Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.

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Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is part of the thing. If we on the Left can’t have an honest discussion about things that do happen, then it is incredibly hard for anyone not already “on side” to take us seriously.

trans women being reassigned to women’s prisons and then assaulting the women etc economist.com/…/americas-growing-row-over-policie… “Tremaine Carroll, a transferred inmate serving 25 years to life for violent crimes, was charged with raping two women in ccwf and faces trial soon; Carroll denies the charges. In 2022 an inmate moved to Rikers Island women’s prison in New York received a seven-year sentence for attempted rape.”

This is a tricky issue, trans women in men’s prisons are also at risk. But to straight up deny these things happen and deny the existence of non transphobic concerns, well, that’s hard to take seriously.

a 6"2, 220lb woman practically murdering her handball oppoisition

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SJYdXj7Kac&ab_channel=Wi…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Mouncey

Murder was hyperbole, probably inappropriate. But damn, she is just so much bigger than her entire team and everyone on the opposition in all of those clips. (She also dominates in Aussie rules football.)

some fairly sketchy research practices by some of the authorities (WPATH) on the subject economist.com/…/research-into-trans-medicine-has-…

The whole article is discomforting and worth reading. But, while WPATH (what is supposed to, and claims to be and independent science based organization) was creating their guidelines: “But an email in October 2020 from WPATH figures, including its incoming president at the time, Walter Bouman, to the working group on guidelines, made clear what sort of science WPATH did (and did not) want published. Research must be “thoroughly scrutinised and reviewed to ensure that publication does not negatively affect the provision of transgender health care in the broadest sense,” it stated. Mr Bouman and one other coauthor of that email have been named to a World Health Organisation advisory board tasked with developing best practices for transgender medicine.”

Again, I’m generally on board with trans rights etc but to say there aren’t issues just makes it that much harder to take us at face value.

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