Exactly like that
Like…what?
Like Hitler? How?
Ah he explains.
It’s weird to put your own lie in scare quotes. It’s a grotesque and dangerous lie to say that Kathleen Stock backs the elimination of trans people – and it doesn’t become less of a lie when you put it in scare quotes. She backs no such thing. The word “elimination” of people means extermination, while Stock is talking about concepts and definitions and self-descriptions.
The tweet immediately before that lying one is all about the womany.
You can tell instantly that he’s a woman! Because bent knee! Men’s knees don’t bend! Only women can do that insinuating coaxing little me bend of the knee, therefore Willoughby must be one.
OMG! Allowed to be gender critical in the workplace? What is the world coming to? Next thing you know, we’ll be able to teach that the earth is round.
Also, if his profile picture is of him, I suspect the last December picture has been photoshopped.
Every time I run across a comparison between the view that “trans people are not members of the opposite sex” and an attempt to exterminate the Jews through violence and death, I can’t help hoping that this an admission that trans identities are role-playing fictions, When your avatar “dies” you are no longer Wisdom The Magical Elf, no matter how long you’ve been playing them or how closely you came to identify with them. Yes, YOURE still around, physically, but “you” have been eliminated from Game World. If transwomen don’t get to play their female avatars, all those characters have essentially undergone a form of genocide. Now there’s no way to play the only game they want.
No, I doubt they acknowledge this, and the analogy may just be plain off. Instead, it may be more like the Christian Fundamentalist Template, in which any innocuous failure to affirm the central importance of Christianity in law is interpreted as a step towards the gas chambers.
“City Hall refuses to allow a manger scene on the lawn/ the Woman’s Shelter refuses to allow transwomen in the showers — THEY’RE GOING TO HUNT US ALL DOWN AND KILL US!!1!
Persecution Porn.
Trans identities are fictions that are absolutely intended to be taken as true by others. Rejecting them then is not just a betrayal of that truth, but a betrayal of that person and their intentions. It isn’t just gender that can be treated this way, as people can imagine all sorts of things about themselves that aren’t really true but they can be fictionalized and told to others as if they’re true. Every con artist does this when they tell a mark what they want them to hear and then believe so they can pull of their confidence game.
I don’t think religious believers who try to convert others are doing the same thing. They’re not trying to sell you a fiction, they’re trying to prove to you that their beliefs are supported by certain observations, like look at how intricate life is and how things appear to be designed, so there must be a designer, no? (Well, no, but that’s another story.) If I reject that claim I’m not really rejecting the believer as a person though, but rather their beliefs, and that’s why we can mostly get along in a secular society.
If it’s a sectarian society we’re dealing with though, such heresy would get you punished because said religious beliefs would be enshrined as being true before the law. That’s what the trans activists have been endeavoring to make happen by pushing for things like “misgendering” being punishable under the law as hate speech. Never mind that someone doesn’t believe you’re a woman when you’re intending to be one, they can be cowed into silence and will have to accede to their fictitious claim as fact, which gives the trans-identifying person the validation they want to support their intentional fiction.
This dovetails with the trans-as-the-most-oppressed-people-ever narrative that gets trotted out every time someone is critical of their claims about gender, and also hold that sex is a reality that fundamentally matters to women. If you can’t see how someone with a beard and a penis can be a woman, well, that’s harmful to them because they really, really, really believe they’re women and if you don’t then you’re rejecting them as the person they imagine themselves to be and that’s harmful to their well-being.
Some transgender people are o.k. with others not accepting them as being the opposite sex, and may also accept women’s boundaries as being binding on them. For them at least, their identity doesn’t require validation in the form of a fiction that must be believed. Then there are those who don’t follow gendered stereotypes for their sex and dress as they like, act as they please, and just be themselves. Oh, and not worry what others may think. Seems like a better way to go than pretending to be something you’re not and insisting that everyone else go along.
Who goes outside dressed like that in December?
People living in Texas do.
Ha! Point taken, ikn.
Who goes outside dressed like that in December in the UK?