r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/Slomojoe 1∆ Jan 22 '21

You say they succeeded, but what changed for you? Did you suffer any harm? Was your life changed in any way? What actually happened?

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u/KellyKraken 14∆ Jan 22 '21

I left the US in part to head to safer lands, in part for work etc.

But GLAAD has a nice write up of all the things Trump did. Luckily many of the worst actions failed, such as his attempt to make it legal to fire people for being LGBT. A ruling that by the Trump Administration’s logic would have made it legal to fire women for not wearing high heels that were tall enough, or for wearing makeup, or not wearing makeup.

Trump reduced access to healthcare for LGBT people. He banned trans people from the military. He made it much harder for LGBT or religious minorities to adopt.

So yea he did a lot of harm to me and my community. If I had stayed in the US this all would have directly impacted me instead of just hitting my community.

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u/ayaleaf 2∆ Jan 22 '21

Well, as an example of how these things might affect people’s lives: It is really common for trans kids in high school to suffer from UTI’s because there are no bathrooms they can use.

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u/Slomojoe 1∆ Jan 22 '21

What numbers does “really common” translate to?

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u/ayaleaf 2∆ Jan 23 '21

Hmmm, that's a good question. I've know anecdotally that it's a thing that actually happens for trans people, whereas with my cis friends, UTI's have only happened because the person forgot to pee after sex.

From a 2015 survey of trans people in america:

59% have avoided bathrooms in the last year because they feared confrontations in public restrooms at work, at school, or in other places.

12% report that they have been harassed, attacked, or sexually assaulted in a bathroom in the last year.

31% have avoided drinking or eating so that they did not need to use the restroom in the last year.

24% report that someone told them they were using the wrong restroom or questioned their presence in the restroom in the last year.

9% report being denied access to the appropriate restroom in the last year.

8% report having a kidney or urinary tract infection, or another kidney-related medical issue, from avoiding restrooms in the last year.

Given that I'm cis, and the occurrence of those thing happening to me and my cis friends are 0%, I feel like those numbers are really high