brb, gonna go spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to both impregnate and then abort a couple of dozen kids
Am I just thinking of the movie Gattaca or aren’t you capable of picking from viable embryos for ones that have an Y chromosome for that kind of money?
Yeah, you can determine the child’s biological sex with IVF
But that would mean I don’t get to abort my non-trans babies
In retrospect, the “Buy ten abortions, get one gender reassignment surgery free” deal was not good value.
Something I heard Hasan say the other day. Being trans isn’t a mental illness, being anti-trans is a mental illness. Because once you actually start looking into gender and realise its a social construct, you subconsciously start transvestigating people all around you and assuming they are trans (for actions/thoughts/feelings that are normal for heteros)
Horribly paraphrased of course
mental illnesses harm the affected people most of all. Not the case with transphobia except in some select regions
Yeah, I agree. The equivocation doesn’t really add anything to it, it just stuck with me. Thanks for pointing that out.
like, going down the transphobia rabbithole harms them pretty bad. the social isolation from caring too much about a niche issue is real.
being a seen as a weirdo by the KKKlub is still not as bad as being on the receiving end of the Daily Sturmer Propaganda imo
Milo said something similar about TERFism in the UK. TEFFism will take over your entire life, even if you’re otherwise a normal person.
Ah yes projecting. Imagine this, but swap “transing” for Christianity and infant baptism and declaring “hey, look at our new Christian boy! We’ve modified his genitals to our liking”. Conservatives wouldn’t even bat an eye.
I think that’s the heart of it though. On some psychological level rightwingers understand how fundamentally their entire culture is one of grooming and child abuse, I can’t count the number of harrowing tales I have heard from other trans people. So like when they project their fears onto the unknown it has to be even more psychotic than what they are already doing to their own kids. Just to clarify they think that the child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse their culture propagates is a good thing, and its bad when other people abuse their own kids for different ends. The evil usnt the abuse, its that tou arent abusing them right. The idea that someone might like not abuse a child is beyond their imagination.
I’m just starting to become aware of a lot of the abuse in my past too. Things that I used to think were normal that are not ok.
Okay but this is real. When I change my mind on having kids I’m going to treat it the same way I do when I breed pokemon for IVs/Natures/Shiny.
