That's not why you are obsessed with trans people. You are terrified that the next woman you ogle covetously or catcall won't have the parts you expect.
You don't care about protecting women. The only thing you care about is protecting your fragile sense of masculinity.
Because I have thought about why people choose to hyper-focus on trans-folk, and it's one of the few explanations that makes sense, at least for men.
Why would someone say that they're "protecting" women, but advocate against abortion rights, divorce, sufferage, or higher limits on the age of consent to marry?
Why would someone say their religious views are incompatible, but have switched sects twice in the past decade because they disagreed with the direction their previous church was going in?
Why would someone claim to be protecting children from indoctrination yet vote for indoctrination of their own political views?
The contradictory explanations never made sense to me. The self-interested ones do.
Indeed, I did not itemize out every possible rationalization I have seen. The exact shape of the rationalization isn't terribly interesting or germane.
It's the underlying insecurities that those forms of motivated reasoning are covering up for that is far more illustrative.
You can’t hold an entire group of people responsible for the actions of a few extremists, unless you want to stop Christians and Muslims as well. And don’t get me started on all the shit men pull off worldwide, yet I don’t see you rallying against heterosexuality?
> At least most Christians and Muslims accept that others don't believe in their religion and, for the most part, don't force them to act as if they do.
Just like most trans people accept that others don’t understand their way of life, and, for the most part, don’t force them to act as if they do.
Yet you can’t acknowledge that and pretend all trans people are some kind of opaque mob.
Tell me again please how someone feeling they have a different sexual identity from their biological body—and acting upon that with a medical procedure—negatively affects others? This isn't a "belief" thing, but a fundamental hurt they carry with them every single day, a profound feeling of wrongness. How on earth could it trouble you, a—supposedly—straight male, that someone doesn't want to feel that way? What do they take away from you? Why do these people need to be suppressed and drowned out as much as possible?
> At least most Christians and Muslims accept that others don't believe in their religion and, for the most part, don't force them to act as if they do.
I've actually found Christians in America quite to be forcing their beliefs quite loudly upon everyone. Pretty wild to be personally offended by the tiny fraction of a percent that is the trans population (of which an even tinier amount is vocal as you say they are).
But you acknowledge that it is overbearing and undesirable for them to force their beliefs, and if someone called you "bigot" for complaining about this you would probably object, right?
