The costs of trans visibility
Yesterday, Dylan Mulvaney broke her silence: https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanmulvaney/vi....
For context, this is a trans influencer who built a 10 million strong following on TikTok. She took a brand deal with budweiser to post an ad on an instagram, and the anti-trans right went absolutely ballistic, calling for a boycott, condemning the company, and to some perhaps unknowable degree it influenced that Budweiser sales dropped by a 1/4 and
. Dylan speaks more personally about the effect of the hatred on her.What strikes me about this story is that it is just about visibility. This isn't inclusion in sports or gender-affirming care for minors, it was just that a trans person was visible. This wasn't even visibility in a TV commerical that a poor right-winger is forced to see, it was an ad on her own instagram page. We're all in our own social media algorithm influenced bubbles, but from my vantage point it really has seemed that in the last year or so things have just gotten worse for trans people and the backlash to even minor visibility is growing.
We need to do better.
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Thanks for your info. I wouldn't put those things in the same category as trans related hormones or surgery, but it is relevant.
Ye all Kids everywhere in the world were master spies capable of hiding their belief they were of the opposite sex to everyone in their life, forever.
OR, the disastrous policies the left enacted convinced a decent number of people with non standard sexuality to actually be trans
Society once freaked out about acid rain, so the whole concept of climate change is a complete fraud right?
I think child spies (sneaky kids hiding their feelings from their parents!) and policy shifts actually brings us to a closer and more honest representation of why these numbers change than indoctrination in school, so you're inadvertently stumbling into a point here
Spies only one moving part to a larger cultural shift of course
I agree with you, my opinion doesn't matter either because I am not the patient or family member.
Name a medical procedure other than abortion, gender affirming care, birth control or cosmetic procedures that you and society feel you have a right to interject your beliefs into the decision making process.
Also the idea that a larger % of children who identified as Trans weren't hiding or lacking the ability to comprehend their feelings way back when seems... off
Ummm. Acid rain was an actual problem that we (mostly) solved by reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.
The satanic panic was an actual fake problem that we solved by ridiculing the right wing nutters who were freaking out.
One of the two is directly analogous.
lol acid rain was an actual problem roflmao
everything we pay for, directly or indirectly.
if you pay you have a say.
abolish all socialism in healthcare,make it like food, where every one buys what he wants with his money without subsidies, and we are good.
you want any money from me I get a full right to decide when, if, how, why it is spent in full detail
I would guess you would also be against government subsidies to farmers, correct?
When you say that you want a say if you pay, isn't that what the elective representatives are for? Or do you believe somehow you should be consulted personally? Let's say you paid $20k in taxes. That doesn't actually by itself fund much of anything. So if you expect details, if they could say "well your 20k was used to buy 10% of a single $2 million cruise missile so you don't get any say in any other aspect of the defense budget and no say about any other policy or program bc you didn't pay for any of those, is that ok? Or do you think your $20k somehow gives you a right to determine where a trillion dollars of stuff goes?
should we play this game again? a guy writes that "who am I to say what I want for medical procedures on others".
I answer u ****ing pay for them so I have a right to talk.
someone else comes and says "it's a representative democracy so you actually don't matter".
wait a sec. my point was just that I could express what I think should be cover and what shouldn't with my money. then ofc I hope my representatives pick up this preference and legislate accordingly.
which, guess what, they somewhat are doing in some jurisdictions.
I would prefer no healthcare had ever anything to do with any political choice. no subsidies. given I live in a world where the majority wants to pay for healthcare for everyone's then I talk about what is worthy of coverage and what isn't.
Ok. I took your post wrong then. Of course everyone can express their opinion. I was responding to your statement that you have the right to decide, rather than just express an opinion. That's a big difference.
you want any money from me I get a full right to decide when, if, how, why it is spent in full detail
Ummmm. It is settled science. You might be surprised to learn that the sun rising in the east is also settled science.
This might not be too complicated for you to understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain#....
I can help you read through it, if you'd like. Make sure to check out the section on "controversies" on the page. It doesn't happen to exist, which is kind of a hint.
That is actually ok. We aren't in any danger of running out of pasty people, so it is far from genocide. Plus, it primarily took out the weakest of the master race, improving things for our future.
As a fellow pasty person, I can say that sort of thing.
I reject any stories about some weak-ass white person with a bad back getting on heroin after a stint with Purdue Pharma's junk. If they were a halfway decent white person, they would not have had a bad back in the first place or not do some dumbass job such as being a coal miner. They are weak and they need to be culled for the good of the race. This isn't indiscriminate slaughter - it is necessary and good slaughter of the weak.
(In case my satire isn't obvious, I think it is really weird that you mentioned the plight of the white people. There is literally no plight.)
sure white life expectancy in the USA is the lowest of any white majority country (and the only one significantly decreasing post COVID) in the world even if the USA spends more than any country in the world in healthcare per person but there is no plight.
everything is fine as it is, china isn't pushing fentanyl in the USA and in the USA only even if the Biden admin explicitly says so, assassinating 60k+ working age American per year (mostly white), everything is perfect.
if I apply you test, what payments are you making into the American or Canadian systems, directly or indirectly?
Once we are done killing off the weakest of our breed, we will be more than fine.
Again, it is odd that you are worried about us. I am not. I can't quite put my finger on why a fellow white man could be worried about the plight of the white man.
my father is and my accounting (financial or otherwise) is family wide as I already expressed several times
Lol. "My dad can pick up a tree"
Your dad should be mature enough to decide his gender affirming care without your input, whether you pay for it directly or indirectly (whatever the **** that means).
I googled and cited a reputable source. You still haven't.
All medical procedures.
They are all subject to law, which is made by representatives of the people, of whom I am one.
But I'm pretty sure you already knew that, as well as the fact that I'm not interjecting my beliefs any more than you are (we're both just participating in an online forum).
The only difference is that I can manage to do it without spewing insults and non sequitors.
It is actually pretty analogous.
You may recall that what started the satanic panic was adults acting on what unreliable children believed to be true, possibly due to the influence of adults asking leading questions.
Pretty poor logic here, especially from a moderator. Did you really think he meant that he should be able to decide government policy on his own? Or that he was just explaining his opinions on what said policies should be, the same as you are doing.
Let's test those Google skills, cite me some laws that control medical procedures not on my list.
"All medical procedures" sounds like a cop out.