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[hackermatic]

Hi, trans person here. My main concerns in life are having a job, a home, health, family, and friends. When I go out in public, I have the same hopes and fears as anyone else I know, except I also worry about being accosted on the street or in a public restroom while I'm minding my own business. Since you brought it up, at what point do you view transgender people's lives as becoming ideological?

[WanderPanda]

I would like a world where this does not happen but I also think that none of the things you say are issues of politics/equal rights. While not nice, these things seem to be well within the rights of the other people and I don‘t think you should try to force to change their minds through political means/power. I actually think the US has quite a good way of dealing with this by allowing a lot of differences between the states. In that way you can go where you‘re treated best and the other people can go where they like the lifestyles of the others the best. Forcing a national average is a recipe for disaster/division.

[bunglefly]

The ideological part is the basis behind changes to policy and law such that single-sex spaces become mixed-sex spaces.

For example, opening up women's locker rooms to men who say they are women. This is to the benefit of the men who desire such access, but to the detriment of women who want to keep their female-only safe spaces. Whether cases like this constitite a justifiable change in policy or not is where the ideological divides lie.

[throwaway290]

Hi! As a trans person, what is your take on the cancellation of JKR and when someone got fired for IIRC just using the term "woman" in UK? I'm not in US or UK but I see those issues as ideological.

The issues you listed are completely fair but some think trans people being safe, having a job and being generally equal can coexist with the concept of a woman, but some don't think so. I guess/hope the above comment referred to that.

[IntelMiner]

Transphobia isn't cool. Sorry human rights are too "leftist" a position

[soligern]

What human rights? Sure killing or harassing cross dressers is abhorrent but otherwise no one has been bothering these people to begin with.

[JellyBeanThief]

If you want moderate views to prevail, you need to be working for ranked choice voting. The system we have now rewards extreme candidates. All the internet does is supercharge that. If we don't adopt a voting system that enables voters to punish extreme candidates instead of having to choose between the least undesirable of them, we're just going to keep on having despairing comment threads about the state of politics.