Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

        • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          13 days ago

          I’m suddenly reminded of that video where Jordan Peterson starts bawling about the “butchers” that “mutilated” Elliott Page.

          Sure do love how to these fuckers all trans girls are groomers and all trans boys are poor innocent girls that are getting groomed into chopping off their breasts. Sure isn’t exhausting at all.

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      13 days ago

      Transphobes need to lie, because “truth is not on their side”, also people feel more empathy for AFABs.

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    14 days ago

    ‘But data suggests otherwise’ is true of essentially all transphobic witch hunts, but that’s hardly going to stop them.

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    14 days ago

    Are the child trafficking pederasts I voted into power the issue? No, must be the kids who are wrong.

    Christ on fucking crutches. Leave the trans kids alone.

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    14 days ago

    This is like the skin-coloured band-aid thing again.

    If it’s a group of people saying they can help trans kids then it’s “social contagion”, but when it’s a societal norm of hatred and oppression towards trans people pressuring them to stay closeted then hey, that’s nothing to do with society, it’s just the standard default.

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    14 days ago

    have they considered that maybe there are undesirable social conditions for being a woman that is making people that otherwise would be on the fence transition out of knowledge that they wont won’t be that much more hated by society. (as in trans men probably don’t have as much visible societal hatred towards them as trans women)