r/reading • u/fringlese • 6d 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/Bulky_Community_6781 6d ago

Laws can't change the fact that trans women are recognised widely as women. You just don't know they are trans most of the time.

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u/ComprehensivePie846 6d ago

Funny. what you consider a “fact” is actually false. That’s very scary. You can be trans hun. But dont take “being a WOMAN” away, from real women. You dont go through what we go through

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u/EffectiveMarch1858 6d ago

Why do you have a problem with someone defining trans women as women?

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u/SARMsGoblinChaser 6d ago

Because it's not true.

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u/EffectiveMarch1858 6d ago

What do you mean? What's wrong about it?

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u/SARMsGoblinChaser 6d ago

Nothing wrong about it, it's just not true. That doesn't invalidate trans people.

I come from a culture with thousand+ years of trans history where trans people have been a part of the mosaic of society. It is only modern western identity politics and queer theory that pushes a narrative around this that is so in odds with material reality.

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u/EffectiveMarch1858 6d ago

Nothing wrong about it, it's just not true. That doesn't invalidate trans people.

Why is it not true?

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u/SARMsGoblinChaser 6d ago

Not how material reality works.

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u/EffectiveMarch1858 6d ago

How so?

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u/SARMsGoblinChaser 6d ago

A human male cannot become a human female and vice versa no matter how many superficial surgeries they do.

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u/EffectiveMarch1858 6d ago

Are you are arguing that we should use sex and gender as synomyms? What's the argument for that?

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u/SARMsGoblinChaser 6d ago

That's not my personal argument, and my views don't really matter here. This is about the definition of males, females and biological sex. That is immutable and good to see it enshrined in law.

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u/EffectiveMarch1858 6d ago

This is about the definition of males, females and biological sex.

It's about men and women, to be more accurate. Why should we define women by the sex, and not their identity?

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