As the U.K. snap elections take place, a British-American trans woman reflects on the painful and lasting impact of the anti-trans movement in the country.
  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2221·
    5 months ago

    Hhhmmm… Not very genocide of people aren’t being rounded up and executed, and not very silent if there’s news articles talking about it.

    Sensationalist crap.

    • lmaydev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      5 months ago

      That’s not what genocide means. You can’t come up with your own definition of a word then attack people for not using said made up definition.

      That said genocide doesn’t quite fit as it’s not based on race or culture. Eugenics would be a more correct term.

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      52·
      5 months ago

      UN definition of genocide: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

      Although you can’t technically genocide trans people because they’re not one of the special groups outlined in the definition, you don’t actually need to kill people to commit a genocide. I would argue that there is “intent to destroy, in whole or in part” trans people by “Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group” and “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”. By taking away healthcare and other accommodations, serious harm is caused to trans people. Couple this with the high suicide rates of bullied and marginalised trans people, one could argue that the lawmakers are intending to kill trans people (although I personally wouldn’t go that far)

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        If this broad definition of causing harm is used, then one can argue that the United States is committing genocide against its general population, considering how screwed up their healthcare system is. So I doubt the United Nations would see it as genocide unless someone is actively committing it.

        And by actively, I mean directly ordering the destruction of trans people, by causing serious bodily and mental harm. That invokes more the image of concentration camps, or work camps, or displaced populations. Kinda what China is doing to the Uyghur people.

  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1312·
    5 months ago

    Why do we call it “Gender” reassignment surgery, when it’s actually Sex-reassignment surgery? Gender isn’t sex, remember?

    • MoonManKipper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      5 months ago

      Because it’s reassigning someone’s gender - e.g. making a female body look more like a man’s. We don’t have the technology to change someone’s biological sex, but we can help them by giving them a body that more closely resembles their gender identity.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        5 months ago

        People can do whatever they need for their identity, but they need to remember it’s just an identity. It exists for a reason that does not come from within a person. That’s the whole premise of an identity, pursuing a specific treatment from society based on how it identifies you. The happiest people in human history give few fucks about their identity.

        So I can see why some people find it sad. But I can see why other people just as caught up and trained by society would be mad, not really understanding it’s got nothing to do with them.

        • lmaydev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          5 months ago

          Almost everyone cares deeply about their identity. People’s identities just pull from different things.

          An equivalent would be banning a certain sport or type of music or food type, etc. that people identify with.

          If they tried to ban football or rock music you can bet a lot of people would lose their minds.

          • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            Yeah, everyone’s got it to a degree. Some will be violent over those sports. Others simply make sure they look professional before going to work. I think people just need to remember what it all is at times though, before harming themselves or others in the process. I get upset at people hating who they are as much as people hating others for who they are, like anyone hada choice in it all lol.

            Can’t wait until we’ve passed it on by and socially evolved, but I will be long dead when that happens. Until then, don’t let people get ya down and just be you, y’all!

            • lmaydev@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              5 months ago

              I think the point is they don’t hate who they are. We don’t let them be themselves. They hate who they are forced to be.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      The whole situation is BS in the first place, back in the days the concept of gender was introduced to allow some flexibility in the social aspects while keeping sex (as in phenotype) a binary which science already knew it wasn’t. Bimodal distribution, yes, binary, no. Things get complicated fast once you go past egg cells and sperm, that’s the only actual binary that exists.

      English in particular uses transsexual because back in the days activists wanted to avoid associations with sexuality, to not get tangled up in people’s homophobic sentiments. Other language use precisely that term, transsexual. Hirschfeld coined “transvestite”, back then a catch-all term for behaviour not conforming to your sex assigned at birth (and you could get a transvestite pass in Imperial Germany to stop the police harassing you for “inciting public disorder”), Benjamin coined “transsexual”, in English, as a diagnosis separate to “just liking to dress up differently”, it got replaced later on don’t ask me for a source right now.