Trans suicides are directly liked to how they are perceived in society and that is directly linked to how we talk about them.
Fair enough, but it takes considerable license of interpretation to extrapolate someone ending their life because someone else confesses to 'feeling uncomfortable' with trans people. Which is effectively - if not literally - what your posts appear to be doing.
Kinda depends on context. It is not that a person saying their uncomfortable directly causes suicide, however it is part of the lack of acceptance that contributes to the higher rate.
I am not trans. But let's talk about something with which I am intimately familiar: race.
People who are "uncomfortable" with black people are not always filled with hate or even antipathy. But they are the who don't hire black people. They are the people who call the police on black people inappropriately, but think they are doing it rationally. They are the people that sentence black people to longer sentences than white people convicted of the same crime.
We can't always control how we instinctively feel; only how we choose subsequently to react to that feeling.
We cannot control how we feel at any given moment, no. But we have the potential to gain control. Part of conquering an addiction is admitting the addiction. Part of some people's journey to recover is to acknowledge that they will always be an addict, even if they never use again. And that is important: to understand one's frailty and propensity. If people cannot even admit they are/were transphobic, they have not come to that understanding and are more likely to retain some of the prejudice.
Avoiding the honest term points more to a failure to change than it does actual change
No, we do not have to hammer people who say they feel "uncomfortable', but neither do we have to pretend it is something other than what it is.
Eutychus, I don't mind you being right wing, it's your endless scenarios and pompous prognotications that bug me. Do you ever write in short succinct sentences?
Oh stop talking internet gibberish. You supported May's deal, and you seem to support this one. They are both hard right Brexits, which will sabotage the UK.
Oh, and by the way, of all the MPs I've seen in action when watching recent Parliamentary debates, Caroline Lucas has made by far the best impression on me, and the last vote I cast where I am (the Euro elections) was for the Green candidate.
But don't let that get in the way of your prejudices.
The Green Party (of which I am a member) is proud of her. Would that we (the country in general, not just the Greens) had more MPs of such sense, and integrity.
I didn't actually know which party she stood for until l checked. Although l was pretty sure she wasn't a Tory from where she was sitting and what she was saying.
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I am not trans. But let's talk about something with which I am intimately familiar: race.
People who are "uncomfortable" with black people are not always filled with hate or even antipathy. But they are the who don't hire black people. They are the people who call the police on black people inappropriately, but think they are doing it rationally. They are the people that sentence black people to longer sentences than white people convicted of the same crime.
Transphobia is not always hate, just as racism is not always hate.
I'm open to a description of "feeling uncomfortable" that doesn't meet the definition of transphobia. We cannot control how we feel at any given moment, no. But we have the potential to gain control. Part of conquering an addiction is admitting the addiction. Part of some people's journey to recover is to acknowledge that they will always be an addict, even if they never use again. And that is important: to understand one's frailty and propensity. If people cannot even admit they are/were transphobic, they have not come to that understanding and are more likely to retain some of the prejudice.
Avoiding the honest term points more to a failure to change than it does actual change
No, we do not have to hammer people who say they feel "uncomfortable', but neither do we have to pretend it is something other than what it is.
Oh stop talking internet gibberish. You supported May's deal, and you seem to support this one. They are both hard right Brexits, which will sabotage the UK.
If you disagree, you are allowed to scroll past.
Oh, get off your high horse.
But don't let that get in the way of your prejudices.