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TheStarkster1465's avatar

First of all, thank you. I'm a 17 year old bisexual teenager who only got introduced to this school of thought a couple of years ago. Instinctively, my brain kept on rebelling against it, not the fact that perhaps some people have gender dysphoria and might want to change their gender, but the fact that it was wrong and transphobic to turn them down. It left me in an extremely awkward situation, because I asked myself, would I date a trans man or a trans woman? And the answer was no. I'm attracted to both men and women, but I do not want to date these people.

I don't mind people being trans. You do you. But do not dare to come to us and say we're transphobic for saying we aren't interested. Complaining that someone's reason for saying no (which is strike one here itself, because you should never need a reason to say 'no') is weak is manipulative and pathetic.

And it's not just dating. It's bathrooms. It's the fucking Olympics. Laurel Hubbard took the place of another woman athlete who had probably spent a lifetime training for it. Laurel Hubbard failed, pathetically, and was still awarded sportswoman of the year. And I think that is fucking unforgivable.

Wrestling. No, men and women are not of equal strength. We are equal but we are not the same. A psychopath pats themself on the back for smashing a woman's skull in, and people applaud them? Seriously??

Bathrooms. You want to use bathrooms? Fine. But self-ID is fucking bullshit. 'If someone says they are a woman then they are a woman'. Nonsense. Do those morons really think that someone looking to commit rape will hesitate to lie?

I'm gonna end with: Stan JK Rowling.

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As a gay man, I came to realize that there is something amiss with the (then) emerging gender identity discourse when I saw what it was doing to the lesbian community. Before that I had naively supported it, just like you. It wasn't long until I started to see something similar happen to the gay male community, with articles in the LGBT press informing gay men of the importance of birth control, because "some guys can get pregnant." A young gay man penned a groveling piece about being ashamed of his "exclusionary" homosexuality that doesn't embrace male-identified females. It was published at Pride.com!

Today it seems that every lesbian and gay space in society is by default a space for heterosexuals who "identify" as homosexuals of the opposite sex. How did this happen? How did we let it happen? We have all been the fool.

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