You know the worst thing about today's ruling?
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You know the worst thing about today's ruling? It doesn't take into account the primal, overwhelming power of - and I'm going to use the old term - gender dysphoria.
Most cis folk haven't experienced it, though many cis queer peeps know what I mean from a different context. The compulsion to live free or die. I wouldn't be alive now if I hadn't transitioned.
The lucky ones transition before they get there but the rest of us hit a point in our lives where it's transition or die and that's not hyperbole. I always wanted to see a world where transition happened for all before that point, because I barely made it through. That hope is pretty much gone.
Call us mentally-ill if you like. I don't care. I live, or I don't. For the sake of preventing some vile people feeling a bit uncomfortable, you've put our lives in real danger, judges of the Supreme Court.
You're disgusting bigots and any remaining respect I once had for the law has gone. We're outlaws again.
Please boost this unless you don't give a shit.
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You know the worst thing about today's ruling? It doesn't take into account the primal, overwhelming power of - and I'm going to use the old term - gender dysphoria.
Most cis folk haven't experienced it, though many cis queer peeps know what I mean from a different context. The compulsion to live free or die. I wouldn't be alive now if I hadn't transitioned.
The lucky ones transition before they get there but the rest of us hit a point in our lives where it's transition or die and that's not hyperbole. I always wanted to see a world where transition happened for all before that point, because I barely made it through. That hope is pretty much gone.
Call us mentally-ill if you like. I don't care. I live, or I don't. For the sake of preventing some vile people feeling a bit uncomfortable, you've put our lives in real danger, judges of the Supreme Court.
You're disgusting bigots and any remaining respect I once had for the law has gone. We're outlaws again.
Please boost this unless you don't give a shit.
@grayface_ghost The thing that gets me (white middle aged cis heterosexual male with ASD) is that it is simply incorrect. There are beings born with normal female genitalia. Only when they should get hit by puberty and it doesn't happen they discover that they are genetic male, XY, with androgen insensitivity syndrome. There is an almost endless spectrum of biological ambiguous variations. There is no sharp divide, And that is before we start looking at the psyche and things get really complex.
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@grayface_ghost The thing that gets me (white middle aged cis heterosexual male with ASD) is that it is simply incorrect. There are beings born with normal female genitalia. Only when they should get hit by puberty and it doesn't happen they discover that they are genetic male, XY, with androgen insensitivity syndrome. There is an almost endless spectrum of biological ambiguous variations. There is no sharp divide, And that is before we start looking at the psyche and things get really complex.
@burne that’s exactly it! It’s all natural variation, which is practically infinite—and so beautiful! I am appalled at this decision and my heart bleeds for all trans people and their loved ones who must fear the consequences. @grayface_ghost
