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RE: 2016 Transgender Day of Remembrance
The world still needs to grow in terms of mentality. People are still 'stuck' in old times and are afraid to let go and hence the fear and the anger and the violence.
I'm absolutely on the same page with you there. Overall I end up seeing many of the 'negative LGBT' arguments really being based in either fear, hate and/or ignorance. Often I see have to say "I'm sorry this makes you uncomfortable, but that doesn't give any right of discriminating or prevention of equality."
Overall we are moving in the right direction (how much varies from region to region,) but we will get there. The passing of same-sex marriage act in the US Supreme Court was a huge step in the right direction here as people become more educated on the actual concepts and the impacts. So I don't want to just paint a negative picture on this. It took 30 years from the start of the Gay awareness campaigns to get us here in the US, time is definitely our ally on this one.
Exactly! People automatically hate what they don't understand! It's like their default setting! But you are right, times are changing. In a 100 years, these problems will cease to exist.
Spot on!
It's made me think of the scifi idea that if the norm was to 'morph' bodies (race, gender, etc.) it'd pretty much end (ideally) such prejudices since they'd live for periods as the various groups.