I don’t think there is such a thing as “transgenderism”, as it is not an ideology. It is a human trait, such as this person is transgender, or that one is cisgender.

There is another issue I take with this approach. You seem to think that transgender people (in the positional sense you employ above) acquire the societal customs surrounding the sexes (like skirts and make-up or ways of talking and walking) and equate it with “being that sex”.

This is not accurate though. There have been studies who show that trans people are no more stereotypical feminine or masculine than their cisgender peers. Cis people are all over the place with respect to gendered societal norms, and the same is true for trans people. (And of course non-binary trans people challenge the norms even further.)

To better understand what gender identity is, consider the horrific assignment of gender performed on intersex people. When infants have ambiguous sex organs, a doctor decides, often on his own visual inspection about the future ability of the organ to penetrate, whether to mold it into a penis or a vagina, and not even tells the parents, so they think they’ve got a cis boy or girl the whole time. Over the years it has turned out that these people feel uneasy and when seek answers they discover they should have been another gender all along. So it is something in their brain that tells them “I am not the correct gender”. The same thing happens to transgender people. This is what it makes a protected trait.

Also, the provided definition of “acquiring the societal custom of the opposite sex thus becoming the other sex” does not account for dysphoria, a feeling of unease to the primary reproductive organs or secondary sex features (like body hair, breasts, muscular structure and the like). And it is very shallow from a sociological perspective as to how deeply ingrained are these customs to the identities of cis and trans people alike.

The starting point here is usually to notice how asking about a baby’s gender is the first question asked, and everything is shaped from there (baby room coloring and selection of toys, the content of compliments, and conditioning their plans for the future).

People never complain about cis women “always” being such stereotypical dolls and cis men being such insufferable chuds. They only complain for specific trans people that are performing at the extremes, and the only reason is that people don’t see trans people’s gender are equally genuine.

That’s because the US rebuilt Germany, as a barrier to the USSR.

Say what you want about psychoanalysis, but if this isn’t a defense mechanism against owning their own tendencies, then I don’t know what it is.

Wow, that’s good to know. Did you know the blocking feature in Activity Pub also ended up there because of queer and feminist people?

Also reminds me of Party Block, a discontinued Twitter blocking app developed by a feminist tech-startup. And Shinigami Eyes of course. The blocking system of BlueSky seems to have best of both worlds. This is exciting!

Probably they mean server as in Discord server. Whether that’s accurate for Rocket chat they based it off, I don’t know.

Well, pro-trans and pro-gay hacks both I guess.

This is interesting. Why build on the backs? Did trans people contribute to it a lot, or are we talking about the early user base?

Wait what happened here? Did the GPT understand what the hooman did not? R O F L

Right? There is so much more juice in the article. Plus a honorary mention to the gay furry hacking of Heritage Foundation some time ago.

It gives hope, innit?

they dont know how to tell when someone is trans even though they’re convinced they do

The word you are looking for is “entitled” to know when someone is trans. The sight of a passing trans person causes them existential terror.

Fellas is it gay to have sex with a woman?

This is not the first time that this paradox pops up. Couple years ago I heard the same thing for people who want assertive women, sexually speaking. So, any divergence from heteronormative roles in the most rigid sense is considered “gay”.

Man dial it down a bit, I am combating transphobic ignorance on Lemmy almost full time. I am just worried that the only ones seeing our good arguments are you and me. Otherwise, I won’t respond to that tone.

Exactly. I said it is so good that more people should see it.

Let’s do our part people and stop downvoting each other…

Nice, but what have you done today so that more people see this info, so that we have less next door ignorance like what is manifested all over Lemmy?

the consequences like rental cars costing three times as much because 19-year-olds are fucking stupid

This is a slippery slope fallacy. People are arguing in favor of a careful, suitable, medical treatment, not in favor of utter relentlessness. Unless gender is that important to your worldview, that society is at risk of immediate collapse because of gender affirming care??

People over 25 can do whatever the fuck they want. It varies for 18, 21 etc

Exactly. And other things people can do at 16, that they can’t do at 12. Do you have specific arguments^[1] about the age range of gender affirming care?

A trans person in their 25-30’s having undergone puberty will have to undergo expensive and painful procedures that could not undo all of the unwanted effects of puberty. Do you think this is a better outcome? Experts don’t!

And most importantly: What do you think gender-affirming care is?

Dude, the rest of the world elects Hitler wannabe’s like all the time.

Project 2025 was considered unique in detailing how to get rid of checks and balances, ergo terminate democracy.

I thought it was considered unique in detailing how to get rid of checks and balances, ergo terminate democracy.

don’t know where to start looking

Ergo first order of business, construct such list.

I am not subscribing to this bullshit, and I am sad my comment enabled you to spew it out. “Me too” was a valid and necessary movement to combat sexual assaults that were institutionalized in many industries and protected by law enforcement and judicial authorities. Many prominent figures went rightfully to jail for sex crimes, and the proportion of women lying about it is rather small to make a political argument off it. Tracing back “liberal-themed supremacy movements” to Jewish supremacism sounds to me quite close to Nazi conspiracy theory, to take any of this seriously. I am sorry this reached my feed, and I can’t wait to engage the likes of you in combat.