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BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

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Jaxyon posted:

also it's important to note that a lot of people aren't blatant obvious bigots, they're bigots who don't think of themselves as bigots

hence: "I support transgender people i just don't think you should be grooming children for pedophilia and forcing operations on schoolkids and dominating every single sport"

it's basically "I'm not a racist but I wish black people wouldn't be so fleet of foot and criminal".

Yep. And when it's pointed out that trans folk aren't grooming anyone, nor forcing operations on anyone, and are just as good/bad at sport as everyone else, the response is usually "Maybe, but they could start doing any and all of those things. Better crush their rights preemptively just in case."

I would also add, particularly on the "trans in sport" thing, that I would argue that your average normal person cares a great deal more about the football team they barrack for than they do about the gender of the person next to them in the line at the supermarket. So your right wing transphobic culture warriors used that as a way to try and turn mostly apathetic/supportive people into transphobes by going "Hey, you know thatthing you care about? Football. Well the evil transes are ruining it! So if you care about football, you must hate them."

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