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2026-07-09 03:02:26 UTC

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Who are “The People”?

2026-01-02 21:25:16 UTC

Contrary to popular misconception, critics of the transgender movement do not disagree that trans people have "rights" as a monolith. They're talking about whether trans people have specific rights including:
- not being misgendered
- tax-payer funded gender surgery/hormones
- (specifically children) to get surgery at all without their parents consent (or with)
I don't definitely disagree with all of the above, but it gives you a sense of the reasonable criticism people can have with the concept of "trans rights" as "allies" actually mean it (not as the basic human rights they claim to mean).
I do definitely disagree with the right to not be misgendered, as that goes against the right to free speech, which I value a lot.
Trans rights I definitely agree with:
- having surgery with their own money as an adult
- social transition (excluding the bit where they force other people to play along calling them by their preferred pronouns using laws such as the German self-identity law)
- freedom from violence from bigots
Human rights are not just a stand-in for "things I like". They actually mean something. Namely, government force applied to protect a property of a human being or group thereof (legal right), or a moral obligation on someone to do or not do something to/for someone (moral right).
A legal right to not be misgendered means that the government passes laws prohibiting misgendering trans people. Think about that.

2025-09-24 15:14:14 UTC

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>If you think citizens should be able to [support violence and terrorism] [...], I respect that take, but I do think violence is the line of what should be tolerated.
I agree with you. The First Amendment (at least according to #FIRE's podcast So To Speak, which I have listened to quite a few episodes of) does allow that, however. When the KKK were around, the courts allowed them to promote violence against black people; and because of that black nationalists and supremacists were allowed to say violent things about white people in turn. IIRC.
>I am not particularly concerned about repercussions against people who are supporting violence and terrorism.
Was Rümeysa Öztürk supporrting violence and terrorism?
As far as I'm aware she wrote a perfectly peaceful anti-Israel article in her university newspaper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk

2025-07-06 20:13:02 UTC

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@npub153l…caex So, where's the evidence that this is going to happen?