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In reply to the discussion: J.K. Rowling, B.Weiss & N. Chomsky Among Dozens Sign Open Letter Calling for End to Cancel Culture [View all]Sophia_Of_PlanetX
(73 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 7, 2020, 09:33 PM - Edit history (5)
1 - Is there any evidence for those age stats for MTF and FTMs?
2 - Thats great, but her speech was just a story about her child. I really think this is a far cry from telling parents that playing with Barbies or monster trucks makes your kid trans. I think her point was that this was how she knew her child might be trans.
Oh my god that second link was a cess pool, though. One of the posts is a made up story called A TIM at work is ruining my life. That crap looks like Facebook Nazi pages that are totally legitimate tales by concerned citizens, but all of the stories are about Jews.
3 - Im more interested in how many schools at the moment have this issue? How many teams have trans women on them where the trans women dont even qualify / are easily beaten by the other girls?
Edit: For the tennis anecdote, this isnt real evidence. Its just an anecdote for a situation that may have had other causes. In my opinion, MTF women do have a biological advantage over cis women. However, Im not sure how pronounced the advantage is, and I could even be wrong. Also, one trans woman is going to be so different from the next that we cant really treat a single anecdote as evidence.
4 - There are no studies about suicide on trans people who dont transition either. The reason for this is because this would be impossible to study. We cannot find trans people who dont self-report being trans.
5 - Those detrans stories are sad, but also not the norm (or close to it). Most transgender people do not detransition. I can find those stats if you want - I believe it was around 2% or something like that, and of those 2%, their reason for transitioning was mostly societal / due to oppression rather than not being trans.
6 - Hormone treatments do carry risks. However, the risk of not treating transgender people greatly overshadows the risks of HRT. Theres a small risk of blood clots or strokes vs an extremely high risk of suicide.
7 - Just like some scientists are starting to speak out against climate change? You could pick any theory and find some scientist somewhere who agrees with it. The overwhelming consensus is still with transgender people.
8 - And I bet she has lots of black friends too!
9 - Fair enough. Ive only heard that term used disparagingly by gender critical feminists, but I could be wrong. Also, for the person that attacked J.K. Rowling, Im sure he agrees with elements of her essay if hes a transphobe, as her essay was also disparaging towards trans people and contained the same garbage we all hear here in the US.