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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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gender and separation of humans based on those lines have been a thing for longer than humans even called themselves “humans”, and transpeople threaten that. So it triggers a flight or fight reflex in people who aren’t used to the concept.

  I find when people know me for awhile and THEN find out I’m trans, their reaction is less “I’m scared”, and more “That’s neat”, but if people find out I’m trans before they get to know me, they will be hostile the whole time.

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• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  some schmucks want to exploit the very basic fear of the unfamiliar, and they pointed it at trans folk to get votes or whatever.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At this point I’m assuming that loads of them either want to be trans, want to have sex with a trans person, but they feel they can’t do either because they were told it’s evil

  It’s the same as the gay hating, any guy very visibly hating gays always ends up snorting cocaine from a gay escort dick.

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• ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Largely because it’s very obviously being used as a political propaganda tool, and any criticism at all is being treated as a horrific crime.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I only know of one, and she’s an expert at everything related to fiber channel and tape drives. So I guess it might be that US conservatives are ideologically opposed to cheap long term offline storage.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is America, we store things in the iCloud or the garage.

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• Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  First, I’d challenge the ‘most people’ part. In my experience most people really, truly do not care one way or the other if someone is trans. But to be fair, this may vary between countries, societies, etc.

  Next, aside from its obvious use as a political wedge issue, and generic fear of the unfamilar, I’d argue that a decent portion of conservatives (in a North American sense) fancy themselves as Christians. There are ideas in the bible re: the ‘place’ of men and women in relation to one another that make deviations from this (gender identity not match genitals, homosexuality, etc.) aborrhent. I personally think those people are missing the actual good things to take away from Christianity, but I’m also not a Christian, so idk.

  I think it’s silly, really - coming out and living as a Trans person, if that’s something folks feel they want/need to do, is one of the most radical exercises of a person’s autonomy and personal freedom. I’m for it.

  Complete aside, but it’s always weird to have conversations with folks who like the idea of transhumanism who are transphobes. Met more than one conservative person who is like this, which is really the only time I give trans people much serious thought beyond “Oh look, a fellow human. Neat!”

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  • CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I live in texas and transphobia is prevalent enough that misgendering is the norm once people hear my voice. I get looks of disgust often enough that I’m used to it, so yeah it varies from place to place and some people don’t know how bad it is because they dont experience it.

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    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ugh - that’s fucking gross of people, and I’m sorry to hear that.

      My argument was more when considering ‘most people’ - most people is a lot of people. An individual doesn’t really interact with most people. But that said, you can certainly interact with ‘enough people’ that an expectation of shoddy treatment is pretty reasonable (if a pretty bullshit set of circumstances individuals shouldn’t have to suffer).

      Pedantry on my part, I guess, along with likely blindspots I have as a cis male. Fuck transphobes…such meaninglessly hurtful bullshit.

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• Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If I remember correctly uvalde was a trans person, but most of the time its just people using one good thing about themselves to justify being horrible. Think holier-than-thou type shit.

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  • IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You are parroting a lie

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    • Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn if only I acknowledged somehow that my memory was imperfect and I may be wrong, maybe by saying smth like “if I remember correctly”.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uvalde shooter was not. www.bbc.com/news/61607042

    Nashville shooter was.

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    • Beldarofremulak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The NYPost has an article about the Nashville shooter. Before she went through with the shooting she texted an old friend about it. The friend got interviewed and for whatever reason the NYPost used a Facebook picture of her all glammed up. It’s really out of place.

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  • AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was Nashville, not Uvalde.

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    • TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Off topic but it’s quite fucked that there are so many of these that we mix them up ooof

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• nullPointer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  so the only redeeming value of trans people is that they don’t shoot up schools?

  /s

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• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because they tell teenagers that you might accidentally kiss a man and let hormones and immaturity handle the rest.

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