This thread will be a living document for articles I find helpful in understanding the gender debate.
It's mostly for my own reference, but feel free to go through it if you are new to the topic.
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@kvshlvk@aimeebalthazar@ThatchEffendi I have voiced in layman's terms previously about how "Woke" has all the manifestations of Fascism in practice - I don't like to use the term "Horseshoe Theory" because I think there are some ideological differences to parse; I think I like your framing better.
The T has appropriated so much of lesbian and gay life and culture. Pride. LGB History Month. ‘Coming out’. ‘Born this way’. Stonewall, the protest. Stonewall, the organisation. The rainbow. Our venues. They’ve all been appropriated by the T.
But more worrying than any of that is the appropriation of the concept of ‘conversion therapy’.
It is outrageous to equate telling a person that they are they sex that they are (a perfectly healthy thing to say to a person, to try to avoid them losing themselves down a rabbit hole) with the electric shock or chemical aversion therapy sometimes used on same-sex attracted people in the 1950s-1980s.
I know someone who experienced genuine conversion therapy when he was a young man and it was a disgusting, and very harmful, practice.
Gender identity is not the same as sexual orientation.
And the medical, and often lifelong, consequences of someone convincing themselves they are the sex they are not, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, are so much more serious than someone being same-sex attracted.
Calling a failure to affirm someone’s gender identity ‘conversion therapy’ is yet another appropriation of a concept from the lesbian and gay world. And, for me, this is the most concerning and harmful appropriation of them all.
@KnownHeretic I agree gender identity is a made up concept. in my native language there's no distinction between the words for sex and gender.
but once a person is introduced to the idea of gender identity through language, it becomes possible to have body dysmorphia because of it.
@janeclarejones@glosswitch Growing up when the feminist bottom that objectification of women is bad - that it is now the Left that is the wiser offenders of objectification of women is perhaps the weirdest thing to realize.
You are seeing it differently because you are a man who fetishes the degradation of women and we are women who find your eroticisation of our dehumanisation fucking offensive.
Kristi here wants to lecture you on how women aren't just harmless victims - they can also be harmful victims or harmless oppressors! Women come in all types! 🤡
#LGBwithoutTQ
The common one-dimensional portrayal of women as harmless victims reinforces outdated gender stereotypes. This keeps us from seeing women as complex human beings, able to wield power, even in misguided or violent ways.
And, the assumption that men are always perpetrators and never victims reinforces unhealthy ideas about men and their supposed invincibility.
The Sexual Victimization by Women Against other Women Is More Common Than Previously Known A USA corrections study gives a portrait of female perpetrators.
The USA study found that, contrary to assumptions, the biggest threat to women serving time does not come from male corrections staff.
Female victims are more than three times as likely to experience sexual abuse by other women inmates than by male staff.
Also, the USA study found women inmates are more likely to be abused by other female inmates than are male inmates in male prisons, disrupting the long held view that sexual violence in prison is mainly about men assaulting men.
In juvenile correctional centres, female staff are also a much more significant threat than male staff; more than nine in ten juveniles who reported staff sexual victimisation were abused by a woman
Any female inmate that is a threat to other female inmates, whether they are trans or c_sgender should never be housed in a male prison.
I have managed 5 Prisons and they are actually 1000 times easier to manage risk than it is in the greater community. Every prison has protection, strict protection, & one out segregation units, they have cameras, walls, bars, duress alarms.
Narratives such as @jk_rowling around issues such as trans people in prisons, takes a valid issue – the safety of inmates while incarcerated against abuse & sexual assault & target transindividuals (almost always trans women) & the ‘radical trans lobby’ as the perpetrators &
enablers of this violence. In reality, prison administrators are responsible for the safety of prisoners, and trans activists do not have the level of ‘disproportionate power’ and ‘little accountability’ that @jk_rowling ascribes to them.
It is true that a significant issue in the prison space is the presence of violent offenders who may assault other inmates. Narratives which cast (sis) female prisoners only as potential victims & male prisoners (incorrectly including trans women) as potential perpetrators simplify the dynamics of interpersonal violence to the detriment of all: this narrative ignores (or even tacitly condones) interpersonal violence within male prison spaces, where trans women are disproportionately at risk; it overlooks sexual violence
in women’s prisons between sis-women prisoners; & it fails to hold the prison system accountable for building systems & environments which prioritise the safety of prisoners.
Instead, trans women who have committed violent sexual offences are positioned by @jk_rowling as not only a threat based on their own actions, but as an innate threat from their entire group, and used as justification to deny all trans people the validity of their genders.
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Insufferable Woke White dipshits use gays, lesbians, and bisexuals as cannon fodder for their narcissistic victimhood fantasy and to prop up their deeply misogynistic & homophobia cult beliefs.
#LGBwithoutTQ
Gender criticals & TERFs use gays, lesbians and bisexuals as cannon fodder for their hateful and bigoted views towards trans people, and attack women and homosexuals who don't agree with their narrow worldviews. Gender criticals are a vile misogynistic and homophobic cult.
@Gaynotqueer1 Europe should be readying itself for potential war with Russia.
I think that money can go toward some interceptor missiles. At least those things are actually useful, unlike "Queer" people.