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You hear about transition, and imagine wanting to live in the wrong body. But that's the thing - we already live in the wrong body. To us, transition is fixing the problem.

If you were to transition, you would get dysphoria. We were born with dysphoria and transition to make it go away. That's why it's unsettling to you. Because you imagine transition as changing away from the body that matches your soul, rather than changing it back to match your soul after some freak accident that made it grow the wrong parts.

You list yourself as christian, so I'll use the word "soul", where I would otherwise use other terminology, because that might work better in your world view.

A class mate of mine had a sister who was born with six fingers on each hand. She had surgery to remove the extra fingers, likely before she even remembers. That's just how nature works. Sometimes people grow body parts that are not meant to be there.

Now let's imagine a god-given perfect soul. A female soul. Unfortunately, there is an imperfection in how her body grows. Just like my classmate's sister grew a couple of extra fingers, this poor girl grows a penis.

Why shouldn't we fix that the same way they did with my classmate's sister's extra fingers?

But instead, bigots insist that when it comes to genitals (their favorite subject), nature must be obeyed, and the god-given soul must be tortured into conforming to a freak accident of nature.

Does this help understanding how the world looks from our side? To make it less unsettling?

It is a wedge issue and a manufactured moral panic, exactly like the gay panic and satanic panic of the 80s, and the so-called "international Jewry" of the 30s.

It always boils down to racists and fascists using an out group as a scapegoat to justify the greater horrors that are to come.

And now in the US we see an example of at least one state who wants to create a list of every Jew in the state, after others started justifying and compiling lists of trans people.

I have been saying for years, that we know how this starts!

Right now all top tournaments and the German leagues are open to women. I don't know about others.

one where drag is an arrest-able offense and will be used to arrest trans people

I live in the UK, but in many ways more transphobic and in no need of such harmful ideas

Rowling hates Khelif because she's a black woman who doesn't fit beauty standards. its not about her fucking genes

even if she has unusual genes, if you get advantage from it, that's the kind of amazing thing that should be on display at the Olympics

but she has a vagina, grew up socialized as a woman, so these people have insane standards for womanhood that 90% of women won't pass

>I've not met a single person who was not disgusted.

For the abovementioned reasons. But there's a reason why "it's not pedofilia, but ephebophilia!" is such a meme.

I'm not going to go into this further: even writing this much feels disgusting.

>Companies are irrelevant here, they're not people.

Well, they're hierarchial communities. That's what the "company" originally means. Again, not going into this further.

You may disregard me, if you wish.

https://theauthoritarians.org/
@cstross

This is a problem for trans people's public participation generally, for jobs - especially ones with changing rooms where people need to change into and our of uniforms, protective gear or contaminated clothing - for jury duty, for pretty much anything at any distance from the home or which takes more than a couple of hours

Meanwhile, the laws aren't solving any actual problem that was happening

That's just one example, unfortunately; if you want more, have a read through something like https://www.erininthemorning.com/

There’s a lot of middle-class and working-class authoritarians our there, who think rights are for the in-group only.

I would go even further, and think of the authoritarian personality, whose unit of action is submission & obedience.

It’s not just coming from above, it’s coming from below, too. People seeing the world order through dominance, also exist in the lower classes.

Fear drives it.