Do I hate trans people?
The polls are over! The results are quite interesting!
People generally answered the last two polls correctly: yes, I am #gendercritical, and no, I don't hate trans people.
What I did find interesting was the vast discrepancy, while the public generally said that I'm #gendercritical, nobody called me a #TERF. 🤔
I wonder why that is? What makes one a #TERF then, if not being #gendercritical?
@realcaseyrollins TERFS by definition hate trans people. Gendercritical is more of a loose term that can covered a wide range of opinions from basically TERFS to merely “there are 2 genders”.
@shebang @realcaseyrollins gender critical is just a fancy term for transphobia
@tuxcrafting @shebang@pleroma.freespeech.hoso am I transphobic? I thought that was a term supposed to be reserved for people who hate or fear trans people, specifically.
@realcaseyrollins @tuxcrafting Well. I donno where other people lay, but I only acknowledge 2 genders, and I think that trans people are only trans if they have gender dysphoria and specifically the brain condition that causes G/D. Being trans is a medical condition, its detectable with brain scans these days even. There is more evidence that people don’t choose to be trans than there is that people don’t choose to be gay at this point.
I’m pretty firm on this, if you don’t have G/D then you aren’t trans, you are probably Gender non-conforming, or maybe just a gender cosplayer having a fun time appropriating a pretty serious and unpleasant medical condition.
But nowhere in the studies have there been examples of 72 genders or really anything outside of that. That said, AFAIK that hasn’t been much in the way of studies about the brains of Non-binaries — so there is no real evidence there, but there is no real research there. I guess it seems plausible that if problems during development people can end up with the brain being gendered incorrectly, that some people might end up “in the middle” somewhere though.
At least some of that would fall under gender critical from what I understand of it.
@icedquinn @tuxcrafting @shebang IDK my mom does lol
But then, she's...my mom...😜
I mean the #DevsFX character Lyndon is played by a girl and it didn't bother me too much (although I was pretty surprised when I found that out when watching the next to last episode lol).
) i pretty much agree with all of you. i tend to see it as there are two genders but there's a hormonal gradient between the two. which is not the same thing as 40 genders. and it's not the "2 genders = anti-trans" dog whistle.TERFs are jerks although i kind of get part of the message now that we're seeing more men going on HRT just to cheat at sports and get easier wins.
@icedquinn @tuxcrafting @shebang I feel like this makes more sense in the cartoon space, where young boy characters are either voiced by boys and changed every couple of years (because puberty) or they're voiced by women.
@realcaseyrollins @tuxcrafting @shebang
At face value, they definitely are. I play a male on the show, who’s a tech genius, so that’s very different from who I am. But there are a lot of parallels that I found, during the filming process, of just a young person who has put everything into career.
well that explains that. production has an established history of using women to play boys. it’s the only way they can get the neoteny without actually using young boys.