Indeed. people should be allowed to pop their eyes out with corkscrews because of feels.
The same way the Las Vegas shooter stands for all gun owners I suppose.
The Appeal to Extremes, isn't doing any good here.
No one ever denied that there are people with severe mental issues and yes of course there are ridiculous individuals. But are those really the standard? Or just what is prominent and shared among the communities. And honestly, those individuals are really low hanging fruit to criticise. Look at the 100.000 of 'silent' transexuals, transgenders and intersex out there, which don't run around screaming and kicking. Those are the people we have to talk about. Besides, if I would be you, I would try to look past the loud rhetoric and actually try to get behind their arguments. Dude, there are still homosexuals, transgenders and many other minorites murdered for well, beeing a minority. Is it completely far-fetched, that people who are members of those groups sometimes become irrational in their behaviour? See, this is what some mean when they talk about priviliges that some people simply have. Like not having to fear that someone will throw you out of your job, your apartment or worse, when they realize what your sexual orientation is, or that you're not stoped by a cop just because of your skin colour or well, geting your skull bashed in by neo-nazis. And I see this all the time, when I apply for certain positions, I look like the majority, I speak the language fluently and the only thing giving my herritage away, is my name. When I compare this now to black people living here in Germany, or even migrants from turkey, it becomes rather disturbing. My mother for example faced discrimination due to the fact that she's having an accent. A women with turkish herritage and headscarf has to send out like 10 times more applications compared to a native women.
Is it really so difficult to see why transgenders or people which have issues with their gender, are facing issues in our society? A society that is STILL very uptight about sexuality and traped in stereotypical ideas of what masculinity and feminity is. This whole topic, is a prime example of that where a few 'weirdos' as you call them, are seen as a threat. But I am asking my self, what kind of threat? Our manliness? Since when was that something that could be taken from you trough force? No one's standing with a gun next to you an telling you, be less muscline now! If a muscle car and fucking chicks all day long while saying they belong in the kitchen, is your thing, and go and do it. But don't act surprised when this is becoming a thing of the past, just like locking up homosexuals in mental institutions or outright lynching them, if we go some 200-300 years into the past.
Well you got to remember that children can be very insightful/ignorant and sometimes have a understanding/no idea of how these irreversible life altering changes will effect them
And who's qualified to make such decisions now? Mind you, if a 7 year old boy comes to you one day out of the blue, telling you that he hates his penis and wants to be girl now, then it most probably isn't just a phase. You're underestimating children a lot, which tells me that you never got in a situation where you had the pleasure to educate them. Just to make this clear, no one here is talking about performing sex changes to children, just to acknowledge the fact that transgenders should be recognized and not stigmatized, what do you think? At which age, do children realize they are gay? 8? 11? 18? Yes, there are still many open questions and issues to resolve, but hoenstly it's not like homosexuallity is actually 'perfectly' understood and neither heterosexuality, if we are at it.
But that shouldn't keep ups from allowing people to make their own choices and not beeing discriminated for it.
I thought kids doing sex changes - or the support of such - was fringe mentality. Nobody I know, and most are "liberals", would never find that a reasonable prospect.
Most kids don't even understand their own sexuality, they think "kooties" are a thing untill their voice breaks.
Of course it is, but it makes for a great example to scare everyone in to believing western society is falling and everyone is out there to destroy your 'masculinity'.