Transactivists have succeeded in shutting down many lesbian gatherings.
It's becoming "normal" for people who look like men to enter locker rooms and shelters and such.
Transactivists are demanding that they be allowed to provide healthcare, even when patients do not want people with the other kind of genitalia to provide that care.
There are many medical situations in which biological sex is crucial to know.
And so on.
The summary opposition to trans activists is this: There are only two sexes, and sometimes that matters.
It's important to be precise here, and not conflate gender and sex.
Ehh I’m a little skeptical of such claims. Not saying it didn’t happen, but I find that such claims usually have a lot more going on “behind the scenes” if you get me?
However, on the face of it, I will agree that those are indeed troubling if true
Though I will point out that there are in fact many cis women who “look like men” you know?
And vice versa even!
Such legislation is popping up in other western countries, and (while i don't have it off the top of my head), I think we're starting to see "misgendering" as a crime. (And I can predict responses other posters will have to this, sigh.)
Having worked with the public, trust me when I say, gendering people isn’t always as easy as people assume it is. That’s ignoring the existence of trans people even. I’ve misgendered many a cis person in my time by mistake. Luckily, being an Aussie, I could just blame the booze and everyone went on their merry way.
As to the hate crimes.
I’ve heard of legislation making
intentional and
prolonged misgendering people into crimes. Not sure about them being hate crimes, but minor crimes at least. And yeah that is a thing and is used to actively harass people. Both trans and cis folks alike. It should come with some consequences. Particularly in work environments. Don’t agree with them being turned into hate crimes, unless such misgendering was used in conjunction with other crimes against an individual. Which I think is the argument being made, if I’m not mistaken. Context is key!
The irony to all this is that transphobia actively causes these societal discomforts and arguably even exacerbates them. Transplanting them onto cis people even!
It accomplishes this by fixating on gender identity or people’s active skepticism of such claims and starts to put even more pressure on women to be more traditionally feminine and men to be more traditionally masculine. When in reality people, trans, cis, intersex etc alike come in all shapes and sizes. So cis women end up bullied for being perceived as trans or “not real women” due to these standards. I’ve seen it happen. I’m sure the reverse is true. It happened when homophobia was a thing too. It caused straight people who fit into gay stereotypes to be bullied for being gay. Even though they literally weren’t. History repeats itself, I guess.
Why is this different that for driver's licences, voting, alcohol, and so on? In many cases, society has decided that minors are not mature enough to make complex, life long decisions.
Because they don’t require medical intervention? Well alcohol may I guess lol
And parents are not experts and most doctors are not experts. It's not the case that doctors who have a lot of experience with trans youth are readily available.
Eh? Maybe 20 years ago. And possibly in the US in places, idk
But unless you’re living in the middle of nowhere (like, for instance, in the outback of Australia where there’s like 10 people to a town) I don’t know if that’s the case anymore.
At least in Australia, doctors are literally required by law to refer their patients to actual trained specialists, if the case requires. A trans youth is definitely an instance of such a case. And I would hazard a guess that a doctor, specialist or not, knows far more about trans youth than either of us do. And more than many parents for that matter.
