Trans issues and stories do garner an inordinate amount of traction on Lemmy. I, perhaps naïvely, thought the aim of the game was to normalise society so that race, gender and sexuality are irrelevant. The configuration of other people’s genitals and where they want to put them is of zero interest to me, personally, but I suspect I’m in a minority.
You’re missing the issue, unfortunately. What you say is technically correct, but as long as a minority id actively persecuted they have to be actively shown to be normal and nice people to, well, normalize their existence. And right now the evil people are winning, so it’s even more important to mention it. We’re as far away from trans being normalized like left-handedness as it gets.
I see why this might even annoys some, but it’s not trans people who want to be in this situation. We (yes, hello 👋) just want to fucking live our lifes in peace and happiness, without the constant (additional) fighting and fear for our life.
About Lemmy… well, it’s the current alternative to corporate media. It’s just natural that those who’re vilified and cast’ out are the first to arrive here, as well as their allies. 😉
I’m curious how you would feel about a news platform that doesn’t use gender as a lens of viewing things through at all. Completely de-gender everything using gender neutral language.
Something like “Brave bystander rescue drowning baby while the parent struggles to respond”, applied to everything.
As of now it feels like an arms race. The bad actors highlight gender/sexuality disproportionately for every little negative thing they can find and the good guys respond by highlighting the actual insane amount of good things these groups do.
We’re way too early for that kind of optimism. Race, gender, sexuality, all that and more can’t be irrelevant until all are considered equitably by the law and treated equally by society. Pretending things are fine before they’re actually fine doesn’t help.
Exactly, this is the viewpoint that I’m coming from – they were a good human and no labels are needed to qualify that. The comments from people in the US have made me aware of the need to counter anti-trans propaganda over there though. Labelling is unfair if only one side does it
Trans issues and stories do garner an inordinate amount of traction on Lemmy. I, perhaps naïvely, thought the aim of the game was to normalise society so that race, gender and sexuality are irrelevant. The configuration of other people’s genitals and where they want to put them is of zero interest to me, personally, but I suspect I’m in a minority.
You’re missing the issue, unfortunately. What you say is technically correct, but as long as a minority id actively persecuted they have to be actively shown to be normal and nice people to, well, normalize their existence. And right now the evil people are winning, so it’s even more important to mention it. We’re as far away from trans being normalized like left-handedness as it gets.
I see why this might even annoys some, but it’s not trans people who want to be in this situation. We (yes, hello 👋) just want to fucking live our lifes in peace and happiness, without the constant (additional) fighting and fear for our life.
About Lemmy… well, it’s the current alternative to corporate media. It’s just natural that those who’re vilified and cast’ out are the first to arrive here, as well as their allies. 😉
I’m curious how you would feel about a news platform that doesn’t use gender as a lens of viewing things through at all. Completely de-gender everything using gender neutral language.
Something like “Brave bystander rescue drowning baby while the parent struggles to respond”, applied to everything.
As of now it feels like an arms race. The bad actors highlight gender/sexuality disproportionately for every little negative thing they can find and the good guys respond by highlighting the actual insane amount of good things these groups do.
We’re way too early for that kind of optimism. Race, gender, sexuality, all that and more can’t be irrelevant until all are considered equitably by the law and treated equally by society. Pretending things are fine before they’re actually fine doesn’t help.
Exactly, this is the viewpoint that I’m coming from – they were a good human and no labels are needed to qualify that. The comments from people in the US have made me aware of the need to counter anti-trans propaganda over there though. Labelling is unfair if only one side does it