Sigh. I'm done with /r/rightwinglgbt, its just too ignorant and hateful to hang around in anymore. I can only be exposed to so much bullshit before it starts to bring me down.
@shebang What about it is hateful?
@alex That particular sub has a lot of people -- with broad support -- that transsexual people are just delusional, that there isn't an underlying medical basis, or if there is, then conversion therapy is the only rational solution. Most of them seem to think that trans people should be ejected from the LGB"T" community (ie, just LGB -- so DropTheT or LGB Alliance style).
They refuse to see the difference between some college kid pretending to be trans for SJW victim points and someone who is gender dysphoric. You can pull up on the scientific research on the topic you like, no one cares. Honestly they just hate trans people there, and I'm sick of the negativity. They'll quote a handful of debunked and outdated studies and ignore the more recent refutations of them. Its just a bunch of shit there.
@alex It sticks in my craw that they support the idea that being gender dysphoric can be cured with therapy (when its well known it can't) but get uppity when you point out that there is no difference between what they are saying and gay conversation therapy.
These people aren't against things like bigotism, they are only against it being applied to them. Given a chance to be the one wearing the boot, they do so delightedly.
@shebang @alex The same sort of thing happens with countless issues, unfortunately. So many people are only against an injustice or oppression when they're the ones being harmed by it. Then, when it's someone else, they don't care, or might even try to make it worse. "When my group or myself is harmed by something, that's bad, but when an individual or a group I don't like is harmed, that's great! Go ahead, keep harming them, I'll even help you!" seems to be an extremely common thought process. They'll put up a mask and act like they're against oppression and against bigotry, then turn around and do exactly what they were just complaining about to someone else, then turn again and go back to complaining about the same thing they just did to someone else being done to them.
