this is just what i think, but it might be, that someone who questions gender identity, might also question capitalsim instead of just accepting the rethorics..
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anything that forces you to question the status quo will prod you into questioning other things.
for me, it's being queer; brown; and on the spectrum, which are all things that get you frequent rejection from almost all status-quo-loving groups of people.
Can confirm, started with going vegan for me. After that I kicked out my religion/faith, then the belief in the state and then in my gender lol.
Capital is built upon the foundation of strictly enforced gender roles, men enfocring monogamy so they could be sure who their sons were, to consolidate wealth in their family
read the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, or there's a shorter section about it in Transgender Warriors
wow prole wiki was the 4th result when I searched for this book
There's probably some overlap where people capable of accepting themselves as transgender instead of denying it are more ready to deny tradition in general
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What does "40%" mean in this context?
A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. It found that interpersonal microaggressions and emotional neglect by family members were the leading contributors to the attempts.
Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide.
According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide.
Meanwhile, a 2018 study of more than 120,000 children age 11 to 19 found that 41.8 percent of non-binary adolescents—those who do not identify as definitively male or female—had attempted suicide
Thanks. That's so sad 😢
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Yeah a bunch of maga think that's an insult, and not just evidence of their cruelty and ignorance.
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The bigger the sample the less likely survivorship bias of the respondents.
Took me forever to find the last study, for those interested, link:
As you can see it's rather lackluster in presenting it's findings.
Adding to the other replies, right wing transphobes routinely hail the suicide rate as a badge of honour. They love joking about it and insinuating it should be higher. They're really not quiet about expressing that they absolutely want trans people to kill themselves.
Iirc there was a stat that ~40% of trans people attempt suicide
Oh.. 😢
Do right-wingers lament the lack of trans people on the right?
Chasers unfortunately exist.
No. As a rule basically anything you see here that the right is "panicking" about is a nothing burger to them.
It's the same with their news feed, they get articles about how the left is "panicking" over shit nobody actually cares about.
More and more were hating fictionalized versions of each other and the ensuing culture war gives the 1% room to pave over our rights.
We're to the point now where the "wft I love/hate X now" meme isn't a joke. The culture war is fully driving people's values, not ideology.
This is the main reason why people vote for trump, they want to win the culture war and don't give a fuck about ideology.
Next time you see a headline or article ask yourself if you actually give a shit or if you're being told to give a shit. You'll be surprised how often it's the latter.
95% of the memes here (like this one) here are just strawmen for culture war fodder.
Strawmen? On Lemmy? Say it ain't so.
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No but people do ask why so many trans people are leftists as opposed to regular ass liberals.
Essentially what Nia Frome answers in The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster.
Struggle informs theory, and theory in turn counsels action. That's why those at the summits of power do everything that can to ridicule and condemn and censor these ideas.
-Leslie Feinberg
Works by Leslie Feinberg:
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Transgender Liberation: A Marxist View
That queer theory broadly shares Western Marxist proclivities towards pessimism and theoreticism is exemplified in its treatment of categories such as normativity, the universal, the bodily, the virtual, and science. Trans people’s experience impels us to seek further afield for a theory adequate to our situation, rejecting the chauvinist anticommunism that other leftists take for granted, and discovering underappreciated benefits to “sympathizing with the monster.” From this deparochialized perspective, it makes as little sense for a Marxist-Leninist to be transphobic as it does for a trans person to be anticommunist.
-Nia Frome
The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster
Bonus: My intro Marxist-Leninist reading list
"Please stay away from me. Ok thanks for accepting me."
I can't bring myself to upvote any of the Incel-origin memes. Ascribing correctness to attractive white people feels too sus.
if 40 percent is lol, whats the rest? also why would a maga dude care about a transgirl's choice in men?
I have to correct you: it's 41%, please get your memes right
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