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  • @wisely@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Based Chameleon [Rule]English
    9•3 days ago

    Yep, it affects everyone. Think of men who can’t be a stay at home dad, work as a nurse, embarrassed to pick up a pink pen, or can’t show emotion, etc. Women who want to do construction work or STEM. Trans discrimination is just that taken to an extreme because the perceived divergence is more drastic.

    Whoever you are, and as straight as someone may be, I can almost guarantee you have been personally affected by the same persecution at some point in your life. This is what gender policing actually is and is also the reason why LGB face discrimination, falling outside of gender norms.

  • @wisely@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Based Chameleon [Rule]English
    7•4 days ago

    An important difference with this though is that standards of care for transitioning has existed for decades to prevent people from being misdiagnosed as transgender. As well as trans women playing sports. It’s only in recent times that a hyper focus has been placed on a minority of a minority trans population for political gain. It’s effective political messaging for people who only recently became aware of trans people living their lives, unaware that this isn’t new. Going from civil unions to gay marriage is progress, going from marriage to civil unions is backtracking on established norms.

    Someone who is below average on her team, transitioned as a teenager, had surgery, is 5 ft 2 and has low testosterone only 1/4 of most women is not at any kind of unfair advantage, and this can be in a non contact sport. The blanket ban is a ban across an entire category of women accusing them of advantages that many do not have. It makes more sense to do as it has been done for decades and follow guidelines that assess the individual player for unfair advantages than to ban everyone across an entire demographic.

    If someone who isn’t trans gets trans healthcare, they are effectively now trans, with gender dysphoria. They will be given access to gender affirming care to make them a better fit back to their original sex, because it is an effective treatment. However, most people who receive trans healthcare are in fact trans. It’s not a fast or easy process either, this is something that takes years navigating the healthcare system, letting HRT take affect, changing documents, getting referral letters, electrolysis, going to court for legal changes, surgery, etc.

    I know several who still can’t afford surgery decades later who desperately need it. I know someone who died fighting for insurance coverage. There is a way bigger concern of people not having access to healthcare than people who don’t need it transitioning despite all of that. Continuing to periodically reevaluate the standards of care to minimize people being misdiagnosed makes the most sense, not banning healthcare for those whose doctors say it is medically necessary.

  • @wisely@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•world ruleEnglish
    113•12 days ago

    Just was discussing this with a friend the other day. In school they taught us cursive, how to balance a checkbook, do math by hand since a calculator will rarely be around. How to develop film, going in person to ask for job applications to fill out. Using paper maps, writing physical letters and mailing them. Doing research in libraries and using encyclopedias. The Dewey Decimal System. Skiing in the snow, observing fireflies. Learning about checks and balances, democracy.