Transgenderism must revert to being a form of private eccentricity. Recognition as one's preferred gender can be privately negotiated but with no coercion by any entity private or public. We all have an absolute right to affirm or not affirm, believe or not believe, that gender identity exists, that no one can infringe.
Sex segregated spaces and activities remain segregated by sex, not "gender identity."
Adults are free to inflict bodily self-harm on themselves in pursuit of an appearance they like but outside of any pretense of a medical protocol -- these are cosmetic procedures that come with no promises to relieve dysphoria or unlock an authentic self and the cost is borne solely by the person seeking them. Any such promises constitute consumer fraud. Children are of course unable to consent to such procedures.
The state has no role in affirming any aspect of cross-gender ideation, avoids proselytizing to children in schools or to anyone else in any interface it has with the public. The person who has inflicted bodily self-harm on his sex traits is no more a distinct class of person to whom special privileges or protections can be conferred than a person who has covered his face in tattoos. The person who believes with all his heart that he is a woman at heart and would die if others don't recognize him as such imposes no duty on any other person to share in that belief or to pretend to share in it. That person must develop resiliency about living in a pluralistic, liberal, democratic society where every person has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.
Any and all deviations from this resolution are morally illegitimate and practically untenable.
The attempt to turn a private eccentricity into a social cause that justified the remaking of society was a ghastly and destructive mistake. It was made inevitable by certain facets of the culture and certain aspects of our politics. We must learn the lesson that experience has now taught us.
@MasterTimBlais Isn’t this part of the issue? The ‘Thank god I didn’t?’ You were completely competent to raise a child, you would have done fine and by today you’d have an adult friend and companion on the path as well as an investment in the future.
@WomanDefiner Bitch, there is no human exploitation in smut novels. There is no questionable consent or oops underage in text. Jfc, what an insane comparison. Masturbation isn’t the issue, it’s the involvement of actual people to orgasm.
@JayMan471@neerajadeshp It wouldn’t cause adultery to skyrocket because most men can’t locate cheating partners or keep them secret at 1/1000th the availability of porn sex. It’s the lack of effort required that makes it ubiquitous Laughable.
@jazz_brah @JustHeatherAnne @MrsCMFrancis Do you think a real partner could or should provide the things depicted in porn? 88% include acts of aggression. Should I offer my husband an anal gang bang? Be serious. Porn sex and real sex are orthogonal.
@tech_felon@sarahcstock@MrsCMFrancis Are you confusing fantasizing about women to using porn? Where is the underclass of people being exploited by your fantasy life?
@SashSoulsmith @turnedwife It’s hilarious that men make this comparison when there is no underclass of people (often underage) being abused and exploited to make romance novels.
@Fly_Curious214 @turnedwife You guys have got to be kidding with this comparison. Where is the questionable consent in fantasy novels? Where are the ‘oops she was underage’ in fantasy novels? Where is the physical abuse? Insane.
@RealDianeYap men don't want to ban prostitution or porn bc they enjoy women being humiliated and degraded, and enjoy hating them too. The ones who want to ban it are Christians and radfems who seem to be the only ones who give a single shit about sex trade survivors.
@Rob_ThaBuilder My ex would militantly police people recognizing him as enby, categorizing them as good or bad people based on their submission to ignoring his obvious maleness. Then he’d go home and jack off to women being brutalized in porn.
@drago9671@MasterTimBlais It’s a progressive sin worthy of excommunication. He can’t even simply present the facts without laying down cover fire against charges of transphobia.