, but if they were to phrase things differently and actually do call me a “removed” and a “fag”, I know for a fact that trying to talk to them about why that is terrible would be a fucking waste of my time that would only end up with them explaining to me in the most backhanded way why they are justified in calling me such.

    I’ll take poorly worded but earnest support over the thinly veiled disdain of polite society people any day.

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    15·
    2 days ago

    This reminds me of the antique meme template that was like “almost progressive redneck”. It’d have text expressing progressive ideas in dicey ways.

  • KernelTale@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    My stance on HRT is that there should be a very small frictiction. If I were in politics I would go with no friction in order to join together against heavy friction, but I think having informed consent clinics with or 1 or 2 sessions before starting or easily accessible grey market is ideal. Everywhere else 0 friction.