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Ignore the actual topic (bots). It's inflammatory language like "feminism/trans rights" that gets people with no understanding of social issues riled up. This particular instance suggests feminists do not stand for trans rights and trans people/allies are not feminists.
It's similar to framing things as women vs trans, or calling trans women men.
To a lay person, of course they are going to say "no way" if you ask them should men be allowed in women's spaces. Follow that up with "TRAs want men in womens spaces" and boom. Someone entering...
To a lay person, of course they are going to say "no way" if you ask them should men be allowed in women's spaces. Follow that up with "TRAs want men in womens spaces" and boom. Someone entering...
...super nuanced discourse with a terrible misunderstanding of what trans people want, what we currently have, and how what we want (law reform) will/will not affect non-trans people.
Case in point:
The other day I was asked if a 16yo old male should be allowed to play on...
Case in point:
The other day I was asked if a 16yo old male should be allowed to play on...
...an U16s girls rugby team. Simple enough, right? If you're not discussing trans people, the answer is, of course, no. It is assumed the asker means a cis male.
Questions like that when discussing trans people and how we live our lives distort reality. That "16yo male" could...
Questions like that when discussing trans people and how we live our lives distort reality. That "16yo male" could...
...be
A cis man/boy
A trans girl/woman
A non-binary person.
If, as it continues, the asker wants to posit the "16yo male" is a danger to the 16yo female players, again, that is fairly simple if you assume they mean a cis male. At 16, most have begun puberty, any cis boy...
A cis man/boy
A trans girl/woman
A non-binary person.
If, as it continues, the asker wants to posit the "16yo male" is a danger to the 16yo female players, again, that is fairly simple if you assume they mean a cis male. At 16, most have begun puberty, any cis boy...
...who plays rugby will be using his testosterone to it's full potential, putting his body through tough workouts etc. Now, a trans girl or non-binary person may be doing the same, but what if they don't have the effects of a typical male puberty? What if they're on puberty...
...blockers? What if they take oestrogen? It's too complicated to reduce trans people down to their cis agab equivalents.
My point:
Inflammatory language looks benign. It's not. "Feminism/trans rights" insidiously suggests to the lay person that trans people are not compatible
My point:
Inflammatory language looks benign. It's not. "Feminism/trans rights" insidiously suggests to the lay person that trans people are not compatible
...with cis women and their rights. How can such language be challenged so that lay people are exposed to the whole picture rather than focused in on one specific point that they will then cling on to?
