Val Valiant

One perspective I've been seeing pop up more and more is the belief that your identity automatically transfers upon you expertise of the subject. Being a woman does not make one an expert on patriarchal structures and how they operate.

The veneration of the pope by a lot of people who are normally quite good with trans stuff leaves a pit in my stomach. I understand that he cannot remake the catholic church by himself, but that point is assuming he would even want to.

I undertand this is not one to one, the pope is apart of a long line of a institution and must work within, but again he wouldn't even want to the completely change the church if he could. He likes how it how it is.

The veneration of the pope by a lot of people who are normally quite good with trans stuff leaves a pit in my stomach. I understand that he cannot remake the catholic church by himself, but that point is assuming he would even want to.

All this to say, if they'll excuse the pope for a meaningless reason (he likes baseball, a lot of people like baseball) and saying smug stuff in reference to Vance than I wonder who else would they excuse?

The veneration of the pope by a lot of people who are normally quite good with trans stuff leaves a pit in my stomach. I understand that he cannot remake the catholic church by himself, but that point is assuming he would even want to.

But hey everybody he's from Chicago and is a baseball fan, and you can't forget his smug remarks about Vance. So people just wilfully ignore or excuse the ongoing horrendous actions and beliefs held by the catholic church.

The veneration of the pope by a lot of people who are normally quite good with trans stuff leaves a pit in my stomach. I understand that he cannot remake the catholic church by himself, but that point is assuming he would even want to.

Something incredibly frustrating about being trans online is seeing people criticize trans "activists" when by activist they mean person they don't like online. This is just a distillation of someone being seen as inherently political.

A rando trans person saying you have bad politics and are an asshole should not be taken as a fault of trans activists as a whole. Any individual trans person having to be impeccable because any fault is taken as a fault of trans people or trans activism as a whole is frustrating.

A reason the topic of youth transition fascinates me so, besides my being trans, is because it touches upon almost every contested area in society.

To what extent does the right to medical privacy exist? How valued should experts be trusted in deciding government policy? Regulating social media? A lot of this hysteria comes from belief in social contagion theory.

A reason the topic of youth transition fascinates me so, besides my being trans, is because it touches upon almost every contested area in society.

Yes Haus is Jewish, but this is still antisemtic. Cloaking it behind a nationality does not negate the antisemitism. Swap out Israeli with Saudi or Somali the bigory behind it becomes clear when you change the nationality.

Hard to see this as a point about settler violence or the genocide as its targeting a child. Being part of a group does not prevent yourself from holding a bigoted view towards that group. We have no problem with saying Caitlyn Jenner, Buck Angel, or Brianna Wu hold transphobic views.

No Kagan the law would not interact in the same way. Conversion therapy and affirmation are different. One is medically akin to torture, the other is not. Would a law banning a therapist from trying to convince their patient to kill themselves be illegal?

Would the mirror then apply, that because trying to convince the patient not to kill themselves is legal, then trying to convince them to kill themselves must be legal? This is really stupid reasoning. Goddamm Kagan and Sotomayor are way too lawyer brained

The whole thing with the tourettes is very tiring. No Davidson is not a racist, and no its not a sign he says the n-word is private. It was an unfortunate situation for all involved, but what do you want? Do you want people with tourettes to walk around with a muzzle on their mouth?

Something people dont understand about mlae socialization is that two things are required. Society sees you as a boy, and you see youself/are a boy, without one of these male socialization cannot happen. A closeted 13 year old trans girl is not experiencing male socialization

Yes society sees her as a boy and treats her such, but her understanding of herself and how she relates to the world doesn't not allow for the completion of male socialization