The guy who shot Charlie Kirk possibly had a trans girlfriend, and that’s all we heard about for weeks. The fact that the school shooter in Canada last week was trans is all half the media is talking about.
If the media is going to have a meltdown any time a trans person is adjacent to something bad, we can celebrate something like this.
I’m kinda surprised that the Zizians didn’t get more news coverage to be honest. You’d think they’d be obsessed with a tech-based death cult where half the leadership also happen to be trans
I totally understand where you’re coming from. I wish we could live in a world where it didnt matter, but unfortunately in a world with so much anti trans propaganda we need headlines that showcase trans people doing good things to counter that.
Did you miss the part where trans people have been vilified for years, not least by the current US government? It is absolutely relevant to highlight trans people that disprove their propaganda narratives.
look, I get it. but you have to understand something.
in a world where everything tells you that you’re not good enough, or that you don’t matter. having someone or something as a beacon of hope goes a long way.
Imagine being a 10 year old trans kid and feeling like everyone hates you and then hearing about this story. what do you think that 10 year old kid is going to feel?
Trans issues and stories do garner an inordinate amount of traction on Lemmy. I, perhaps naïvely, thought the aim of the game was to normalise society so that race, gender and sexuality are irrelevant. The configuration of other people’s genitals and where they want to put them is of zero interest to me, personally, but I suspect I’m in a minority.
You’re missing the issue, unfortunately. What you say is technically correct, but as long as a minority id actively persecuted they have to be actively shown to be normal and nice people to, well, normalize their existence. And right now the evil people are winning, so it’s even more important to mention it. We’re as far away from trans being normalized like left-handedness as it gets.
I see why this might even annoys some, but it’s not trans people who want to be in this situation. We (yes, hello 👋) just want to fucking live our lifes in peace and happiness, without the constant (additional) fighting and fear for our life.
About Lemmy… well, it’s the current alternative to corporate media. It’s just natural that those who’re vilified and cast’ out are the first to arrive here, as well as their allies. 😉
I’m curious how you would feel about a news platform that doesn’t use gender as a lens of viewing things through at all. Completely de-gender everything using gender neutral language.
Something like “Brave bystander rescue drowning baby while the parent struggles to respond”, applied to everything.
As of now it feels like an arms race. The bad actors highlight gender/sexuality disproportionately for every little negative thing they can find and the good guys respond by highlighting the actual insane amount of good things these groups do.
We’re way too early for that kind of optimism. Race, gender, sexuality, all that and more can’t be irrelevant until all are considered equitably by the law and treated equally by society. Pretending things are fine before they’re actually fine doesn’t help.
Exactly, this is the viewpoint that I’m coming from – they were a good human and no labels are needed to qualify that. The comments from people in the US have made me aware of the need to counter anti-trans propaganda over there though. Labelling is unfair if only one side does it
I feel like mentioning they were trans isn’t really relevant here. It annoys me when they do this
The guy who shot Charlie Kirk possibly had a trans girlfriend, and that’s all we heard about for weeks. The fact that the school shooter in Canada last week was trans is all half the media is talking about.
If the media is going to have a meltdown any time a trans person is adjacent to something bad, we can celebrate something like this.
that also annoyed me
(tangentially: 50.5 years ago, Oliver Sipple had saved President Ford by tackling his assassin Sara Jane Moore. He was promptly outed as gay.)
I’m kinda surprised that the Zizians didn’t get more news coverage to be honest. You’d think they’d be obsessed with a tech-based death cult where half the leadership also happen to be trans
I’m glad they did… Trans peeple are being villainized, and this counters that.
It would make no sense in a society that was healthy, but here we are…
Yeah, when I picture a society where a minority is being labelled and dehumanized then it makes full sense
You don’t need to picture it, it’s right now.
I totally understand where you’re coming from. I wish we could live in a world where it didnt matter, but unfortunately in a world with so much anti trans propaganda we need headlines that showcase trans people doing good things to counter that.
Did you miss the part where trans people have been vilified for years, not least by the current US government? It is absolutely relevant to highlight trans people that disprove their propaganda narratives.
look, I get it. but you have to understand something.
in a world where everything tells you that you’re not good enough, or that you don’t matter. having someone or something as a beacon of hope goes a long way.
Imagine being a 10 year old trans kid and feeling like everyone hates you and then hearing about this story. what do you think that 10 year old kid is going to feel?
that is why labels on this article matter.
Trans issues and stories do garner an inordinate amount of traction on Lemmy. I, perhaps naïvely, thought the aim of the game was to normalise society so that race, gender and sexuality are irrelevant. The configuration of other people’s genitals and where they want to put them is of zero interest to me, personally, but I suspect I’m in a minority.
You’re missing the issue, unfortunately. What you say is technically correct, but as long as a minority id actively persecuted they have to be actively shown to be normal and nice people to, well, normalize their existence. And right now the evil people are winning, so it’s even more important to mention it. We’re as far away from trans being normalized like left-handedness as it gets.
I see why this might even annoys some, but it’s not trans people who want to be in this situation. We (yes, hello 👋) just want to fucking live our lifes in peace and happiness, without the constant (additional) fighting and fear for our life.
About Lemmy… well, it’s the current alternative to corporate media. It’s just natural that those who’re vilified and cast’ out are the first to arrive here, as well as their allies. 😉
I’m curious how you would feel about a news platform that doesn’t use gender as a lens of viewing things through at all. Completely de-gender everything using gender neutral language.
Something like “Brave bystander rescue drowning baby while the parent struggles to respond”, applied to everything.
As of now it feels like an arms race. The bad actors highlight gender/sexuality disproportionately for every little negative thing they can find and the good guys respond by highlighting the actual insane amount of good things these groups do.
We’re way too early for that kind of optimism. Race, gender, sexuality, all that and more can’t be irrelevant until all are considered equitably by the law and treated equally by society. Pretending things are fine before they’re actually fine doesn’t help.
Exactly, this is the viewpoint that I’m coming from – they were a good human and no labels are needed to qualify that. The comments from people in the US have made me aware of the need to counter anti-trans propaganda over there though. Labelling is unfair if only one side does it
Agree. Why do we need labels?