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Had the governor already studied this, and consulted with her team of experts in time to reach a reassuring prosecutorial conclusion?
Or was it merely a hot-headed exclamation?
Hoorah.
How the stare decisis consequences of this victory will affect school lunches & trans kids I wouldn't care to guess. But I wish our children well. No child in the United States should be allowed to go hungry, even if it means one less ICBM in our arsenal.
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Absolutely.
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I haven't fully made sense of it but I have vague amorphous ill-at-ease here.
It seems the sensible message is "equality".
Yet here and many elsewheres the message is communicated not demonstrating unity, but instead demonstrating division, differentiation, segmentation. "Trans" a relatively small minority.
CERTAINLY we should not merely pay lip-service to equality, but demonstrate it as individuals, and throughout our culture.
But the principle of the rainbow coalition is unity, one single spectrum, a diversity of equals, rather than a smattering of discrete special interests.
That is NOT a criticism of equality.
Instead it's a vague apprehension preferring reformulating the style of the message to more accurately reflect cohesion, unity instead of division. More easily said than done.
Thank you Dr. Barry.
I generally use Ivory.
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Caz Coronel
treSsnpoodg823 5h u0i4h4aa173i38P12i31l04y M 21mf2tM18m:9f65 ·TRANS (or just female?) AGGRESSION POST
This photo of me was taken a few days ago. This is what I look like, not that it matters, but to set the scene…
I was at the Festival Hall. Toilets on either side of two lifts - men’s on one side, women’s on the other. I was in the queue for the women’s. Men were queueing across from me.
I was facing into the bathroom, so from behind, you couldn’t see my face. I was just standing there, minding my business, when I heard someone shout,
“The men’s toilets are over here!”
I ignored it at first thinking someone was letting their mate know. But he kept shouting it "The men's toilet are this side!". Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, (meaning he came into the corridor of the women's toilets), he poked me and said
“Do you realise this is the women’s toilet?!”
Up to that point, he hadn’t seen my face. So what was he judging me on? My haircut? My hoodie?
Also, I was surrounded by women. It was pretty obvious I knew which toilet it was.
His energy was aggressive. I was shocked. I looked him straight in the face and asked: “What sex do you think I am?” Affronted he said: “I don’t know!”
Here’s where I wish I’d said, “If you don’t know, then shut the f**k up!”
But instead, I said: “Would you like to see my tits?”
I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: “No no no, don’t do that!”
His wife came out of the loo and saw what was going down and said with urgency, “Let’s go now!.”
She rushed him away before all the ladies around me could properly react. They were horrified by what they saw. One lovely lady said to me, "I can’t believe what I just saw!"
Another one said, “I am so, so sorry you had to experience that. I held back from speaking up till it was too late because when he came and touched you, I thought he must have known you.” Another woman said, "You are welcome here!" and yet another said, "You must report him and get him kicked out!" I stood there, shocked, and unfortunately didn’t react quickly enough.
What’s interesting is that he wasn’t a staff member. He was just a random member of the public.
Also, my attire was more on the masculine side. So if he thought I was a trans woman, why would I be dressing like a man? If he thought I was a trans man, then under the new rules, I was in the right toilet!
His policing was based on my hair? My clothes? Maybe I had cancer? Or maybe I just like my hair that way. What makes him think any of that gives him the right to behave like that?!
It is fair to say also that I could have been a butch trans women but that is the whole point, you can't judge from a hair cut several meters away and its not anyone's place to.
For the record, I’m not offended by being thought to be a man. I have a strong male energy, (female too sometimes!). However I often feel if I could press a button and turn into a man I might, I don’t feel like I’ve earned the right to call myself trans, given the immense things people go through to be right in their body… but in spirit perhaps I am. Asides this I am a 100% biological born unchanged female.
What was offensive was his assumption that this kind of behaviour is OK.
This is what these new laws and rules are doing — they’re not making it safer for everyone. They’re fuelling public entitlement and policing of gender expression.
Afterwards, I tried to find them. I thought maybe it would help to have a conversation. To understand. Did he think he was protecting his wife? What made him do that?
I’ve been meaning to speak out on this issue for a while. But I’ve had a lot going on, it’s been a difficult time and I haven’t felt I had the head space.
In a strange way, I’m grateful for this moment. It gave me the push I needed to finally say something.
I genuinely believe there’s misunderstanding from a few of the much older cis community about what it means to be trans. I mean this compassionately, It is just something they do not understand and it frightens them. I wish I’d got to talk to that guy… open conversations are needed to understand what fears are fuelling their prejudice. More on that in another post.
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The following has been posted before:
Dandy Lynn.
And how many admonishments in the Bible for trans women? Zero? Does that mean divine perfection? How can we do better than zero?
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Regarding bigotry in general:
how many Whites that discriminate against Blacks have Black friends? Know a Black person?
How many straights hostile to trans have a trans friend?
Fear of the unknown is quite basic. There's another name for it. "Ignorance".
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Voters Reject Republican Who Embraced Anti-Trans Attacks In Nebraska Mayoral Race
Instead, they elected a Democrat and the city's first Black mayor.
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Kelli Anne Busey
epsnrodtSoa81c24m225i301g02fchg6f5t1tm21cta38hgc2fi9l8ffi69m ·The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) joined five other medical organizations representing 600,000 physicians and medical students to say they are "deeply alarmed" by the report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on medical care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals."
And the report
AAP Speaks Out Against The HHS Report on Transgender Care
The AAP joined five other medical organizations representing 600,000 physicians and medical students condemning the HHS Document.
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This is what's known as a cringeworthy moment
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Fine, but anecdotal.
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The point is, they haven't thought it thru. If they want transwomen to use the men's room the flip side of that is that transmen should use the ladies.
Precisely corroborating my own assessment.
I might be more dismissive of the issue in toto, if not for the risk to vulnerable children.
That's not a solution to the problem, merely an elevation of its importance. We are obliged as a culture to safeguard our children.
btw:
Worth noting, we would sidestep, eliminate this as an issue in our culture by simply switching to unisex public toilets.
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