Posted on 03/09/2020 5:15:17 AM PDT by karpov
...
The race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, after its traumatic defeat in December’s general election, has largely been conducted in the spirit of bury-the-hatchet pragmatism, to the point of tedium. The three candidates have promised, however sincerely, to maintain the general thrust of the party’s policy platform; divisions have mostly been a matter of tone, style and subtle implication. Rancor and controversy have been restrained among the candidates as well as the 500,000-strong membership. Except in one area: trans rights.
A contentious row began last month, when the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights announced itself with 12 pledges, which ranged from recognizing trans people’s oppression — at risk of hate crime and denied equal access to public services, health care, housing and employment — to supporting the expulsion of members who express transphobic views. Rebecca Long-Bailey, the candidate closest to Mr. Corbyn’s politics, and Lisa Nandy, the one farthest away, supported the campaign. The outcry was immediate: People started the hashtag #expelme on Twitter. Hecklers disrupted leadership hustings. And Tony Blair, a former leader and prime minister, warned of “the cul-de-sac of identity politics.”
To many, the sight of a center-left party failing to support trans rights without equivocation must be baffling — not least to American Democrats, whose party, divided in many ways, is firmly united in its support for trans and nonbinary people. But really, it’s no surprise. Transphobia, constantly amplified by the country’s mainstream media, is a respectable bigotry in Britain, shared by parts of the left as well as the right.
There are two main types of British transphobia. One, employed most frequently but not exclusively by right-wing men, rejects outright the idea that gender might not be determined only by biological traits identifiable at birth.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Isn’t the refusal to treat these mentally ill people the real bigotry?
I am in London at the moment, and the opposite seems to be true. There are popular plays and musicals about cross-dressers and transvestites, and guys made up to look like overly madeup women are in lots of advertisements. But of course the New York Times would see transphobia where it doesn’t exist.
Well, I’ll go right ahead and admit that I have a very strong bias against men who think they are women (or pretend to think so.) Women who want to be men, I at least have pity for: being a woman is no fun, and I can understand wanting out of it. They’ll never be real men, but they don’t seem dangerous. Men masquerading as women, however, are dangerous and up to no good. I dislike them intensely.
Why are we even pandering to these crazy and pathetic losers?
Warren said she wanted gangs of feral trans yutes to vet her cabinet picks. I hope against hope that was one of the reasons even the crazies in the demopsycho party flushed her worthless campaign down the toilet.
Notice the language to make everything subjective. One is “assigned a sex at birth” as if it is some arbitrary imposition, not one’s sex is noted at birth (a simple, objective fact of nature).
Exactly. And that goes for all of them - just plain homos as well as trannies.
They should all be under the APA guidelines as they once were.
Amazing how libs have turned into total enabling kow-towing (oooo, is that insensitive?) sycophants in the space of 10 years. While the Gay ‘90s started it all, people still had a natural aversion to faggotry, including the libs. Now libs are busy trying so hard to “make themselves better” by enabling these defectives.
Yes, gender dysphoria is a mental illness.
If they were assigned sexes at birth, 90% of them would be male.
The most frequently cited estimate is that 700,000 people in the United States, or about 0.2 to 0.3 percent of the population, are transgender.
These people have rights but so do the 99.7-99.8% of the population who are not transsexuals.
The Left focuses of these weirdos and the Left also control the media.
That is why we are pandering to this minuscule minority in this country.
A Phobia is a FEAR.
Calling a mentally ill person MENTALLY ILL, is not fear... It’s just acknowledging reality.
“Assigned at birth” is factually incorrect as well. Your sex is “selected” when sperm joins to ovum. Once you have an XX or an XY, your “gender” is 99.9999999999999% set.
There are the extraordinarily rare mutations, but not this BS those on the insane Left are pushing.
Exactly. Truth is not bigotry.
We can be kind to people with horrible mental problems.
All of us are flawed
People are intrinsically flawed.
It is a question of how public and terrible our flaws are, and how we deal with them.
The demand to celebrate our flaws is fundamentally wrong.
The abnormal has been declared normal and if we don’t agree we are phobic. Perhaps it is healthy to fear insanity being considered alright and a protected right.
NYT: Strike One
Used the word phobia: Strikes two and three.
Best that those journalism clowns use a dictionary to discern the difference between fear and disgust.
whateverwordoftheday-phobia. They keep using that word. I do not think that word means what they think it means.
Trannies are defective humans
Defects do not convey special rights
There have always been deeply disturbed people. What’s different now is that the rest of society is expected to celebrate them.
I have Coronaphobia.
I really don’t give a flying rip about you crazy trannies.
In fact, if Corona relieves this world of your endless whining, I’ll be just fine with that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.