"it would prohibit... gov't employees [&] contractors... from changing their pronouns... bar instructing on gender identity or sexuality... establish 'biological' pronouns as.. policy... establish protections for... 'deeply held biology-based beliefs...'"
@mercedesallen I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO MAKE SURE I USE THOSE VERY PRONOUNS AROUND EVERY KID I ENCOUNTER FROM HERE ON IN. THE GLOVES ARE OFF. I AM GOING AFTER THESE ASSHOLE MOMFUCKERS WHO THINK THAT THEIR "DEEPLY HELD BELIEFS" SOMEHOW JUSTIFIES THEIR DEEPLY INGRAINED INSANITY AND FASCISM. I WILL SAY GAY EVERYWHERE IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE AND WILL MAKE SURE YOUR GOD DAMNED LITTLE IDIOT KIDS HAVE TO SEE IT, SAY IT, AND YES EVEN FUCKING LEARN ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!! YOU GODDAMN FUCKING ASSHOLE MORONIC PIECES OF UTTER FILTHY PIGSHIT!!!!!
"It claims that the treatments Carlan pursued over many years for his gender dysphoria amounted to conversion therapy, because the provider... should have known Carlan would later come to believe he was motivated by internalized homophobia..."
@mercedesallen I know that gender identity and sexual orientation aren't always the same thing. I'm just hearing a lot of oddly (maybe not that oddly) stereotyped thinking from trans people when they explain why they transitioned. For example, that actress from "Juno" who decided to transition - in an interview asked about why she transitioned, she said she always had liked women from a young age.
Maybe that's the exception to the rule, but I seem to hear a lot of the same kind of thinking. And it's not so strange given how we inculcate young minds with ideas about what men are supposed to feel and be, and women also. I have no personal beef with anyone transitioning, just trying to better understand it.
@mercedesallen I think so too. I think there's more stigma to being trans than being gay nowadays. I don't get the stigma at all - I mean, what a person does with their own body and/or identity, really is no one else's business and certainly doesn't seem like such a big deal to me.
Ideally we'll (someday) live in a world where no one has to hide who they are, and anyone can change their gender without it upsetting someone else. I mean there are so many other things to worry about and other issues that really need our unilateral involvement.
The film also preceded much of the "groomer" panic in Canada:
"Right-wing commentators... went out of their way to tie [Sound of Freedom's] central plot of combating child abuse to anti-immigrant screeds, without ever explicitly endorsing QAnon..."