So no one thinks I'm a troll, I completely support trans people doing whatever the fuck they want with their bodies. And I don't mind seeing trans stuff. But with that said, I feel like the hundreds and hundreds of posts I see about trans people is not helping. Going off like this site and a few others I browse you'd think trans people are like 40% of people instead of more like 2%.

I feel like constantly putting them in the spotlight, even to say you support them is just contributing to this "trans awareness burnout" I hear about in a lot of my non-leftist conversations. I mean i almost never see posts saying stuff like "I support indigenous Americans/homeless people/etc". And not because we don't, but because it's so obvious we don't feel the need to talk about it. Shouldn't trans people be the same way?

Anywho I'd love to hear thoughts, change my mind or kneel to my clearly superior intellect and dialectical understanding. :kubrick-stare:

  • Eris235 [undecided]
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    1 year ago

    Going off like this site and a few others I browse you’d think trans people are like 40% of people instead of more like 2%.

    While it may not be 40%, the trans population of niche leftist web-forums will be higher than 2%.

    Trans people are more online, for a lot of reasons. Introversion due to social stigma or dysphoria (consciously or unconsciously) from a young age, higher rates of autism (which has its own pile of reasons for autistic people of all sorts to be 'more online'), and just, being a minority and wanting to connect with 'people like you' in a way that physical geography makes difficult. Trans people are both pushed out of 'normal spaces', and drawn towards 'niche spaces' for these reasons. Obviously, a generalization that won't apply to everyone, but it'll skew the statistics.

    On top of that, trans people are much more likely to be leftist. Again, partially from being 'drawn towards' leftism for a variety of reasons, but also being 'pushed out of' the right and center.

    So it really shouldn't be a surprise that niche online left spaces have a large trans contingent.

    And, of course, while much of the 'culture war' around trans issues are right wing loser whinging online, there's very real threats, political and personal, to being a trans person specifically. And, lots of online spaces, "leftist" ones included, can attract transphobes, and being loud about "I love my trans comrades!!!!!" not only affirms trans users that this is a space that isn't afraid to kick out shitheels, it also honeypots shitheels into 'debating' if loving trans comrades is 'valid' (letting mods promptly kick them).