• whenigrowup356@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As I said, the pronoun conversation isn’t really about pronouns. It’s about tribalism and scapegoating.

    How much time did you spend thinking about pronouns or trans people before gay and lesbian relationships began to be normalized and legalized in The West?

    Trans people have a new target on their backs because most people don’t know someone who is trans and thus don’t understand them. They’re a scapegoat for right-wing groups to organize and fight against because they lost the ability to be quite so open with their homophobia.

    Trans people are, according to some studies, as high as 4 times as likely to be victims of sexual assault and 3.5 times as likely to commit suicide.

    Again, this is serious. Trans lives matter, Period.

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      1 year ago

      PREACH! trans people are being killed for existing. and this priviledged person is all like “dOn’T yOu hAvE rEaL pRoBlEmS?!”

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        1 year ago

        Thanks. Some people really don’t get it so I try to communicate in good faith on this issue but damn does it feel like banging your head into a brick wall sometimes.