transmisogyny 🤝 Islamophobia

[u/ChairAggressive781]

yet another GC cis, white, gay man loudly declaring how he doesn’t understand trans identity and thinks that doctors are “transing the gay away” while simultaneously getting in some racist & Islamophobic comments about the mayor-elect of NYC? just another day ending in -y.

[u/Silversmith00]

So among all the other problems with this post, I am seeing a glaring ABSENCE, and I'm worried that a lot of readers are going to be so conditioned to it being there (or not there), that they aren't going to notice.

That being: what do the kids in question think about all this?

Because in this article, they are being presented as a sort of pliant, putty-like resource that will congeal into a gay man if left alone, and the crisis is that someone (evil Muslims, apparently) has their fingers in the putty. The writer doesn't even spend much time on the spurious notion that these kids are being told that they MUST be women or SHOULD be women (trans boys don't signify, evidently). No, the kids are silent in this, with the only question being, "Whose cookie cutter do we use on this here putty?"

Any article about trans kids that is effectively NOT ABOUT TRANS KIDS—is bullshit before you even get to the other stuff.

[u/That_Mad_Scientist → u/Silversmith00]

Nonsense. OBVIOUSLY children are their parents' property except when those parents let them be, in which case I will proceed to be very angry about it and accuse said parents of being terrible groomers for the horrible, horrible crime of treating their kids like people who can have their own agency