Motivation and Politics?

[24SecondsTillDawn]

Because of everything going on in politics right now I have lost almost all motivation to keep going to school and work, everything seems so pointless if its just going to be roadblock after roadblock as a woman part of the lgbtq+ in America. I cant go outside without fearing for my safety or afraid of being ridiculed for expressing myself. I was wondering if anyone else has felt this way lately?

 

[LostLily]

I feel this way too. Him getting elected makes me lose a lot of faith in humanity and scared for the future

 

[shadowsandink]

Because of everything going on in politics right now I have lost almost all motivation to keep going to school and work, everything seems so pointless if its just going to be roadblock after roadblock as a woman part of the lgbtq+ in America. I cant go outside without fearing for my safety or afraid of being ridiculed for expressing myself. I was wondering if anyone else has felt this way lately?

I feel the same. I have plans to do more after work, but now this will overturn all my legal ID, my passport, etc, just because people hate LGBTQs. I lost motivation to do more than work.... and I'm now struggling to even care about work. I lost faith in America. ;/

 

[Aloneandinpain]

I really don't see much issue here. Trump certainly isn't anti gay nor anti lesbian. He's just more into science/reality and thus doesn't believe in all the multiple gender insanity nor weird anti-science nonsense that pretends men can transform into women (or vice-cersa). Being pro-science and pro-biology can only be a good thing.

In top of all this, Trump is eliminating all the extremist discrimination of DEI. So under him the country should instantly be much fairer for everyone.

 

[Dot]

I really don't see much issue here. Trump certainly isn't anti gay nor anti lesbian. He's just more into science/reality and thus doesn't believe in all the multiple gender insanity nor weird anti-science nonsense that pretends men can transform into women (or vice-cersa). Being pro-science and pro-biology can only be a good thing.

In top of all this, Trump is eliminating all the extremist discrimination of DEI. So under him the country should instantly be much fairer for everyone.

Scince wll also tll u tht gendr dysphria = legitm8 conditn fr whch thre r scientfclly backd gendr affirmng treatmnts

Th/ excutve ordr dnies all of tht

Trmp ds nt gve 2 sh*ts abt scince or histry -- h/ = only pandrng t/ hs fn-bse

Humn rghts fr transgndr ppl r b-ing rolld bck t/ thngs r nt instntly fair fr 'evry1'

 

[Aloneandinpain]

Scince wll also tll u tht gendr dysphria = legitm8 conditn fr whch thre r scientfclly backd gendr affirmng treatmnts

Th/ excutve ordr dnies all of tht

Trmp ds nt gve 2 sh*ts abt scince or histry -- h/ = only pandrng t/ hs fn-bse

Humn rghts fr transgndr ppl r b-ing rolld bck t/ thngs r nt instntly fair fr 'evry1'

Gender dysphorua is only a legitimate condition scientifically in the sense that it's a mental illness. We don't affirm anorexia nor affirm any other mental illnesses

 

[Dot]

Gender dysphorua is only a legitimate condition scientifically in the sense that it's a mental illness. We don't affirm anorexia nor affirm any other mental illnesses

Xcept gendr dysphria ws unclassfid as mentl illnss frm WHO in 2019 & th/ vst majrty of th/ medcl commnty dd nt recgnse GD as a mentl illnss eithr -- am sre tht @RainAndSadness cn provde th/ appropr8 evdnce of tht bt agn / dsppointng tht sh/ shld hve 2

Kp in mnd tht homsexulty usd 2 b recgnisd as 'mentl illnss' also whch agn = nt th/ cse

D/ slf thnk tht thre r sme ppl wh/ r incrrctly diagnosd wth GD - yh tbh - bt tht = whre propr diagnostcs = importnt rathr thn d-nying tht th/ rst of th/ ppl wth GD xist @ all

Ur answrs r totlly ideolgcl & r basd on opinns whch r b-ing usd t/ rll bck rghts of an entre commnty - mny of whm r sasu usrs & sch commnts trivlise thr whle xistnce

Trmp hs lkely only gne aftr thm bcse Eln Msk cnnt hndle havng a transgndr persn in hs own famly

Sasu = sfe plce fr trnsgendr ppl -- thy d/ nt cme t/ sasu t/ hve thr xistnce deb8td b/ ppl wh/ hve an obvs politcl & ideolgcl bias

Also slf hve jst lernd tht th/ EO tht Trmp signd jst defind all livng Amercns as femle - bcse agn thy hve 0 obvs undrstndng of th/ scince b-hnd thr ideolgcl polcies

Trump's Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female

If you legislate with scientific words, you should know the science.

www.iflscience.com

 

[J&L383]

I feel this way too. Him getting elected makes me lose a lot of faith in humanity and scared for the future

Ugh. Same here, I need a four year vacation on some deserted island. (And hope by then humanity has found some sanity).

 

[RainAndSadness]

Gender dysphorua is only a legitimate condition scientifically in the sense that it's a mental illness. We don't affirm anorexia nor affirm any other mental illnesses

Gender dysphoria is a medical condition, correct - and affirmation is the most effective and best treatment for said condition, therefore your comparison to anorexia does not hold up. It's an entirely different condition coming from a mismatch between body and mind. Bringing those closer together via transition is what helps elevate gender dysphoria, pretty much all studies on that subject confirm this and it's the medical consensus amongst pretty much all medical organizations.

Quoting from a previous post in another thread because it already contains the recipes:

Here is a list of organisations in support of trans care - including trans care for minors, with links to explicit statements.

Spoiler: ressources

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Dermatology
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Nursing
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Academy of Physician Assistants
• American College Health Association
• American College of Nurse-Midwives
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• American College of Physicians
• American Counseling Association
• American Heart Association
• American Medical Association
• American Medical Student Association
• American Nurses Association
• American Osteopathic Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Psychological Association
• American Public Health Association
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Endocrine Society
• Federation of Pediatric Organizations
• GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality
• National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Commission on Correctional Health Care
• Pediatric Endocrine Society
• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
• World Medical Association
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Source:

Medical Organization Statements on Transgender Health Care - Trans Health Project

Links to 20+ medical organization statements in support of the medical necessity of transgender-related health care and its coverage under health insurance plans.

transhealthproject.org

[...]here are some ressources demonstrating that trans care improves mental health outcomes [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and the detransition rate is ususally around 1-2% [9] [10] [11][12] and not all of these people detransition due to regret, a lot of them do that because of social pressure, exclusion from friends and family, financial issues and lack of access to health care.

Hope this helps.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

He's just more into science/reality and thus doesn't believe in all the multiple gender insanity nor weird anti-science nonsense that pretends men can transform into women (or vice-cersa). Being pro-science and pro-biology can only be a good thing.

1. No, Trump isn't into "science/reality". If that were the case then the whole entire COVID-19 nonsense he was spewing around would not have happened. If anything, he is not above spreading misinformation to the public even when he knows better.

In an interview with Woodward on 7 February 2020, Trump said he knew that COVID-19 was more lethal than the flu and that it spread through the air. "This is deadly stuff," he said. But on 9 March, he tweeted that the "common flu" was worse than COVID-19, while economic advisor Larry Kudlow and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway assured the public that the virus was contained. On 19 March, Trump told Woodward that he did not want to level with the American people about the danger of the virus. "I wanted to always play it down," he said, "I still like playing it down." Playing it down meant lying about the fact that he knew the country was in grave danger.

2. Gender is a social construct. This is a view that many in academia hold and denying this is going against reality.

Gender is a social and structural variable that encompasses multiple domains, each of which influences health: gender identity and expression, gender roles and norms, gendered power relations, and gender equality and equity.

https://academic.oup.com/tbm/article/14/1/13/7130278

While many cultures view gender as a binary, some cultures, both past and present, view it differently. Take the Hijra or the Sekrata, for example. Even if we were to make the whole "gender=sex" argument, the whole gender binary thing would still fall apart since the many scientists view sex as bimodal rather than as binary. In reality, the genetics behind sex are actually extremely complex leading to many pushing against the idea of viewing sex in a dichotomous manner due to it being too simplistic. Even a professor at my university for my first year biology course talked about it being better to view sex as bimodal/as a spectrum rather than to view it as a binary. Going by this logic, viewing gender as binary would still not make any sense.

3. Being pro-science and pro-biology means actually understanding that most things in biology are incredibly complex and that not everything is 100% determined by biology and that we can still be influenced by different aspects of our environment and culture (nature and nurture). Humans like to categorize things because it makes shit easier for us to understand but the way how we may categorize things can be arbitrary and can differ from culture to culture. Viewing gender as a binary is incredibly restrictive and is largely based in culture rather than in science. Even if we were to view gender as biological it still can't really be viewed as a binary since many scientists don't even view sex as a binary. At bare minimum, there would still end up being a huge debate over whether or not it is a spectrum or not.

I don't get why people expressing their gender in ways that don't fit the binary is a bad thing. I think that being able to express yourself in a manner that makes you comfortable is perfectly fine so long as you aren't hurting anybody. Humans are weird, nature is weird. We are complicated being so it's only natural that some may find the gender binary to be too restricted. If having more than two genders allows others to feel more free and less dysphoric and achieve gender euphoria then I don't see what the big deal is. I think that diversity in gender expression is a wonderful thing.

 

[untothedepths]

grift city usa. thats all this worthless country is good for. shitty people.

 

[The_Hunter]

Am quite late to the party, but there were some posts here that were just too good not to comment on ;)

3. Being pro-science and pro-biology means actually understanding that most things in biology are incredibly complex and that not everything is 100% determined by biology and that we can still be influenced by different aspects of our environment and culture (nature and nurture).

Completely agree. A an unfettering & insensitive biological determinism is ignorance, not science. Science is to distinguish; not to confuse.

Humans like to categorize things because it makes shit easier for us to understand but the way how we may categorize things can be arbitrary and can differ from culture to culture. Viewing gender as a binary is incredibly restrictive and is largely based in culture rather than in science. Even if we were to view gender as biological it still can't really be viewed as a binary since many scientists don't even view sex as a binary. At bare minimum, there would still end up being a huge debate over whether or not it is a spectrum or not.

Just wanted to comment on how eloquently packed this paragraph is. You truly have worded this in a remarkably compact manner; I do thank you for your well-put words.

I don't get why people expressing their gender in ways that don't fit the binary is a bad thing. I think that being able to express yourself in a manner that makes you comfortable is perfectly fine so long as you aren't hurting anybody. Humans are weird, nature is weird. We are complicated being so it's only natural that some may find the gender binary to be too restricted. If having more than two genders allows others to feel more free and less dysphoric and achieve gender euphoria then I don't see what the big deal is. I think that diversity in gender expression is a wonderful thing.

"Humans are weird, nature is weird"... well said.