What are your thoughts on transgenderism?

I'm just watching someone say that to validate someone's belief that they are a different gender than what they were born as would be like validating a schizophrenics belief that they can jump off the Empire State Building and fly. Apparently transgenderism is defined as a mental illness and has been for a very long time. Is it a mental illness? I personally think that adults should be allowed to present and live as whatever they want. But when it comes to children I have very strong feelings against allowing them to transition. Kids aren't very good decision makers and I've seen too many stories about children regretting it later, which is so sad. Oh I'll attach the video in case you're curious. I only watched the first minute or two

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SUPERVlXEN · F

It's an anti-LGBTQ hate term. Let me quote an article from GLAAD on this one:

Online Anti-LGBTQ Hate Terms Defined:
“Transgenderism”

This entry is part of the GLAAD Guide to Anti-LGBTQ Online Hate and Disinformation, an ongoing project to identify some of the most prevalent and egregious terms, tropes, and concepts that are used to harass, attack, and spread malicious misinformation about LGBTQ people on social media.

“Transgenderism”
The current, popularized usage of the term “transgenderism” arises from anti-trans extremists who seek to delegitimize and dehumanize transgender people by falsely implying that being transgender is an ideology rather than an identity.

In her March 2023 essay, “On the Right’s Call to “Eradicate Transgenderism” (It Means Exactly What You Think It Means)” journalist Parker Molloy further explains: “words like ‘transgenderism’ and ‘gender ideology’ are almost exclusively used by anti-trans activists to obscure the fact that trans people are simply people who just happen to be trans. It’s not a belief system.”

For example, the term “transgenderism” was notably weaponized in a speech by far-right commentator Michael Knowles at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he pronounced: “For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” Knowles posted versions of the speech on YouTube, as well as variations of the same rhetoric on his other social media accounts, while disingenuously asserting that his call for violence was not violent.

On social media, Knowles and other far-right media figures employ the term (along with other variations of the trope such as “gender ideology”) to disingenuously evade platforms’ hate speech and harassment policies — which prohibit speech targeting people with hate on the basis of protected characteristics such as gender identity (while speech targeting ideologies is allowed). Anti-trans figures and groups continue to promote the term online and offline as a dog whistle expressing contempt and hatred of transgender people.

Explore more via GLAAD’s Guide to Anti-LGBTQ Online Hate and Disinformation.

Conclusion
This is just one example of anti-LGBTQ online hate and disinformation. Every term and concept should be evaluated in context. For instance, LGBTQ people and allies may use hashtags with hate terms as counterspeech, or slurs such as “tranny” or “dyke” may be used self-referentially to reclaim them. This guide will be updated on an ongoing basis. Please see the latest GLAAD Social Media Safety Index report for a deeper exploration of the current social media landscape for LGBTQ people, including GLAAD’s recommendations and thought leadership in the field.

How to Report Anti-LGBTQ Online Hate Speech and Harassment
Every major social media platform has policies which prohibit hate and harassment on the basis of protected characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender identity. To learn how to report potentially violative content, check out GLAAD’s LGBTQ Digital Safety Guide, which includes basic tips on helping our community be more safe online.

About the GLAAD Social Media Safety Program
As the leading national LGBTQ media advocacy organization, GLAAD is working every day to hold tech companies and social media platforms accountable and to secure safe online spaces for LGBTQ people. The GLAAD Social Media Safety Program produces the highly-respected annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) and researches, monitors, and reports on a variety of issues facing LGBTQ social media users — with a focus on safety, privacy, and expression.

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SUPERVlXEN · F

@OogieBoogie

Enough is enough.
They dont get to redefine perfectly good words that IN FACT they made popular in the first place.

I believe they are GLAAD in your mind, or maybe it’s the “pride” movement. They didn’t redefine any word, they provided us with how the word is used [which is where the defining comes into play] in the modern media landscape. Like it or not but words get singled out and used for other purposes than they were defined initially, just like woke got another meaning nowadays. This happens more often than one would suspect, words do get weaponized in speech by far-right wing commentators.

Nowhere does it say you can’t use the word, it does provide you with insight of how the word has been “redefined” [as you call it] in the media landscape by a group of people with malicious intent.

If you don’t like it, it’s on you. GLAAD is in every way in their right to make their observations public to assist those of us that care.

Look how I managed to reply to you without using any profanity or ridiculing of any group of people!

Now go in peace and take care. I’m out of this thread and was in the first place considering not even adding this comment but decided anyway coz the way words change their original meaning more than one would suspect. Bye!

OogieBoogie · F

@SUPERVlXEN Oh you didn't use any profanity, that's true, and you know i swear. Its culturally in the lexicon of how i speak about, well, bloody everything😂

Your sarcasm was beautifully pointed and quite personal though.

I have a trans family member.

I spoke to them about this and got their perspective on it.
In fact we all got involved and there was quite a discussion.
Ultimately they reiterated that context is everything, and that just because its used by haters, doesnt make it a hate term.

GLAAD do get to publicise whatever they want. Its a free media.
Just as do you, and i.

The thing is ...its the ethos behind what they publish though.
Choosing to decide particular words are defamatory, only because narrow minded pricks used them that way ....is only giving ugly power to the haters....and the word.
And spreading that opinion - only spreads that hate power further.

Its giving in.
Its giving up a word that they once owned ....with pride.

Why let the haters win ?

People fought hard for the freedoms they have won. I refuse to give up anything all coz a bunch of haters want to control the narrative, and some online site says so.