The costs of trans visibility

Naw. Poker is illegal here, so I wouldnt want to give that up for a dress choice. It's even against the law for an individual to own more than 2 decks of cards. Besides, all expats are required to wear the official expat uniform: shaved head, black T shirt, black (or dark blue) shorts, and black athletic shoes. No deviations authorized. 😀

The old folks who dont get scammed are the same ones who dont believe anonymous polls are really anonymous so dont tell them personal ****.

I have no problem taking my meds. I always take them. My problem is that 10 mins later I cant remember if I took them so to be sure I take them again. That's why I find it so funny when people here accuse me of playing favorites because some posters hold this political position or that, as if I remember (or GAF) who holds which positions on what from previous posts. 😉

Yes. Vaping is illegal here.

Yet There's a weed shop on every block now. But the government is looking to reel that in. I doubt it will actually happen, though.

jeez I remember trying to validate a source claiming some swiss guys were arrested for vaping there years ago and feeling truly bad when it came out it was actually true :-(

sad to hear that's still how it works

Vaping illegal in Colombia too but people still vape.

south eastern asian enforcement of rules is usually very strict compared to Mediterranean/Latino enforcement of rules

It's a pretty horrible habit and cigarettes are probably healthier for you. Same with weed vape vs actual weed. I've never tried for the former but I have to really want some THC in my system for the latter.

You have a very unusual definition of lying.

So do you think a black person is lying if they say they are white in an anonymous survey?

This is true. It's clearly not okay to make sweeping generalisations about entire groups of people.

It is also true to say some trans people are not actually trans, but are using a trans identity as an expression of their poor mental health or gender dysphoria. An example of this would be Keira Bell and the many others who were misdiagnosed at Tavistock.

Posters should be aware of this distinction when commenting.

One thing the anti trans activist and their extremist friends forget is that trans people want considered , thourough reporting and want to be made aware of bad clinics and poor diagnostic practices. They want to know and are more interested in unethical doctors than the anti trans extremists ever will be.

Of course, the standards, success rate, and client satisfaction rates for gender affirming care are much higher than that for other fields of medicine, many doctors study the model of gender affirming care to apply to their unrelated practices in hopes of improving patient care.

Taviatock was ran improperly because of poor funding and has been corrected. the biggest problem in tavistock was that it was the only clinic of its kind for a large area, so wait times were huge. Now there are regional centers. Also Britain has a lot of problems with their healthcare service.

To act like concerns involving an entire group of people are the same as one patient who did not receive proper care is insane.

I’m not going to dignify the idea that people who are having trouble coming out are “liars”.

Just browsing the last handful of posts, I’m noticing multiple people use the phrase “actual trans”, so now I have to comment. Assuming you aren’t trans — speaking to those of you using this phrase — do you have an actual gender too? By ‘actual gender’ I of course mean a gender completely independent of your bio sex and completely independent of your identification.

Or do only “actual trans” have an actual gender?

I didn't say they were "liars".

You think the older generation is not telling the truth, for whatever reason. I think they're being honest. There is no way that 5% of the elderly secretly consider themselves to be trans.

I don't believe gender identity is a useful term. I don't believe people have a gender as distinct from biological sex. Gender refers to which social roles and customs are typically associated with male/ female sex (knitting vs. fishing/ nurse vs. auto mechanic/ dresses vs. tuxedos, etc.), as well as social and linguistic (in some languages) mannerisms associated with one sex or the other.

I believe trans is a term for people who have a mismatch between their birth sex and the sex they wish to be perceived as in society.

If I use the phrase "actual trans," I am referring to people who experience this mismatch and choose to live socially as the opposite sex. I would use this phrase to contrast people are adopting a trans identity either due to a social contagion, or for impure purposes (like a man trying to gain access to women's spaces for sexual gratification).

If gender is a continuum then everyone is trans, hopefully that helps.

Yes Elrazor, we get it, the transphobic trope is to to endlessly center the conversation around all the fake mentally ill non-trans people you imagine there are. You don’t need to repeat it for us.

lol no for tobacco 100%. No idea about THC that substance is poison for my body so i don't take it

Just so you know, it’s extremely homophobic to pretend that gay people who were misdiagnosed as trans do not exist.

this would have only offended him 3 years ago, now he has a new group to white knight for

Ok, you’re using it to mean those who strongly identify as trans, not for those who have a single gender which is independent of whether or not they identify with it. Because if we each have a single (independent) gender, then we can expect ~ 50% of the population to be “actual trans”, right? I would add that many who adopt the trans identity due to social contagion also develop a strong gender identity, so I personally would distinguish it by those who strongly identify as trans and those who don’t.

We can and should empathize with the people who strongly identify with the gender opposite their bio sex, while avoiding the propaganda which says their trans identity is not simply an identity but who they are independent of identification (meaning even before they identified as trans, they were trans).

Misdiagnosis exist a lot in every field.
Denying this would be wrong.

If You speak of misdiagnosis of trans however, youre a homophobe.

This response bears almost no relation to what uke wrote. It’s also rich for you of all people to claim someone like uke master is being homophobic. gross.

I think he thinks he is being clever.

It isn't gross.

If in the victim hood ladder you put trans people above homosexuals, which is what radical activism is doing right now, and you claim trans women are women, you are forcing lesbian associations to accept people with dicks (a very violent enforcement of your preferences) against their will, or lose their tax exempt status, and that's homophobia.

And it happened in the UK. And it is being litigated, it's not an hypothetical