When it comes to the topic of trans people, this is how I personally feel about this topic.
Trans people should be allowed to live the lives they want and wear what they want. That being said, clothing is not the same as medically transitioning and I think people should go to therapy and address their history before they make the decision to transition. Do I think it should be mandatory to do therapy first? No. Societally encouraged? Absolutely. It's not a decision to be taken lightly, ESPECIALLY with kids.
On bathrooms, I really don't care about trans people using their preferred bathrooms and I don't support policing what bathrooms people go into. With locker rooms, I can understand the concern with that. Honestly, I think having more gender neutral bathrooms would be good for this issue.
With sports, this one's a more complicated issue. There are different studies on the advantages and disadvantages trans people have over cis people. Some show that in strength sports, trans women maintain physical advantages even after HRT. It's more balanced with endurance sports. I don't think the answer is to simply let them all compete and I don't think the answer is to categorize by birth sex. Idk exactly what the answer to this is, but having more coed sports (alongside the men's and women's categories) could help with this issue.
There are some trans people who are toxic and will look for an opportunity to jump on anyone who slightly disagrees with them. On the sports issue, locker rooms, gender affirming care for minors, the "trans genocide" topic, and also the death threats that some trans people send. I think a lot of this stems from trauma they've faced in their lives and the fact that they've had death threats sent to them a lot, so they develop that reactive response because of the threats they've received. Death threats are horrible regardless of who's sending them and it's not healthy to respond like this. They need to get therapy and potentially even good medication in order to build distress tolerance.
Those are my current thoughts I have surrounding trans issues.
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When it comes to the topic of trans people, this is how I personally feel about this topic.
Trans people should be allowed to live the lives they want and wear what they want. That being said, clothing is not the same as medically transitioning and I think people should go to therapy and address their history before they make the decision to transition. Do I think it should be mandatory to do therapy first? No. Societally encouraged? Absolutely. It's not a decision to be taken lightly, ESPECIALLY with kids.
On bathrooms, I really don't care about trans people using their preferred bathrooms and I don't support policing what bathrooms people go into. With locker rooms, I can understand the concern with that. Honestly, I think having more gender neutral bathrooms would be good for this issue.
With sports, this one's a more complicated issue. There are different studies on the advantages and disadvantages trans people have over cis people. Some show that in strength sports, trans women maintain physical advantages even after HRT. It's more balanced with endurance sports. I don't think the answer is to simply let them all compete and I don't think the answer is to categorize by birth sex. Idk exactly what the answer to this is, but having more coed sports (alongside the men's and women's categories) could help with this issue.
There are some trans people who are toxic and will look for an opportunity to jump on anyone who slightly disagrees with them. On the sports issue, locker rooms, gender affirming care for minors, the "trans genocide" topic, and also the death threats that some trans people send. I think a lot of this stems from trauma they've faced in their lives and the fact that they've had death threats sent to them a lot, so they develop that reactive response because of the threats they've received. Death threats are horrible regardless of who's sending them and it's not healthy to respond like this. They need to get therapy and potentially even good medication in order to build distress tolerance.
Those are my current thoughts I have surrounding trans issues.
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