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Huh. It turns out the people really harmed by climate change are trans sex workers. I did not know that. The Independent informs us:
Joya Patiha, a 43-year-old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing weather patterns in the mountain-ringed city of Bandung were affecting her income as a sex worker a decade ago.
Her income as a sex worker? He had a fixed income “as a sex worker”? I think what the reporter probably meant is that Patiha can’t get as many paying customers as he could a decade ago. So no one told him that men think women are old hags at age 25? He thinks it’s the weather that’s the problem? And the reporter takes him seriously?
The rainy season was lasting longer across the West Java province, winds were stronger and in some particularly bad years Patiha lost up to 80% of her earnings.
What “her earnings”? What lost? He earned less than he had before because it was rainy; he didn’t “lose” some percentage of a fixed salary.
Trans women like Patiha are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change, as well as suffering disproportionately when disasters strike.
How? Why? Who says?
“No one is coming out during the longer rainy season,” said Patiha. “It is very hard to make money during that unpredictable weather.”
Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and trans women, who tend to face more stigma and marginalisation than trans men or other LGBTQ+ Indonesians, are also among those hardest hit by extreme weather.
Are they? Or is this dim-witted reporter just claiming they are because it’s The Done Thing?
Finally we do get something of an explanation:
The Indonesian government has a five-year plan setting out its development objectives and how it will manage the impacts of climate change and although this includes provisions for vulnerable groups, trans people are not listed among them.
“Women, the elderly, and people with disabilities are mentioned, but there is no provision for sexual and gender minorities,” Darmawan said. The lack of government recognition of their precarity means trans people have few social safety nets, he added.
That is at least specific as opposed to vague hand-wavey. On the other hand it’s not clear why “sexual and gender minorities” particularly need “provision” more than the population at large. Women, the elderly, and people with disabilities are not as strong as young able-bodied males, so it makes sense to provide for them but not necessarily for young able-bodied male trans people.
Whatever. Climate change is going to drag everyone down, so it’s a little pointless to try to score trans ally points by pretending it’s worse for our trans siblings.
More of the typical woke inversion of consequentialism. For them it’s not the greatest good for the greatest number that matters. Rather, it’s the greatest good for (or more accurately subservience to) the most marginalized; i.e., smallest number. They even redefine need according to metrics of minoritization, which isn’t even a word, so their formulation doesn’t even align with maximal mitigation of suffering.
Making sense of their view under consequentialism requires valuing groups differently. Only by viewing women as less valuable, less important than men of gender can one justify prioritizing a Lia Thomas over Riley Gaines and the entirety of the female swimming world.
Putting the situation in terms of impersonal ethical calculus makes the ideology’s insanity and incompatibility with ethical intuition obvious. Maybe that’s why they’re so opposed to “intellectualizing” the subject and engaging in “abstract” philosophical debate.
Just a thought.
Plus, these are gay men living in a Muslim country where homosexuality is taboo. Before trans drove the media to insanity, it would have merited mentioning that these are gay men trapped in prostitution because of societal homophobia. Now that it’s all lumped into “LGBTQ+ rights” no one feels a responsibility to report that anymore. Now the homophobia-to-trans-prostitute pipeline is treated as merely an “in-house” matter for the rainbow people to sort out for themselves, in private.
So if TWAW what’s the problem?
Arty:
I’m not sure normies have ever understood the homophobia-to-trans relation, though.
Is Patiha worse hit than other ageing prostitutes? I suspect they all suffer similarly.
Soooo…. trans people need to just be given money or something?
No interrogation of the claims, no evidence of anything, no solution, only ‘save the transes’.
Perhaps TiMs are more absorbent, or prone to melting than mere mortals in the face of climate change. They are, by their own admission, “the most vulnerable and marginalized” ever, of everyone. Their misery and poverty is ever so much worse than anyone else’s. They are uniquely disadvantaged and targeted amongst all humans, and most endangered species. Why shouldn’t they also be preferrentially prone to any kind of misfortune, human or natural? So we should be expecting them to demand special mention, attention, and provision in other disaster warnings and responses. It’s only fair, right?
In earthquakes, they are more squishy than everyone else. (If they’ve been on puberty blockers, with their resultant bone loss, this is doubly true.) They get first crack at all the seismology alerts, and the safest spots to stand.
In fires, they are extremely flammable. (Think of all the product in their hair.) They get all the fire extinguishers.
In volcanic erruptions, they attract lava and pumice. And don’t get me started on pyroclastic clouds! They get evacuated first.
In thunderstorms, they are like lightning rods. They get all the rubber soled shoes.
In Tornado Alley, they’re like human trailer parks. They get their own portable storm cellars, strategically placed every hundred yards or so, for their exclusive use.
On airliners, their seats must be more robustly built and crash-survivable than even the flight data recorders.
When the sun goes nova, they’re on the first ships to leave.
Etc.
No cost is too high to protect the Most Vulnerable of All, Ever, and Always. If you haven’t planned for their safety and protection specifically, above and beyond all other so-called marginalized and “at risk” groups, it’s because you want them DEAD.
Bahahahahaha
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