J. K. Rowling is cancelled because she is a T.E.R.F [ADMIN WARNING IN POST #1]

LLMMLL wrote: »

Trans females were always female

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

The irony of this entire debate is that the vast majority of people have never and would never have had an opinion or problem with the whole transgender issue at all if radical SJWs hadn't spent the 2010s attempting to literally erase any and all distinctions made between trans folk and biological men and women. For example: Most lesbians and gay men would probably have been fully on board with the trans rights campaign if some of the incredibly vocal extremists hadn't been pushing a narrative that the era of "gender is a social construct" meant that a person wasn't allowed to have sexual preferences anymore. I know that's one of the main reasons I first took issue with it - the idea which is commonly pedalled that in a world in which there is literally no difference between someone who is born male or female and someone who identifies as such - post-op or non-op - and that I, as a straight lad, was some kind of bigot for being uncomfortable with dating or engaging in sexual activities with someone who wasn't biologically female.

The fact, to take one ludicrous and lighthearted example, that you can specify your sexual preference on dating websites and apps, but it is now irrelevant as people of the opposite sex can and do sign up as the opposite gender and as such are still able to interact with your profile despite the fact that you've made it clear you're not sexually interested in people of that sex - and that dating apps and websites have been attacked, hounded and vilified in the past for enforcing rules about this to the point of all-but-abandoning the concept of gender selection on their platforms.

That's a silly and minor lighthearted example of how ludicrous it is - the fact that I, a straight man, can come across other men on Tinder or whatever because they 'identify' as women even though I would have set my profile to say that I'm not interested in matching with other men. But that's obviously a silly and minor issue (unless of course someone ends up riding somebody who hasn't disclosed this, in which case it would by all feminist metrics count as rape by deception - and has happened a number of times in the US with varying horrible consequences) - it's no real problem and is just mildly amusing and absurd in the majority of cases.

Taken in other contexts though and it really does become a problem - for example, one of the lesbian forums on Reddit recently had a bit of an upheaval because someone posted that she had been attacked for being "transphobic" for not wanting to date a man, because he either identified as a woman or had actually had surgery to that effect (can't remember which). This caused a serious drama over there between those who attacked OP as transphobic for not being willing to date a woman-identifying-male, and those who regarded sexual preference as a personal choice and the idea of biological men invading lesbian spaces and biological women invading gay spaces under the pretext of transgender identity as utterly absurd.

Once the extremists began to push that narrative, it suddenly became everyone's problem, as opposed to just a personal issue which the vast majority of decent, non-judgmental people wouldn't have taken any issue with on the grounds of "you do you, live and let live" etc. This is the aspect of trans ideology which is causing so much havoc, doing so much harm both to society in general and to the trans movement itself, and is itself now unquestionable under threat of being "cancelled" if you do speak up about it.

I refer once again to the following graphic, which on the surface seems like something ridiculous to laugh at, but taken to its logical conclusion is the basis on which many SJW types are attempting to deny people the right to a sexual preference.