My trans gender freind has "Post-traumatic-stress-disorder" (which is really just trauma.) because he was bullied for being trans. Its (mind my language) Fucking messed up. The amount of blo*dy messed up shi* that LGBTQIA+ peaple go through for just being themselves is so wrong. If every person on earth had one peice of corn dropped on their head everytime they be themselves, Then everyone would have to start to like corn dogs. Same with racism, Horrible. Some peaple hate the 15nth docter just because he is black. Which SUCKS and is UNEXPLAINABLY WRONG. (Plus i think he is the best docter.) And the amount of pain caused by LGBTQIA+phobic peaple is So So So inhumane.
Your incredible.
Keep it up.
Cant wait to read the blog!
@Draconid_Jo
22 Jan 2024 04:09
In reply to Treeadore
Sorry for the late reply. (I couldn't get online for almost 3 weeks in a row.)
But yeah, you're absolutely right, and having grown up in a LGBTQIA+phobic environment myself (and still being stuck in it IRL), I understand just how nasty this sort of stuff can get, and also how ridiculous.
What some of these neo-Nazi wackoes are trying to do to LGBTQIA+ people (especially trans people) amounts to genocide, and to me it is just as bad as what happens in abortion clinics all over this country and others, what happens in animal shelters (referring to the hundreds of thousands of "humane euthanizations" each year), what happened in Germany during the Nazi era, or what's happening in Gaza RN. (Cool Palestinian flag PFP, BTW.)
@Treeadore
22 Jan 2024 20:16
In reply to Draconid_Jo
Yeah, the genocide in Palastine, Gaza, Westbank, Ceria, Lebanon, and many more is horrible. (sorry i think i spelt the last two wrong that was not ment to be offencive but im writing on a 3DS so theres no auto correct. *shrug*) like, I cannot write in one comment how horribly revolting *srail is being right now.
Also thank you for the complament!
(Free Free Palestine)
@Draconid_Jo
22 Jan 2024 21:52
In reply to Treeadore
Yeah, it truly is, and just like with the Holocaust, so many people are denying it while it's happening.
You may want to check out this conversation I had on Twitter with a friend of mine (who happens to be an Israeli) who is in a pro-life group called United Prolife, along with me, @DCTheGamr and @HullBreach .
I was being pretty reasonable about it all considering how horrible what Israel Netanyahu's genocidal far right government is doing RN is, but he literally just denied àny wrongdoing by the Israelis, and even rationalized dehumanizing the people of Gaza. (Which I found both disturbing and ironic given how he opposes the dehumanization of preborn children, like myself.)
@Draconid_Jo
21 Jun 2023 03:33
In reply to Wesley388
Good question.
If you mean sports that are exclusively for trans people then that's one thing, but if you mean as an alternative to allowing transgender men and women to compete against their cisgender counterparts then that's very much another.
Trans people (and people in generally really) like to feel included, and to exclude transgender athletes from competing against their cisgender counterparts would certainly go a long way to making them feel left out, as though there is something wrong with them that somehow prevents them from being able to compete against cisgender people.
Although I haven't yet finished writing my blog, I have finished conducting most of my research for it, and without spoiling too much of what's going to be in my upcoming blog, I will simply state that all of these false assumptions about transgender athletes (that trans women are stronger than cis women and that trans men are weaker than cis men) are basically all rooted in the misogynistic assumption that biological males are inherently and unalterably stronger than biological females, which just isn't true.
Oh, and if y'all are curious, y'all might want to check out these articles that I read through as a part of my research for my blog. @i123456@royal-rawr@IblisFlare @DCTheGamr @TheAllyWay
@IblisFlare
21 Jun 2023 22:39
In reply to Draconid_Jo
Yeah there's a lot that just boils down to "hurr durrr, man better because I said so."
@Draconid_Jo
22 Jun 2023 00:46
In reply to IblisFlare
Pretty much, lol!
(What amazes me is how many people actually seem to buy into this crap.)
@i123456
21 Jun 2023 04:38
In reply to Draconid_Jo
well men r natural ly stronger and to say that cis wemen can just get stronger becuz of a man that wants to be a girl is wrong
@Draconid_Jo
21 Jun 2023 05:13
In reply to i123456
Did you read the information in those links?
It isn't as simple as "men are stronger than women", and there are a number of advantages (specifically with regards to sports) that women have over men that cause women to consistently outperform men in a number of different sports.
Also, don't forget that trans people undergo hormone therapy.
(This means that transgender women have less testosterone than cisgender men, which gets rid of that "advantage" that you're saying they have.)
FtM should have the same rights as men but,
not the same with MtF because,
men naturally have more muscle mass becuase they produce more of this hormone called testosterone.
and because men are naturally stronger they shouldn't have all of the same rights
You are saying that, not in a sports environment, or a job competition, but just in general, trans women shouldn't have rights... because they are stronger than the average woman?
If you think that MtF shouldn't have the same ability to participate sports wise as biological women because of the advantage, then why is there not the same issue the other way around for the disadvantage?
@Draconid_Jo
06 Jun 2023 07:52
In reply to IblisFlare
But is there even an advantage? And if there is, does it really just boil down to men having more testosterone?
(Don't trans women lower their testosterone levels as part of transitioning?)
IDK, it seems to me that if allowing trans women to compete were some sort of existential threat to women's sports that more female athletes and feminists would be speaking out about it, rather than a bunch of straight cis white guys in the rightwing media, who are against equal pay for women (particularly in women's sports), the #MeToo movement, and most other things that are pro-woman.
(Although again, I'll obviously need to do more research in order to confirm my suspicions.)
Also, the same goes for FtM trans, as it is my understanding that they increase testosterone levels during transitioning, and should therefore be stronger than cis women who would (generally) have lower testosterone levels.
(Although both women and men have testosterone, and the levels can vary widely between individuals, AFAIK.)
@i123456
21 Jun 2023 05:40
In reply to Draconid_Jo
well even if they do lower there testosterone levels they still produse it and ill say my opinion in the dms lol
Well FtM are able to get stronge4 and cant use it as an advantage so if FtM wants to than yeah but because MtF are natruly stronger its gives them an advantage thats not fair to other wemen
oh. Well next time, mention that (also trans men would be a possible disadvantage in sports, but less of a direct issue)
@royal-rawr
04 Jun 2023 15:39
In reply to royal-rawr
A transgender woman should be allowed the same rights as a woman. No matter how strong she is, feminine she is, or if she has transitioned yet. She is a woman.
(from a sports perspective, i do think there is a problem regarding MtF people performing on womens team. But it is not the ladie's faults, it is the system, and how it is set up)
@Draconid_Jo
05 Jun 2023 01:43
In reply to royal-rawr
Do you think that there are any other important trans rights issues that I should look into in this blog?
I was focusing mostly on the most controversial stuff, that rightwing transphobes tend to obsess over, because I figured if I can pick apart their anti-trans arguments with regards to these issues, then the whole anti-trans argument falls apart.
(That was my thinking, anyway.)
@Draconid_Jo
04 Jun 2023 06:08
In reply to i123456
IDK about all of the relevant science (which is why I have a TON of research ahead of me for this blog, lol), but yeah, I've heard my dad and many conservatives make similar arguments, although I've also heard some rather interesting counterarguments about that specific issue from my (rather transphobic) feminist sister.
(Needless to say, IDK what the truth is yet, but I'm certainly planning on trying to find out.)