RE: Stop Pushing Sex On Children
LGBT people have existed at least since anyone bothered to start keeping records. You know, like 12 thousand years ago. They have been both deified and vilified at various times in various cultures.
Masculine and feminine are social constructs that have fluctuated wildly over the centuries. Is a girl who plays with monster trucks and likes MMA not a girl? Is a boy who likes makeup not a boy? Or are you just trying to validate the Stone Age social structures that protect your perceived dominance? 'Cause I played with LEGO's, not Barbie dolls, and I can put a bullet through a bullseye at 1500 yards in a cross-wind. Who the fuck do you think you are to both define someone else's sense of self and claim anything you wouldn't do is inherently wrong?
neither I actually want everyone to be happy healthy and free
Me too, but I see what appears to be an obsession with trans women among many self-proclaimed anarchists and libertarians. Typically they respond with either a free speech claim or with something to the effect of they don't care about X but don't want to pay for it. If those were true, I could totally get behind them. But the memes and comments are about the people, not the principles, and anyway there is an obvious disconnect among many of them that somehow they can demand "rights" they would deny to others.
The free speech claim is pure self-imposed victimhood status from delicate snowflakes. And if your approach was more ... diplomatic ... I totally agree that it's a slippery slope legislating what people can and cannot say. But that's not trans people. That's government. Anyway it's an evasion that is only brought up after I've called out Anarchyball (for a glaringly public example you can find 100 examples of on Farcebook) or whoever for their overt hypocrisy.
I see you post about trans women a lot. Why? Or more to the point, I don't see you post about trans men, though I can't say I've investigated enough to say for sure that you never have. Why do you care so much?
This gets into a number of tangents that I don't have time for right now, but I've been having this debate for almost 40 years and I've become exceedingly efficient at it.
I live by these words: First, do no harm. Second, take no shit.
I don't think anyone should have to pay for someone else's choices, the services they use, or even their "rights". I want that to be clear 'cause I get accused of being a leftist and a fascist, often by the same morons who don't seem to realize that would be an oxymoron. My name on this platform wasn't chosen by accident. I believe anarcho-capitalism is completely compatible with liberties other than my own, including those of women, LGBT people, and whatever other externally-defined labels we're too primitive to think-for-ourselves away from. I'm an individualist, so I'd be a rather presumptuous hypocrite to deny someone else their own individuality, no?
So even if the pedantic ignorant understanding was true that "those people" (strike 1) got their dicks "cut off" (strike 2), so? Why do you think your opinion of that matters, and should matter to them? (strike 3) - You're out.
(I mean "you" generally, not "you" personally, just so there's no chance this gets diverted onto some evasive sniveling about how I'm picking on you, nor to say that would necessarily be your personal reaction - and gawd it's exhausting having to be this specific with someone who has shown me zero reason to have a shred of respect for them.)
Because all three of those points are completely antithetical to any principle of libertarianism, anarchism, individualism, or any number of other *isms many in these circles claim as their ideologies.
Just for reference, the questions I pose are for your consideration. I know the answers, and don't need them validated. Feel free to respond, or not. It changes nothing.