How to make a right
Wrong.
That little nugget of wisdom is floating around on social meeja. It’s idiotic.
There is no erosion of the human rights of trans people, i.e. the human rights that everyone has. There is no such thing as specifically “trans” rights. There can’t be, because “trans” is a fiction, and because making that particular fiction a basis for rights would obliterate women’s rights as well as lesbian and gay rights. It’s unworkable to make it a “right” for men who pretend to be women to force everyone else to agree. It’s unworkable because it’s not true and it drives a tank through women’s rights.
Imagine if trans ideology faded out, to be replaced by an ideology that claims people are whatever military rank they say they are. If I say I’m an admiral, I’m an admiral. Would that be workable? No. How about an ideology that claims people can fly if they say they can? I suppose we could shrug and say “Ok whatever” because it would harm only the roof jumpers, but what if they started taking babies up onto that roof? So, no again.
The slogan sounds cute to people unaccustomed to thinking, but it’s not workable.
A big part of the problem stems from people’s mistaken conception of “trans people” as a fixed subset of the population — directly analogous to gay people: a small group of individuals who were born with an innate and harmless condition that caused them to be discriminated against and persecuted by the rest of society — when in fact “trans people” are an open identity group whose membership can grow or shrink depending on its appeal at any given time or place, just like political movements, religious movements, and subcultures like hippies and punks.
The number of people who loudly announce themselves to be transgender (or who quietly drop the label) is directly dependent on the pros and cons of doing so. Every time you change a policy to make it “more trans inclusive,” you’re not easing the burden on a small, fixed group of people who can’t help but be innately “trans” and who would otherwise struggle to cope with their day-to-day lives without the concessions that supposed trans “rights” offer. Instead, you’re incentivizing more people who’d otherwise have carried on just fine to hop aboard the trans train.
You can see how the conflation of “trans rights” with gay rights came to be. It was a very clever marketing ploy by the trans activists to hitch their wagon to the gay rights movement:
There have always been men and women who, in the privacy of their minds, were far more attracted to members of the same sex. Some of them found the prospect of opposite-sex relationships to be completely unbearable to the point of impossibility, whereas others managed to carry on “in the closet” and go through the motions of heterosexual life, despite their private longings. The number who “came out” publicly was correlated to how well society included and accommodated them. But the number of people who were innately homosexual never actually changed. And no one has been able to identify any drawbacks to legally and culturally incorporating them into society.
The same cannot be said for the following groups of “closeted” people:
There have always been straight men who, in the privacy of their minds, find it sexy and appealing to imagine themselves as women and who would love to make everyone else imagine them as women, too. There have always been men who secretly enjoy crossdressing. There have always been men who fantasize about getting naked in women’s locker and shower rooms. There have always been men who predate sexually on children and who dream of having the kind of unsupervised access to children that women are freely granted and that men are prohibited from.
There have always been teenage girls who long to be boys — to escape from the ever-present burden of objectification. There have always been lesbians who long to move through the world free of the everyday grind of homophobia and misogyny they’re subjected to, simply for looking and acting the way they naturally do.
There have always been gay boys and young men with naturally feminine attributes, for whom the thought has crossed their minds, “If only I were a beautiful young woman, hunky young men would find me attractive instead of repulsive, and I’d be so much more popular! I’m so ashamed to be gay. I feel like a freak…”
There have always been social chasers, people who need to be at the centre of the party, who get unbearable FOMO at the sight of a big glittery rainbow parade they weren’t invited to.
None of these people are innately transgender. None of them need special sex-denialist privileges in order to carry on with their lives. None of them. In fact, everyone — all of society — is far better off if none of them are designated as a separate class of special people who are granted special “rights” to force everyone else pretend not to see their sex. Automatically granting “trans rights” to some of these groups of people poses an immediate threat to the safety of women and children: making “trans” a no-questions-asked all-access pass to women’s safe spaces does just that. Granting “trans rights” to others undermines women’s rights and gay rights by disincentivizing society from its responsibilty to address the burdens of societal prejudice unfairly carried by women and gays, and instead pushes unhappy women and gays to simply modify themselves and irreversibly damage their bodies in order to conform to the status quo. This is what the bogus concept of “trans kids” does.
These supposed “trans rights” are just dragging more people into the growing maelstrom. It’s threatening to drown us all.
Artymorty, here’s another category to add:
There have always been straight, male sex offenders who, after imprisonment, have wanted continued access to more female victims.
Shink is what you get when shrink shrinks.
Or what happensh when your ship hitsh an ishe-berg.
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