Trump inaugural address: "There are only 2 genders"

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The right sure get themselves agitated about how other people choose to live. So threatened.

These executive orders, if they stand up, end all recognition of trans people's transitions, for all ages. Are you listening, all you enablers of these evil and unconstitutional decrees who chirped "adults can do whatever they want, just leave kids alone"?

I know most of you hate all trans people equally, and I know you're for this wholeheartedly. Maybe some of you will still turn away from it, and fight it while there's time to fight.

Remember, Niemoller's poem doesn't end "And then they came for all the people I hated, and no others, and life was wonderful."

If you're liable for significant amounts of tax you're not working class my dude

Good. Because that person is in fact a man. He can try his hardest to impersonate a woman, but it doesnt change what he is. He belongs in the mens room with every other guy.

Yes, the order is pretty damning. You could take heart in at least some parts being likely to be challenged in court, perhaps successfully. Even if unsuccessful, an executive order is unlikely to survive administration changes unlike congressional law or SCOTUS precedents.

You are right about a visceral hatred for trans that you can sense in most posters here. I imagine that comes from having strong opinions against trans participation in women’s sport, which outrage then spills over indiscriminately to any trans issue beyond sport.

Agreed. I don't expect them to fully hold up. We'll see, but today it doesn't look good at all.

Do you want this person in the women's bathroom?

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She does not impersonate a woman. She was assigned female at birth.

Of course, dudes like yourself want to see women Alicia in men's restroom. I can speculate on all the reasons, but I won't do that here.

How about this person?

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What about intersex people? They are neither male or female by birth, not by choice. Is Trump saying they don't exist?

The thing that‘s been so exhausting about the gender shenanigans of the last decade, is there‘s this messaging that if you don‘t go along with the whole program of how this one faction wants you to talk and think about gender and transitioning, then you are (according to some) automatically a bad person.

So it seems like plenty of regular, normal people — people with absolutely no wish to oppress or do harm to a single person — people only interested in goodness and fairness, but also truth and pragmatism — have been getting put on the defensive, and have to constantly express our kind wishes toward our fellow humans.

But we sense that we are not encouraged to think through the issue and form our own opinions, but rather that this small faction wants us to feel that we must toe the line or get labelled as bad and hateful.

I see that in this thread, where immediately someone comes in with the accusation that if you don‘t agree with them, you are hateful. And I would say that is manipulative nonsense, and THAT‘S what I want to be done with.

Kettle, pot, black in full display.

We are indeed not encouraged to think through the issue. We are told to blindly believe in gender essentialism. And if we deviate from the orthodoxy by one millimeter, we are automatically labelled as enemies of women.

What vast majority? I don’t think it is crazy, or something that should be stopped. What majority are you referring to? Clearly not me, or a lot of other voices on this thread.

Taking cheap politely dunks on a group of citizens that make up 1.4% of the country is not the actions of a populist Everyman. It’s the actions of a very weird and sexually agitated old man.

Gender nonconformity or unique gender expression is and has been a component of every society at every moment of human history. Greek and Roman storytelling (for you western civilization jerk offs) was obsessed with stories and representations of gender nonconformity, as was Shakespeare.

When we talk about the people who chose to identify outside of the binary, we are talking was a small, vulnerable population. You’re a bad person if you keep going after them.

IMPORTANT for an inauguration address. America is back to focusing on what's really important. I will continue to fight about this instead of low wages while corporations rake it in. Thank God for President Trump.

Precisely!

No, really, I think everyone really SHOULD think through the issue for themselves.

I am not saying that you are a bad person if you give it some thought and genuinely think we should all indicate our preferred pronouns in our email signature, or somewhere else for that matter. It is an opinion. Everyone gets to form an opinion, and we might come to different conclusions.

It is not that trump‘s way of thinking about gender and transitioning is the only one or the right one, but I welcomed his expressing an opinion that runs counter to (what I call) the gender shenanigans.

In truth, I disagree with people who want a far-right ideology on gender and transitioning. But I definitely disagree with people who want the extreme-left ideology on gender and transitioning.