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Originally Posted by jayswin
Pretty tough to take the "There's bigger issues" crowd at face value.
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Believe what you want. I am genuinely fascinated at which of the myriad of human experiences becomes a high-profile issue, and why. It's one of the reasons I spent years of my life studying and working in journalism. But maybe that was all just a ruse to cloak my incorrigible bigotry.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I don't agree with all of your points and to me it seems like you are definitely more anti-bureaucracy than anti-trans, but I'm not surprised that any posts that aren't supportive are met with some pretty fierce opposition. These types of issues often have the bigots hiding behind a veil of other reasons that they use to hide their true agenda.
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I suspect very few people - or very few people who aren't religious fundamentalists - are anti-trans. In fact, I'm not even sure what anti-trans means. Don't believe transgendered people exist? Believe they should pretend to be whatever gender their parents decide? How many people have you heard express those opinions?
No, this is just another social justice issue where a fraction of people are against or uncomfortable with something, a fraction are passionate advocates of it, and most simply don't give a toss. And yet those who are passionate advocates feel they need to bring everyone into their camp, and don't hesitate to accuse any who don't express the correct sentiments or demonstrate the proper enthusiasm of being bigots.
It's all about public piety, no different from what our grandparents were doing in church when they made a public show of wearing their best clothes, singing hymns, and wagging fingers at the layabouts who played pool instead. Virtue signalling, halo-polishing, denouncing the impious - this stuff is all old as dirt.