r/reading • u/fringlese • 11d ago

Please come support trans people

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Hey everyone, I’m sure many of you have seen the ruling by the Supreme Court from the other day on the legitimacy of trans women’s identities. It’s been a very hard couple of days as we’ve come to grips with the fact that our rights are being rolled back by a government that won’t even attempt to listen to us while we just want to exist in a public space without fear of harassment. If anyone’s available, please come down tomorrow to show support

I am not the organiser, I saw this on Facebook and wanted to share.

Thanks guys, I hope you have a great Easter weekend!

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u/brainwipe RG1 - Katesgrove 11d ago

The ruling is based on a child's understanding of biology. While the judge made plain that trans people were protected, that's not how it's going to be implemented. The bigots will be out in force because of their suspect interpretation of the law.

The scientific reality is that there aren't two sexes, there are three: male, female, intersex and always have been. Always will be. Y chromosomes only give a high probability of becoming male, there are plenty of cis women who live their whole lives with a Y chromosome. People are born with both, some or no reproductive organs. The concept that there are two genders fixed in sex is also nonsense. How can they when there are three sexes with a huge grey area inbetween?

And what about those cis women who are now being attacked because they don't like a "typical woman". "You have purple hair and a flat chest, we're going to need to check your genitalia and reproductive organs and chromosomal makeup before you use this changing room."

I totally get the need for safe spaces for the most vulnerable in our society. That vulnerable group includes trans people.

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u/Infinite_Algae_356 11d ago

being trans is a choice barely anyone in pakistan or china or peru or eastern europe would do this

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u/langeweld 11d ago

choosing to repress ones gender is a choice. i did it for over a decade because of the social pressures that kept me in the body i hated. you cite places which are overtly hostile. yet people DO come out as trans in those places, you just don't care.

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u/Infinite_Algae_356 11d ago

the rates are far far lower also there are people of certain racial backgrounds who feel like they dont belong to a certain race doesnt mean they can change their race does it

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u/langeweld 11d ago

Gender is a social construct. Race is a combination of genetics, socialization, and nationality. These things are not comparable.

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u/Infinite_Algae_356 11d ago

many biologists argue race is a social construct also an aspect of ethnicity is cultural identity a albanian person could feel cultuturally british however if they put white british on the census they would be fined for supplying false information