Bro can’t understand
Then try harder.
"I can't understand why we don't just get on and allow a very small number of people undergoing gender reassignment to live their lives in a happy, comfortable way."
SNP Campaign Manager Stewart Hosie is asked about the differing views in his own party on gender. #BBCR4Today
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) June 26, 2024
Small numbers can affect large numbers.
I despise the “just leave those little people over there alone” argument. It says that people with gender dysphoria are a tiny insignificant minority who aren’t worth examining further, which is not a model of tolerance, it’s a model of profound ignorance. It says, “I don’t care if the surgeries work or not, I just want to put those people out of my mind as much as possible. So I’ll just assume the surgeries are hunky-dory, because it’s the easiest way for me to get out of having to think about or care about those unusual genderbender people.”
“I don’t care if many of the people in the trans movement might be victims, caught up in a cult, being exploited, some of whom were targeted since early childhood, many of whom will end up severely disabled, quite a few of whom will commit suicide. It’s too incomprehensible for me to care. It’s a small number of people way off somewhere else, far from me and mine, so why do people make such a fuss?”
And with this guy, it’s worse than “I don’t care.” It’s “I can’t understand.” He can’t even fathom what unsavoury business might be going on under the shroud he’s thrown over “transgender.”
Well, of course every single crook, charlatan, and predator is going to adopt the label “transgender” if everyone else is making a big show out of how incomprehensible, mysterious, and magical the trans people are. Isn’t that what every messed up person always wanted? An invincibility shield, or an invisibility cloak?
I think all those comic book movies the culture is marinating in have gotten to everyone’s heads. They’re treating “transgender” like a superhero costume. As if trans-identifying people are special superhumans, the fucking X-Men.
And of course, super villains are taking note and dressing the part.
Well, to most people, even those who aren’t creationists, evolution runs on FM: Fuckin’ Magic. Is it any wonder that they would be receptive to the idea that transgender people are like metahumans? And just like with mutants, acceptance without question is the only morally acceptable stance. To worry about potential harms is to support the Mutant Registration Act and the creation of the Sentinel Program. It’s sanctioning the systematic oppression and potentially even genocide of innocent mutant kids.
Artymorty: The Yes Minister episode The Greasy Pole presented one specific tactic for discrediting a report aimed at reassuring “those people who have not read the report and don’t want to disturb the status quo: in other words, almost everyone”. It appears to be in deployment against The Cass Report.
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