just put yourself in their shoes

Me, Grimlock, no see problem.

BOB DOLE!

George is getting upset!

Drones. The answer is drones.

"It's God's judgement."

Reprobate nation and all that stuff. It's like lesbians causing hurricanes.

To them, these are - or can be - connected.

Which is why these issues and the left identitarian fringe that pushes them to center stage are so problematic. It takes two to tango.

Why aren't the Democrats addressing those issues. Do they just shriek about other things? I feel like they shriek about the same things, actually, and that's how culture war bullshit serves both "sides", or should we say the two available flavours of neoliberalism.

Gingrich was a dick

The only way conservatives can be part of the solution is if they take themselves out of the equation.

Newt may have been the last but that's his own fault. He oversaw the GOP as it shifted from everyday "shitty conservatives" to insurrectionist nationalists.

I just want to make sure I get that off my chest. Newt heavily contributed to starting this. He's the original McConnell. He wrote the playbook.

Newt Gingrich is a hypocritical piece of shit. Worried about the budget but wanted a capital gains tax cut. Worried about ethics but was fine violating basic ethics. Even when presented with evidence that violent crime was down in 2016, he didn't want to go with the "theoriticians" (aka the facts) but instead went with his gut (aka bullshit). And he is an election denier. Fuck him.

“If we can’t fuck it, we kill it”

more cum for the cum god

“It’s fuckable, sure, but you’re safe. No one wants to fuck you.”

I'm gonna keep sending them pictures of my balls anyway.

When it's a conservative president: We are protecting our country from brown people.

When it's a democratic president: we are wasting funds attacking no-name countries instead of making gas cheaper

That's how it always works. Republicans shit in the bed, but it's only uncovered after a Democrat gets elected. Then they fix everything, only for the next republican to start the process over.

Yes. There's never a reason to stop pushing for more freedom. Happy, educated people make a better society. Keeping people who are different form you silent and miserable so you don't have to have your feelings hurt by being reminded not everyone is like you doesn't make the world a better place, it just gives more power to the people who are pushing all of those bad things you mentioned onto us.

hey as a trans person, respectfully, fuck off. we aren't gonna win our rights by "spreading kindness", we win them by pushing for laws protecting us. until i am not virtually banned in half of the states in my country, i am not appeasing bigoted assholes just to meet halfway on my human rights

the revolution will be won in thigh highs

What skills needs to be taught? I'm genuinely confused by this comment. Are you saying that trans acceptance needs to be taught? Because it already is being taught but conservatives are actively trying to stop that.

Trans people don't exist to fucking teach you

If you weren’t taught, you won’t know.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/transgender-woman-from-nelson-house-attacked-1.3951040

"He started making fun of [a] friend for hanging out with me, saying, 'Oh I didn't know you were gay, I didn't know you were a fag'," she said.

As an activist for the LGBT community, Spence spoke up for herself and the man she was talking with.

Spence says it escalated quickly and the man punched her in the face. So, Spence says she punched him back and suddenly other people descended on her.

"One thing led to another and I was on the ground and the three of them were kicking me in the face," she said.

"They were saying things like, 'Faggot, tranny, bitch.' Really, really mean things, like misogynistic things."

While she was being attacked, Spence said she wasn't sure she was going to make it out alive. While the beating felt like forever, her friends later told her it lasted about three minutes.

Was the attacker in this story "not taught" it's not acceptable to assault people? Should the trans person have been calmly teaching him "this is unacceptable" as she was getting punched in the face?

If people need to be taught "punching people in the face is wrong" then they need to be locked up until they learn that, it's not the roll of the general public.

I have feelings about this, hopefully my venting can explain why this expectation pisses people off. Explaining this shit can be exhausting and just existing as someone who's trans leads to deeply probing questions both about trans people at large and also you specifically. Depending on context, they can be harmless or even supportive in intent. But too often they lead to more icky questioning, disparaging remarks, threats, abandonment, and... so on. Even in harmless cases it's fucking traumatic. I do have some cis friends who ask me completely appropriate questions, but I trust them because they're respectful of my boundaries. Most aren't.

yes, taking the time to level with people, educate, etc is a good ideal, but speaking from experience it's not something everyone can be expected to do right off the bat. The consequences of attempting to do so and receiving abuse in return can be too close to deep psychological wounds that require time to heal.

do consider there's less of us in general too. and explaining parts of the trans experience take walls of text like this one lol. In an ocean of bullshit, we can only do so much to bail ourselves out. We need help, or at the least, we need some baseline levels of empathy and respect from the people we're trying to educate. Or at the absolute least try not to blame us when we're grumpy or skittish about it.

This comment feels like it's from 2017 or something. If you've spent any amount of time on social media in the last few years, you know damn well how this comment would be responded to.

If trans athletes are causing a serious, quantifiable disruption in competitive sports, to the point you can direct me to multiple bodies of evidence that clearly show a trend of cis athletes being overshadowed, then, and only then will I agree there is a problem.

But there isn't.

There was no reason to impose restrictions on trans athletes before there is any data to suggest they were a problem. They only reason is prejudice.

And the same goes for trans people in gendered bathrooms or any of the other shit people come up with as hypothetical problems for pearl clutching. You can imagine all kinds of ways gender could have "environmental" impacts. "Could" is the key word. We're not going to operate on "could". I want "is".

Show me the trends. Show me the data. Show me where it's a quantifiable problem first, then we'll talk.

It’s not that simple. Brains and exterior bodies are not necessarily coordinated like that, and bodies themselves take a myriad of forms.

Don’t be fooled by those saying “there are only Men and Women and That’s That.” It’s not true.

How the fuck does that make it any business of anyone other than your motherfucking doctor, and even then, significantly less often than you've convinced yourself of? (seriously - if your GP keeps asking you about your genitals every time you go in to see them, you should report them and find a new one, E: never mind them even knowing your chromosomic or genetic or even hormonal make up)

You're just a wilfully ignorant transphobe trying to pretend they aren't one.

But you are.

And if that bothers you - you can just stop being one! I guarantee its easier than being a miserable hateful little bigot, no need for all that mental gymnastics, for starters..

Otherwise - fuck off back up your own ass..

I get it. Life’s hard enough.

You attacking people's gender identities is certainly not making life easier.

But there’s a reason why your sex or gender at birth is important.

"Important" and "mutable" are very different, non-mutually-exclusive concepts.

How your body works genetically and how you feel are two different things.

Correct. Which is literally why gender dysphoria and transgender identity exist. Studies have shown that the brains of transgender people more closely resemble that of their gender identity than their biosex. In case you missed it, the brain is the actual conscious part that experiences things and makes decisions in response to what it experiences, not the genitals. The brain can willingly choose to modify the body to fit its own ideals, such is its power. Why should people be prevented from doing that?

The conditions which led to your genetics may be a larger environmental issue and need to be accounted for.

Please elaborate because I have no idea what this means. What larger environmental issue is apart of genetics? The only environmental issue I can think of is which sperm fertilised the egg, which research has shown more or less boils down to random chance. There's no external regulating force that's balancing the ratio of males and females so I don't see why environmental factors should prevent someone from changing their gender.

You're totally right. But the meme is probably referencing the fact that Republicans seem to care a lot about sex and gender when it comes to kids sports, or sports in general. That comes off worse considering Republican states are banning transgender treatment, or allowing conversion therapy. Seems like they really don't like the LGBT community and try to hide it behind "health" related or "sports equality" related reasons.

But there's a reason why your sex or gender at birth is important. How your body works genetically and how you feel are two different things. The conditions which led to your genetics may be a larger environmental issue and need to be accounted for.

Incredible how often when a transphobe is asked to explain these 'important reasons' it literally relates to games. I'm taking about grown adults, so deeply concerned about games with balls that checking whether children who play have balls is now a fixation.

You need to get out of your small town you've never left and meet some people who are more educated who can help you.

But there’s a reason why your sex or gender at birth is important.

Sure, ok.

The point of this meme is: is it really more important than all of those issues listed? Is having a slightly skewed dataset (which will not happen because people that ACTUALLY need to, know that) more important than healthcare itself being a complete disaster?

You're right, it's important for your doctor to know that stuff. And no one else.