BornVolcano

I mean you do you lol but basic grammar disagrees with you. You're basically going "I refuse to use the English language properly cuz I don't like it"

Words such as?

The thing is, no one (male or female) should be looking at anyone's genitalia in a locker room. That's a breach of basic decency and privacy. Eyes to yourself, someone else's junk is none of your business. And I guarantee you the vast majority of transgender people don't want you looking at their privates, either. You can come up with a number of individualized criminal cases, but they tend to ultimately boil down to one of two cases:

1. The victim in question was assaulted by the perpetrator, which is still (and will forever remain) a crime. That is not okay, and it is never okay, regardless of the gender or genitalia of either individual. Be it a cisgender woman raping another woman, a man raping a woman, a transgender woman raping a cisgender woman, a transgender or cisgender woman raping a man, a man raping another man, or any other permutation imaginable. It is not okay. It is a crime. Nobody is trying to rationally argue that that is okay.

2. The alleged crime committed by the perpetrator was "making people uncomfortable", because others took a vested interest in something that should be private. This includes cases of people "coerced" into sharing a locker room with a transgender person, because, more often than not, these situations really boil down to "their genitals make me uncomfortable" when someone's genitals are none of your business. If the individual is directly harassing a person in the changing room with their genitalia, or intentionally approaching them to do so, that is a crime. If the person is simply trying to get changed, and the very act of doing so is offensive to others in the changeroom, that is not the individual's fault. This can often be easier grasped by imagining any number of other situations in which an individual is singled out for a trait that is deemed "threatening" but is inherently harmless: a black woman changing around white women (which used to also be considered "a risk to women's safety"), a lesbian or gay man changing around straight people (with the implication being they would "violate other people due to their attraction", despite the fact that doing so is, and remains, a criminal offence), or any situation in which a person is deemed threatening for something that differentiates them from the other individuals in that room, that is outside of their control.

That said, I do want to again make clear, the vast majority of trans people are not interested in putting their genitalia on any sort of display. A trans person who hasn't undergone bottom surgery, and who doesn't have any reliable means of "blending in" to avoid being singled out in vulnerable areas like changing rooms (for example, tucking, for trans women, or packing, for trans men), will often opt for changing in private areas such as closed restroom or changing stalls. It can get exhausting being treated like some sort of freak show for something as vulnerable and private as your genitalia, and the majority of trans people do not want to be singled out more than they already are. The subset of individuals who do act maliciously and commit criminal activities are no more representative of the overall community of trans people as any other criminals belonging to specific minority groups. It's a strawman fallacy, and a panic derived from the large amount of media coverage on misdemeanors done by trans people, with (understandably) very little coverage on things such as "Trans woman uses women's restroom, and nothing of any interest happened".

I'm pretty sure there are scientific studies on gender and how it presents and structures itself in the human brain that can explain this to you better than I can right now. If you're genuinely curious, there are ways you can learn this, you just have to look.

I'm not going to engage in a debate on this, though, because best case scenario I spend hours of my day only to slightly change your opinion, if you aren't asking out of ill intent.

All I'll say is, because one is backed by both scientific evidence (the chemical structure of our brains and the fluidity of gender and sex characteristics among the species, as the idea of a solid box of "male" and "female" being the only options is something largely, though admittedly not entirely, resulting from the human desire to create concrete labels and categories to organize a spectrum of experiences into neat little boxes we can use to control our reality more effectively), and historical evidence of the existence of gender non-conformity and transition as far back as centuries ago. While the categories of "male" as a larger individual with high testosterone and a phallus and scrotum and "female" as a smaller individual with a vagina, swollen breast tissue, and predominant estrogen and progesterone over testosterone are two very common phenotypes of gender variance in our species, there are a lot more categories, that largely go undiscussed in a society that both treated sexuality as a shameful and private matter (not saying that's inherently bad, just that it's one reason why this matter may not have been readily researched and discussed in modern society), and the trend towards importance and superiority placed on the phenotypic "male" status throughout history. There are cultural and biological examples throughout history of individuals displaying social gender non-conformity, biological gender non-conformity (including alteration of primary and secondary sex characteristics), third gender status, naturally occurring biological traits that exist between the phenotypic boxes of "male" and "female" (more common than you might think), and even the partial abolition of gender standards in certain societies. It really is a lot more complex than we give it credit for. Even elsewhere in the animal kingdom, similar variance is seen.

To put it simply, there's a historical and biological component to the disconnect between biological sex and a sense of gender identity that things like racial identity and age don't have. This ever-expanding understanding and research is at the forefront of a lot of the medical understands of the subject. Additionally, while both incongruence with internal sense of age and development (often a psychological developmental delay or a result of childhood mistreatment) and an incongruence with sense of racial identity (not sure on the causes of this one, honestly) have been shown to show significant improvements with proper therapeutic intervention (and the latter is also a little strange, since racial identity can be divided into two basic aspects - a physical and societal component, which is largely the impact of societal treatment and division based on ethnicity and appearance which is more of a social issue than a deeper rooted biological one, and a geographic component, which is something that can be changed through things such as immigration and cultural integration, but I digress), the disparity between apparent sex traits and internal gender identity has shown time and time again not to show much (if any) resolution through traditional therapy (aside from, yes, a few specific and individualized cases, hence why the process for physical transition often involves consultation with a licensed professional beforehand to rule out any alternative causes), it has been shown to display significant improvement and resolution through medically assisted physical transition. Trans people don't just go through transitions only to want to be othered, ostracized, and maintain a particular status, in fact, cases in which transgender individuals undergo full or sufficient gender transitions and integrate comfortably into society afterwards without being othered or ostracized has lead to the greatest reported instances of long term happiness, fulfillment, and emotional security. Trans people aren't some never-ending curse to perpetually get worse given the opportunity. There is a definitive start and end point, and the transition process allows an individual to move to the point at which they are most able to live comfortably and happily and integrate safely into modern society in a way that feels fulfilling. That's it. There's no inherent predation, no deeper meaning, it's just a transition process to a realistically achievable goal to achieve genuine happiness. The rest is largely overcomplicated and overblown paranoia, a manufactured panic in order to discredit something that, at its core, is actually really simple and non-threatening.

That's the best I can do to explain with what I know. If you want more information beyond that, you're going to have to look into it yourself. And if you're asking in bad faith, in order to get a rise out of me and attempt to humiliate me... well, fuck you too, I guess?

Fair enough, poor fuckers don't deserve that

I just don't want to participate

Bud, no one is making you participate. You don't have to be trans. All anyone asks is that you respect people's rights and treat them with basic decency, calling them what they want to be called (same as you would a cisgender person who changed their name, for example) and not passing judgements on their medical or health concerns (since it is, medically speaking, none of your business) or trying to restrict their right to participate in society like they're harboring some kind of disease. You don't have to understand, you don't even have to agree with their choices, just treat them as human beings and keep your opinions on their life to yourself. Because it's theirs, not yours.

Oh COME ON. This guy is actively mocking Taiwan now, too??

Damn it, Muskrat

One of the reasons I love that I'm in Germany rn. You don't get people casually joking about Nazis then laughing it off like it's nothing. It is literally against the law, and people treat that topic with actual respect.

I was uplifted for a minute and then I read the comments.

Guys, why is it so hard to just respect that people exist that you might not fully understand?

Chances are they just don't talk about it

They're just going to try to make one that's ever so slightly better, and then patent it again

And the volunteer community of content transcribers allied with the blind community, who's goal was to ultimately draw attention to the issue to improve accessibility on the reddit app. Go figure.