this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
89 points (100.0% liked)

Entertainment

4594 readers
2 users here now

Movies, television and Broadway.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Carlos Santana, Alice Cooper, Róisín Murphy, Dave Chappelle, J.K. Rowling, Harry Jowsey, Bette Midler, Macy Gray, Kevin Hart, John Cleese

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they need to accept that people don’t understand even the most basic principles of what makes someone trans.

I remember talking to someone complaining about an article supportive of underage people transitioning, and the main thing he was outraged about was based on, he didn't understand that people have different concepts for gender and sex, and so he honestly thought that the article must be talking about bottom surgery and that was the only thing the words it was using could mean. It wasn't just disingenuous rhetoric, he actually misunderstood and accepted being corrected on that.

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

he didn’t understand that people have different concepts for gender and sex

Traditionally these words are/were used interchangeably and getting people to re-learn words is difficult, but an important part of getting people to accept trans people.