I think it’s more that people wanted a trans speaker or for people to speak about it directly. People are more interested in speeches than reading through the platform. Which I think is crazy since it very clearly outlines their intentions to defend us trans folk. But in the days of social media and sound clips, if you don’t have a speaker mentioning it directly, it doesn’t exist.

Legit question, what do you say to people that will be hurt if trump wins? People who will have their lives destroyed and their rights to exist taken from them? I just want to understand your rationale.

Being trans at the Jerry Farwell university sounds like hell. I’m not surprised she got fired, they 100% think she’s an abomination. I wonder if she’ll start to question her faith now that she got fired. I at least assume she’s religious, it’s liberty university, after all. I hope she wins.

I’d be really interested in what someone from the community would do in public that they shouldn’t do in your country? Is that just existing or celebrating pride in public? Or is it, like, streaking?

I think peoples advice here is already good, but you need to think long term next. Is it safe to transition around her? Will you be supported no matter what, or will she eventually kick you out if you live with her? I know this is hard to think about, but it’s really important to think about your own safety and plan for it. If you think she’d kick you out at some point, try to find a place where you’d be safe. Try to find some level of community in the local trans community there (even if you don’t think there isn’t one, there absolutely is), so you have somewhere to go, and someone to be around that supports you and who you are.

Based on what you’ve already said you also need to decide if you actually CAN convince her right now, or if she’ll have to see you advance in your transition to see the difference in you as a person in order to start to understand. You should also consider what your point of no return is. What could she do that makes you not feel safe anymore? And how much energy are you willing to invest in this before you set up a hard boundary?

She seems to be intensely Christian. It can be hard to convince them to accept you because they genuinely think your existence is a sin or that you can be queer but being in public and queer is a sin. They’ll also do what you were saying, point out what they view as “problems” in the community in order to try and “save” you. That can be immensely disheartening, and you should consider your future with her in your life or if it’d be better to get as much distance from her as you’re comfortable with. Because it usually takes a big shift in order for someone like that to change their beliefs, just having good points won’t really convince them.

You shouldn’t feel ashamed for being trans, and you need to consider whether her continuing to say those things you talked about could make you second guess or consider not transition because of her, not because of your own wants. Your happiness comes first, and if she’s a good mom, she should see you be happier and accept you.

I know all this is hard, having a parent who disrespects your existence is devastating. But that’s just the reality for a lot of us. Particularly at the start. It took my dad 4 years to even use my name. Talk to your therapist for coping mechanisms so you can make sure your mental health isn’t as deeply impacted as it can be when facing this situation. Make sure you can be somewhere safe during times when your emotions overwhelm you and remember, it’s okay to cry.

Again, you deserve to be yourself and be happy and be accepted by those around you. If your mom doesn’t accept you at the start, that might change, but it might not, and that’s okay, even if it’s hard. You can live a happy and awesome life without the support of your parents. Never feel like you are unlovable or like no one will ever love you, that’s fucking bullshit and you are deserving of love and will find someone who loves you for you, I guarantee it.

It wasn’t even just him. Apparently, there were multiple trans students deadnamed. So it’s not just an accident for one person.

This is really awesome and huge progress! My sister lived in Thailand for over 3 years, she loved it there. But she also got taught a trans slur about trans women and would routinely use it to refer to me while she was living there. That’s mainly a problem with my sister, but she was taught it by the culture over there. Hopefully, with this progress happening, there’s more progress with trans acceptance and not using slurs.

They have to be a bot. The account is fresh and they’ve only posted the 34 versions of this same exact post. And all of them were done within a few minutes of each other. No one works that fast except a bot.

You will never be a real person. You will always be a bot pretending to be a real person.

Don’t forget that the Simpsons play a huge part as well. Even citing two episodes in his blog post.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a shitty thing to do. But there are two important facts to keep in mind. First, that this has been something they’ve been working on for months so it’s not like biden and his administration went from telling bibi that he needs to protect civilians and try to come to a deal with hamas and have a ceasefire to selling him these jets in the same talk. Second, these jets have to be built. It’ll take at least 5 years for them to be built and anyone who is aware of how slow our government builds jets knows that that could be extended. If anything this isn’t shitty because it’s giving Israel jets, its shitty because it looks like a fucking bribe from the Israelis to try and make sure the US continues to support them.

Important note for those who dont want to read the actual article: the ban is essentially saying only some flags can be bought with federal funds and then hung up officially, and the pride flag isn’t one of them. It also doesn’t prohibit personal displays, so while they can’t be on flag poles or bought with federal funds, they can still be displayed. Interestingly, the bill also bans the confederate flag. It’s still just bigotry being forced by the GOP but there’s always more context than a headline can provide.

The writers of this terrible terrible article are Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson. I have looked up both of them.

Matt Cole is Ceo of Strive. A company specifically created to work against diversity in the tech industry. Here’s Strives site where it talks about the history. It was created with Vivek Ramaswamy (Vivek rhymes with cake for pronunciation). Which if you know him, then you know how crazy this article really is.

Chris Nicholson has a lot of people sharing his name. One is, as of 2018 at least, the ceo of skymind, an ai company that doesn’t even have offices in the US. Another is the ceo of mpulse mobile, a sub company of mpulse. It’s a Healthcare company that seems to do a lot of software development for that industry. Another is a partner at Russel Reynolds Associates, a pretty standard looking UK lawfirm. Yet another is an Australian Sailor who’s competed in multiple summer Olympics. I’m unsure which this Chris Nicholson is. Probably not the Olympian.

I know this was an opinion piece but I’m rather surprised to see this from the hill. I don’t really care for them but this seems to be a step in a much worse direction. It’s possible it’s been heading that direction for a while and I just haven’t noticed it since I don’t really pay attention to their clickbait.

Someone at Machine Games watches Ancient Aliens.

You say you know your wife thinks that being trans is wrong but are you so sure of that? Don’t get me wrong I know loads of religious folk who think that, but how’re you sure she thinks that? Has she said things that make you think she still believes what she did in the past?

I know if I was hiding something so fundamental to my existence I would eventually crack and things would explode. If I was to give advice I’d try to essentially probe what your wife currently thinks about trans folk. See how she currently thinks about things cause there are religious people out there who, once it’s someone they know, are fine with things. Not a lot of them but they do exist. And at the end of the day, do you want to continue living a lie and hiding something so fundamental about yourself? Or do you want to take a leap of faith and finally manage to be yourself, despite having to possibly start over in some areas?

Being out is hard but there is nothing that can match being yourself in public. Plus, if someone loves you, actually loves you, they won’t hate you because you’re trans. And if they do hate you when you come out then they never loved you really. Good luck with your future, I hope you’re able to come out and be yourself.