This notion that the desire to transition means someone is looking to blame their problems on their gender flies in the face of the facts. The best case for gender dysphoria being a real thing is the fact that males who have succeeded in masculine environments have been desperate to transition. Three examples that spring to mind are Caitlyn Jenner, Dani Laidley, and Cate McGregor. Each of them succeeded in environments which are just about as aggressively masculine as you could find. And they all would have known that transitioning would mean they would lose support within those environments.
In particular, Laidley successfully carved out a career as a hard man of football, earning him the nickname of Junkyard Dog. And yet he says he felt that he was in the wrong body from the age of 6.
These people put the lie to the right wing campaign to depict the transgender community as being trendy lefties, those groomed by trendy lefties, or those seeking to rort the system by transitioning.
I want to see more tolerance in the world, not less. The thought of losing my wedding tackle is disturbing to me, but live and let live. The right wing mania for carving out outgroups who can then be used to whip up fear and hate is disgusting. The new strategy the right is using to go after the gays is that the percentage of people self-identifying as gays has Increased from the good old days in the 1950s, meaning people are being infected by a social contagion rather than living according to their own nature. Consequently, they advocate harsh discrimination against them to inoculate them from this social infection. Of course, this will be wildly successful. Gays will be forced back into the closet and will no longer admit to being gay, just like in the 1950s. Job done. I’m not LGBTIQ, a woman or a person of colour but any attempt to treat those who are as lesser beings should be denounced.
In particular, Laidley successfully carved out a career as a hard man of football, earning him the nickname of Junkyard Dog. And yet he says he felt that he was in the wrong body from the age of 6.
These people put the lie to the right wing campaign to depict the transgender community as being trendy lefties, those groomed by trendy lefties, or those seeking to rort the system by transitioning.
I want to see more tolerance in the world, not less. The thought of losing my wedding tackle is disturbing to me, but live and let live. The right wing mania for carving out outgroups who can then be used to whip up fear and hate is disgusting. The new strategy the right is using to go after the gays is that the percentage of people self-identifying as gays has Increased from the good old days in the 1950s, meaning people are being infected by a social contagion rather than living according to their own nature. Consequently, they advocate harsh discrimination against them to inoculate them from this social infection. Of course, this will be wildly successful. Gays will be forced back into the closet and will no longer admit to being gay, just like in the 1950s. Job done. I’m not LGBTIQ, a woman or a person of colour but any attempt to treat those who are as lesser beings should be denounced.