While this topic does not fit perfectly into the ideals and theories of technocracy, It has become a very prominent issue and cannot be ignored by any political ideology. Much of this theory also applies to various other groups in society and most likely will be relevant when a new group of people is marginalized or mistreated. In a society that uses distorted science to justify human rights violations and systematic mistreatment of groups of people they marginalize, I feel that technocrats need to speak up and make their positions known. Scientific research has shown brain differences in transgender individuals and current hypotheses state that hormone levels affect the brain of the person during development in different ways than the person’s body, and that there may be other genetic or prenatal differences that contribute towards a person becoming transgender. It is also noted that being transgender is intrinsic and support from family can lower the risk of self-harm or ideation from 60% to 4%. Many of the motivations that some individuals have to try and force transgender people to conform to their own ideas of gender or expression come from right-wing extremist or religious ideologies that have yet to be proven by unbiased science. Even the argument about chromosomes causes many real scientists to shake their heads due to many cisgender people sometimes having varied chromosomes or variations that make their chromosomes different from the assumed standard.
Additionally, technocrats must be aware of how the mistreatment of transgender people is being executed and justified by society. There exist claims of transgender people engaging in sexual crimes or using transition as an excuse to enter the bathrooms of the opposite gender, but the actions that the people suggest as solutions show that they are not honest about their own motives. Instead of gender neutral bathrooms or security to protect anyone in bathrooms from harassment, they go on to put bounties on transgender people in public bathrooms (Texas) or simply pass laws that allow for the arrest and detention of any person who uses a bathroom that does not match the gender assigned to them at birth (Florida). Trans people are not the first group of people to be denied access to bathrooms under shaky pretenses. Black Americans were historically forced to use separate bathrooms under Jim Crow and the justification at the time was just as unconvincing as the ones being used in the present day. The politicization of people’s human rights is a common tactic used by extremist groups and this kind of thinking should not be validated or it can empower bad actors to do more and more harm as well as give encouragement to hate groups. Historically, making the rights of any group of people into a political issue with different parties measuring the pros and cons has been itself harmful to the group while also allowing the society to descend into more barbaric behavior. In a society that has a history of internment camps (Japanese during the second world war and modern ICE facilities) I am very reluctant to yield to anyone wanting to make another person’s existence into a political issue.
While a technocracy is not typically equipped to handle social or cultural problems, technocrats make policy decisions based on experts and science, and this is an issue where the science does not support what is currently being done to a marginalized group of people, and most likely never will. Some people may feel the issue is too sensitive, some people may find it off the topic of technocracy, but being a technocrat means promoting the use of science and data in government policies so I cannot sit idly by when primitive appeals to religion or hatred of people are used by the regime to harass and bully people who need our support.