I feel for transsexual people, I do - they have very hard lives and have often been subjected to genuine and horrific violence (due to a hormonal disorder over which they have no control).
But maybe, it's not hate speech to say that trans activists (and the left in general) are weaponising the notion of hate speech, and that it's not actually hateful to acknowledge that they're better at sport than women, and that it's not hateful to refuse to conflate them with the people who have carried every generation of humanity into existence (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, or until we go extinct).
How is it not hate? You're specifically using a name that a person no longer wants to be used. Imagine a comparable situation, where some person got bullied their whole childhood for a name, almost leading them to commit suicide. The person legally gets their name changed to improve their quality of life, and changes their whole environment. If a new coworker now found out about the old name and started specifically calling them this name - how could you argue it's not hate speech?
This is not about some abstract strange expectations, it's literally: please don't refer to me in a way that hurts me. Is basic decency really something we have to argue about?
Bigots gotta bigot. Politicians gotta pander to their base. Gays are just the flavour of the month. There’s always the Other that can be marginalized and then maltreated.
yarg|2 years ago
I get that it's unkind, but hate speech?
I feel for transsexual people, I do - they have very hard lives and have often been subjected to genuine and horrific violence (due to a hormonal disorder over which they have no control).
But maybe, it's not hate speech to say that trans activists (and the left in general) are weaponising the notion of hate speech, and that it's not actually hateful to acknowledge that they're better at sport than women, and that it's not hateful to refuse to conflate them with the people who have carried every generation of humanity into existence (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, or until we go extinct).
Timon3|2 years ago
This is not about some abstract strange expectations, it's literally: please don't refer to me in a way that hurts me. Is basic decency really something we have to argue about?
captaintobs|2 years ago
jleyank|2 years ago