Oh noes, Reddit is in meltdown. Time to quote a book I've never read ("1984").
Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
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You know, it really isn’t. I’m “Gender Critical”, because like many people born in the 1960s I see women as being a group of individuals primarily discriminated against by virtue of their sex - particularly in regards to contraception and the economic and social consequences of reproduction. Sex is biological and objectively real. Gender is a social construct relating to imposed standards of masculinity or femininity…
Of course sex is real which is why I've changed my sex characteristics through transitioning. Trans people, more than any other group, are acutely aware of the reality of biological sex characteristics.
The transphobia in some of these comments is a true sight to behold. I feel like I've entered the equivalent of Stormfront.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course sex is real which is why I've changed my sex characteristics through transitioning. Trans people, more than any other group, are acutely aware of the reality of biological sex characteristics.
The transphobia in some of these comments is a true sight to behold. I feel like I've entered the equivalent of Stormfront.
Cry more. YWNBAW
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
> shit Ellen Pao got, and she was basically doing a decent job. Those were different times, were the Ellen Pao situation to happen right now again I don't think things would go the same way as they did the first time. This reddit admin person also has the advantage of being a trans, and trans people are the new token individuals (have been for one year and half - two, I guess), I can't see Reddit the company not taki…
> and trans people are the new token individuals You have to be totally detached from reality to actually believe this. Have you not paid any attention at all to the number of anti-trans laws being brought in a number of US states? There's been over 100 in 2021.
Two sides of the same thing. Vilified and sanctified, depending on the group/context.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome". Actually a lot of people say that, cf rhetoric about "a lifetime of hormones and surgery". As someone who has had surgeries and expects to be on hormones for the rest of their life, I think what I did to my body was good, not bad.
You are universalizing your lived experience. This invalidates the lived experiences of other people, who differ from you. Ironically, misapplication of moral universalizing is what leads people to be bigoted against trans people in the first place.
But wouldn't the experiences of an actual trans person be much more relevant to this discussion than our cis asses?
We're never going to have experiences of our own that can inform our judgement on this, so shouldn't we just listen to and trust trans people to work out how to best to make their way in the world?
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course sex is real which is why I've changed my sex characteristics through transitioning. Trans people, more than any other group, are acutely aware of the reality of biological sex characteristics.
The transphobia in some of these comments is a true sight to behold. I feel like I've entered the equivalent of Stormfront.
You're a little beacon of light in a really depressing thread. Thank you for trying. You rock.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The people who otherwise support trans people, but think 'affirmation-only' approaches are the wrong way to go This is a contradiction in terms. Supporting trans people means believing that transition is not some sort of "regrettable outcome". > are forced to forums/subs filled with people who are unapologetically transphobic. The discussion there will often lead the moderate opinions to radicalization. You are the…
Affirmation-only in the form of behaving as if women and transwomen are indistinguishable is not always productive. For an example, if you write a feature telling people to watch and cheer on women speedrunners but you only include people who were successful male speedrunners before their transition you are not encouraging more women to join the hobby.
Obviously cis and trans women are not completely indistinguishable -- they have overlapping but distinct medical needs, for example. This is a strawman position.
However, GCs tend to believe in an oppositionally sexist view of the world, where your assigned sex at birth puts you in one of two firm categories, and any sort of crossing over or breach between categories is impossible. That's how GCs construct their categories.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
Affirmation-only in the form of behaving as if women and transwomen are indistinguishable is not always productive. For an example, if you write a feature telling people to watch and cheer on women speedrunners but you only include people who were successful male speedrunners before their transition you are not encouraging more women to join the hobby.
Obviously cis and trans women are not completely indistinguishable -- they have overlapping but distinct medical needs, for example. This is a strawman position. However, GCs tend to believe in an oppositionally sexist view of the world, where your assigned sex at birth puts you in one of two firm categories, and any sort of crossing over or breach between categories is impossible. That's how GCs construct their cate…
It is not.
https://www.autostraddle.com/6-amazing-women-speedrunners-to...
"Six amazing women speedrunners" and only one of them actually had to build their rep as a woman.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The people who otherwise support trans people, but think 'affirmation-only' approaches are the wrong way to go This is a contradiction in terms. Supporting trans people means believing that transition is not some sort of "regrettable outcome". > are forced to forums/subs filled with people who are unapologetically transphobic. The discussion there will often lead the moderate opinions to radicalization. You are the…
I have a perspective you may find interesting. First I don’t support or attack trans people specifically. I just think people should live and let live so in that regard I do support trans. I have and do socialise with trans people on occasion and we get along fine. With that out of the way I would like to highlight that through ignorance I have many questions about trans. These questions stem from purely curious thou…
I'd recommend reading Julia Serano's Whipping Girl to start.
I'm also happy to explain transness in detail to the cis people I know and trust in real life. Perhaps get to know a trans person among your friends, family or coworkers, and build enough of a relationship with them that they trust you. I generally don't do it on internet forums because of the range of responses I've gotten in places like this thread.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obviously cis and trans women are not completely indistinguishable -- they have overlapping but distinct medical needs, for example. This is a strawman position. However, GCs tend to believe in an oppositionally sexist view of the world, where your assigned sex at birth puts you in one of two firm categories, and any sort of crossing over or breach between categories is impossible. That's how GCs construct their cate…
It is not. https://www.autostraddle.com/6-amazing-women-speedrunners-to... "Six amazing women speedrunners" and only one of them actually had to build their rep as a woman.
Oh, speedrunning, as in video games.
Meh. That's completely unobjectionable to me -- fact is that a lot of trans people used video games to escape from society's bullshit when they were younger, which is why we're overrepresented in video game communities. To the extent that a cis woman has trouble being inspired by a trans woman speedrunner, she should probably work on her own internalized transphobia.
Thankfully, this view is vanishing among younger people: they generally take it for granted that the category of womanhood includes cis and trans women.