In a shot at "gender critical" activists, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women announced that trans rights are not opposed to women's rights for Pride Month.
I wish the UN would play a more active role in helping at-risk trans women obtain unqualified asylum in safe countries (with asylum = dignified existence, not throwing someone into an internment camp in their destination country), who are now in places that are eroding their rights (and if the GOP wins elections in November, the U.S. will quickly be added to that category). And in emphasizing that persecution and discrimination based on gender identity is and should be a legitimate reason to be granted asylum.
If you need to talk to someone now, call the Trans Lifeline at 1-877-565-8860. It’s staffed by trans people, for trans people. The Trevor Project provides a safe, judgement-free place to talk for LGBTQ youth at 1-866-488-7386. You can also call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Just after you were born, a person, or people, gave you some measure of loving kindness, some amount of compassionate understanding. If not, you would not be alive now. That was your introduction to life, the implicit knowledge that loving kindness and compassionate understanding are indispensable for human life to exist.
The foundation of human life, therefore, is loving kindness and compassionate understanding.
As we age we are taught otherwise by damaged people. 💔
Their misdirection is rarely intentional. They are simply sick due to their own early learning experiences/trauma.
Once this is understood, we can seek help to dismantle the wrong thinking that we were taught and insert, through daily practice, right thinking, and thereby right actions.
The teacher that I have learned from is Thich Nhat Hahn, and the practitioners who learned from him before me.
You may, of course, learn from someone else, but please do...learn that is.
Let's see what the TERFs have to say, to this. I think they will try to contradict it, but as usual, they'll look like haters, their attempts to marginalize could really marginalize themselves.
That makes me happy. There are people who can understand and not treat us like we don't exist. However, I am very upset by the Olympic Swimming committee for not letting Lia Thomson compete.
"The policy dictates male-to-female transgender athletes would only be eligible to compete in the women’s categories if they transition before the age of 12 or before they reach stage 2 of the puberty Tanner Stages."
There is a reality that trans women fail to embrace. Post puberty #2, their bodies become fully male. Trans men's bodies become fully female. Society has no current way to determine whether that is an advantage for trans women. Feet, hands, height, muscular-skeletal structure, etc., far exceed that of cis women. Hormones don't change that and t-women could ease up on taking female hormones. Especially serious athletes. There is a reason why they separate men's sports from women's. There's always this question in the back of people's minds, "Would that woman WIN competitions if she was competing with cismales?" Until that question is answered, there's going to be a lot of people on the fence about this, including me.
So, yeah, it was predictable that some of you would call me transphobic and what not, because you don't like being challenged about this sports thing. I'm not terribly bothered that people resort to insults when they aren't winning a debate or argument. It's predictable.
I will tell you this, "I understand your upset at being challenged." At the same time, people don't want to face reality quite often today, and there are just some things that are showing evidence that we need to tread lightly. This is one of those things. You can't force this down people's throats. To do so will trigger them more than it triggers you. They hold the keys of acceptance about trans people in mainstream cis sports, not us.
If you don't understand the other side, the other side won't understand you. As a transman who lived/breathed amateur & professional sports growing up, I understand the other side, because I think like the other side when it comes to this. After much deliberation, mind you. Doesn't make me anything but a man who thinks with his head, not his emotions.
BTW, if you want to get nasty with me, be prepared for me to get nasty with you. I don't come from "turn the other cheek" mentality. Still, you're fighting the wrong people and are showing your true domineering colors.
I don't mind the offensive woman taking out her comments so you have no idea the context on which I went left on her. I won't delete mine. Just know she attacked the messenger instead of the message and got attacked back. It is what it is.
Cis people are already freaking out about us being part of mainstream society. This is the crazy United States, not other countries. Sports & this country operates on a craze level. So question. Do you think they'll go through a bunch of changes for a few trans people who can make it to the Olympics? The cost would out-weigh everything, and we haven't been studied enough.
I think it admirable that they even figured out the part about our first puberty stages. Pushing against that grain just makes them angrier. We will never be cis, no matter what we do. That's a reality we MUST live with and do the best we can. If we don't, you're going up against the cis ego and we won't win. Come from a place of logic, not emotions. I'm talking about everything else, less height. But in some sports, height does matter. The Olympics has to take everything into account. Professional sports, too. Basketball, yeah, height matters.
Listen, you need to step off calling this transman transphobic. Like really, Sophie. I'm not talking about embarrassment. I'm talking facts of the current state of sports and transgender people. I understand both sides, but I side with being logical about all this. Fuck anybody saying I'm transphobic because I disagree with them, including you. Women love to sling that shit at people who disagree with them and it's immature bullshit. I think with my brain, not my emotions. You start insulting me, and I guarantee you will live to regret it. Maybe not. I'll just block you so you can't run your mouth anymore. I already told you I'm one of a few people who understand what's going on.
I've heard those arguments again and again, and it's always from people who aren't athletes. You don't understand the psyche of athletes and no matter what you say, THEY TRAIN TO WIN! When you train, you gain things, lose body fat, etc. ... quicker & more robustly than cis women do. Hormones don't magically turn trans women into cis women. They don't turn trans men into cis men either. Why you guys keep arguing against that is pointless to people who understand biology, American sports & transgenderism.
Swimming definitely includes all those things, including lung capacity, feet size, etc. You're trying to tell me that hormones change lung capacity and shrink your feet? Gurl, pulease. Put her up against cis male swimmers and see how she ranks. Have her hormone-levels checked before competition, and they'd have to check with WPATH to see what her levels should be. I'm telling you, the results won't be anything accurate.
Just like trans men shouldn't be competing with cis women because of testosterone, trans women shouldn't be competing with cis women for similar reasons. ADVANTAGE! Transmen already know better, but have less egos than you ladies do. We weren't raised to maximize ego, no matter what is being said. Turning you into people who have cognitive dissonance. It takes a lot of personal work for you ladies to reduce ego, and the same for gentlemen to maximize theirs. On both sides, they aren't taking that seriously ... for the most part.
I was an athlete, and my father was a professional baseball player. A very famous one. You can't argue that stuff with me, because I know better, Sophie. I said to check those egos at the door before stepping to me. I'm being nice now, but keep trying to justify this crap with me, and I'll read you the riot-act about all this. I have a vantage point that most transmen don't have ... hell, transwomen don't have either. I lived athletics from the inside-out. I'm not a sports fan talking about this from that POV.
Put that same trans woman up against cis men, see how she ranks, and we might know something but I doubt it. Putting her up against cis males won't be accurate either, cuz she can merely swim less rigorously to prove a point. Can that be measured? NO! If you ask me, they're fiery mad at our community for t-women empowering each other about this. It's not fair to any of us. Few sports would qualify for being post-puberty gender non-specific. The sports that people clamor & pay for.
I can't stand her for other reasons, but she has the vantage point that I have, and Caitlyn Jenner tried to tell you. Crab mentality has y'all ignoring her on this front. She knows and I know too, but we're severely outnumbered against most of t-women's egos & SPORTS FAN mentality. I understand what you're saying and there are some paid sports that don't qualify for this. Like billiards. But, this is about that swimmer. She has an advantage now, among other things that can't be measured.
I'm half annoyed & understanding at the same time. But good grief and good day!
Yes I do live on the same small island. Do you think I avoid discrimination based on being transgender? Bitch, please. I'm Black and there's way more of that hatred towards us than towards transgender people. I have to live inside of both worlds, and you just need to shut the fuck up already. How 'bout that? Welcome to being treated like a Black person. If I was transphobic, that means I hate myself. That's so stupid, because I do not. SMFH
"Lia Thomas ... won one event in an unusually slow field, with a time that would have placed her third in many previous years." But she's still faster than Riley "5th Place" Gaines. 😉
I am pleased they explicitly highlighted the overlap between the online manosphere and gender criticism. I attended a violence against women and girls awareness conference at work last year which included a segment on the manosphere (especially incels). When I thought on what I learned that day, I found myself thinking about several practical parallels between the movements: the complaints by a relatively privileged group against a disenfranchised one, the manufacture of spiteful stereotypes, the conspiratorial belief that society is stacked against them and the wallowing in their own victimhood. It was quite striking.
If it wasn’t for the UN and their influence on the rhetoric of competing powers, the U.S. would go about trampling human rights in obscurity through their resource predation kleptocrats.
No, no, it's their crazy asses ruining civilization. Wasn't our idea to tell them to fuck less, reproduce less, and be bat-shit crazy while raising their children. LOL
If the UK spent just half as much time on modern dentistry as they do on trans issues they'd be a lot better off.
I wish the UN would play a more active role in helping at-risk trans women obtain unqualified asylum in safe countries (with asylum = dignified existence, not throwing someone into an internment camp in their destination country), who are now in places that are eroding their rights (and if the GOP wins elections in November, the U.S. will quickly be added to that category). And in emphasizing that persecution and discrimination based on gender identity is and should be a legitimate reason to be granted asylum.
If you need to talk to someone now, call the Trans Lifeline at 1-877-565-8860. It’s staffed by trans people, for trans people. The Trevor Project provides a safe, judgement-free place to talk for LGBTQ youth at 1-866-488-7386. You can also call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
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This is good to see, though, as a note, if you go to view the Instagram post from UN Women that Erin linked to, you may want to skip the comments. 😬
Are you a human being?
Then;
Just after you were born, a person, or people, gave you some measure of loving kindness, some amount of compassionate understanding. If not, you would not be alive now. That was your introduction to life, the implicit knowledge that loving kindness and compassionate understanding are indispensable for human life to exist.
The foundation of human life, therefore, is loving kindness and compassionate understanding.
As we age we are taught otherwise by damaged people. 💔
Their misdirection is rarely intentional. They are simply sick due to their own early learning experiences/trauma.
Once this is understood, we can seek help to dismantle the wrong thinking that we were taught and insert, through daily practice, right thinking, and thereby right actions.
The teacher that I have learned from is Thich Nhat Hahn, and the practitioners who learned from him before me.
You may, of course, learn from someone else, but please do...learn that is.
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Excellent.
Let's see what the TERFs have to say, to this. I think they will try to contradict it, but as usual, they'll look like haters, their attempts to marginalize could really marginalize themselves.
That makes me happy. There are people who can understand and not treat us like we don't exist. However, I am very upset by the Olympic Swimming committee for not letting Lia Thomson compete.
"The policy dictates male-to-female transgender athletes would only be eligible to compete in the women’s categories if they transition before the age of 12 or before they reach stage 2 of the puberty Tanner Stages."
There is a reality that trans women fail to embrace. Post puberty #2, their bodies become fully male. Trans men's bodies become fully female. Society has no current way to determine whether that is an advantage for trans women. Feet, hands, height, muscular-skeletal structure, etc., far exceed that of cis women. Hormones don't change that and t-women could ease up on taking female hormones. Especially serious athletes. There is a reason why they separate men's sports from women's. There's always this question in the back of people's minds, "Would that woman WIN competitions if she was competing with cismales?" Until that question is answered, there's going to be a lot of people on the fence about this, including me.
Check those egos at the door, ladies. LOL
So, yeah, it was predictable that some of you would call me transphobic and what not, because you don't like being challenged about this sports thing. I'm not terribly bothered that people resort to insults when they aren't winning a debate or argument. It's predictable.
I will tell you this, "I understand your upset at being challenged." At the same time, people don't want to face reality quite often today, and there are just some things that are showing evidence that we need to tread lightly. This is one of those things. You can't force this down people's throats. To do so will trigger them more than it triggers you. They hold the keys of acceptance about trans people in mainstream cis sports, not us.
If you don't understand the other side, the other side won't understand you. As a transman who lived/breathed amateur & professional sports growing up, I understand the other side, because I think like the other side when it comes to this. After much deliberation, mind you. Doesn't make me anything but a man who thinks with his head, not his emotions.
BTW, if you want to get nasty with me, be prepared for me to get nasty with you. I don't come from "turn the other cheek" mentality. Still, you're fighting the wrong people and are showing your true domineering colors.
I don't mind the offensive woman taking out her comments so you have no idea the context on which I went left on her. I won't delete mine. Just know she attacked the messenger instead of the message and got attacked back. It is what it is.
Cis people are already freaking out about us being part of mainstream society. This is the crazy United States, not other countries. Sports & this country operates on a craze level. So question. Do you think they'll go through a bunch of changes for a few trans people who can make it to the Olympics? The cost would out-weigh everything, and we haven't been studied enough.
I think it admirable that they even figured out the part about our first puberty stages. Pushing against that grain just makes them angrier. We will never be cis, no matter what we do. That's a reality we MUST live with and do the best we can. If we don't, you're going up against the cis ego and we won't win. Come from a place of logic, not emotions. I'm talking about everything else, less height. But in some sports, height does matter. The Olympics has to take everything into account. Professional sports, too. Basketball, yeah, height matters.
Listen, you need to step off calling this transman transphobic. Like really, Sophie. I'm not talking about embarrassment. I'm talking facts of the current state of sports and transgender people. I understand both sides, but I side with being logical about all this. Fuck anybody saying I'm transphobic because I disagree with them, including you. Women love to sling that shit at people who disagree with them and it's immature bullshit. I think with my brain, not my emotions. You start insulting me, and I guarantee you will live to regret it. Maybe not. I'll just block you so you can't run your mouth anymore. I already told you I'm one of a few people who understand what's going on.
I've heard those arguments again and again, and it's always from people who aren't athletes. You don't understand the psyche of athletes and no matter what you say, THEY TRAIN TO WIN! When you train, you gain things, lose body fat, etc. ... quicker & more robustly than cis women do. Hormones don't magically turn trans women into cis women. They don't turn trans men into cis men either. Why you guys keep arguing against that is pointless to people who understand biology, American sports & transgenderism.
Swimming definitely includes all those things, including lung capacity, feet size, etc. You're trying to tell me that hormones change lung capacity and shrink your feet? Gurl, pulease. Put her up against cis male swimmers and see how she ranks. Have her hormone-levels checked before competition, and they'd have to check with WPATH to see what her levels should be. I'm telling you, the results won't be anything accurate.
Just like trans men shouldn't be competing with cis women because of testosterone, trans women shouldn't be competing with cis women for similar reasons. ADVANTAGE! Transmen already know better, but have less egos than you ladies do. We weren't raised to maximize ego, no matter what is being said. Turning you into people who have cognitive dissonance. It takes a lot of personal work for you ladies to reduce ego, and the same for gentlemen to maximize theirs. On both sides, they aren't taking that seriously ... for the most part.
I was an athlete, and my father was a professional baseball player. A very famous one. You can't argue that stuff with me, because I know better, Sophie. I said to check those egos at the door before stepping to me. I'm being nice now, but keep trying to justify this crap with me, and I'll read you the riot-act about all this. I have a vantage point that most transmen don't have ... hell, transwomen don't have either. I lived athletics from the inside-out. I'm not a sports fan talking about this from that POV.
Put that same trans woman up against cis men, see how she ranks, and we might know something but I doubt it. Putting her up against cis males won't be accurate either, cuz she can merely swim less rigorously to prove a point. Can that be measured? NO! If you ask me, they're fiery mad at our community for t-women empowering each other about this. It's not fair to any of us. Few sports would qualify for being post-puberty gender non-specific. The sports that people clamor & pay for.
I can't stand her for other reasons, but she has the vantage point that I have, and Caitlyn Jenner tried to tell you. Crab mentality has y'all ignoring her on this front. She knows and I know too, but we're severely outnumbered against most of t-women's egos & SPORTS FAN mentality. I understand what you're saying and there are some paid sports that don't qualify for this. Like billiards. But, this is about that swimmer. She has an advantage now, among other things that can't be measured.
I'm half annoyed & understanding at the same time. But good grief and good day!
Yes I do live on the same small island. Do you think I avoid discrimination based on being transgender? Bitch, please. I'm Black and there's way more of that hatred towards us than towards transgender people. I have to live inside of both worlds, and you just need to shut the fuck up already. How 'bout that? Welcome to being treated like a Black person. If I was transphobic, that means I hate myself. That's so stupid, because I do not. SMFH
By who? By QueenNay? 😊
"Lia Thomas ... won one event in an unusually slow field, with a time that would have placed her third in many previous years." But she's still faster than Riley "5th Place" Gaines. 😉
I am pleased they explicitly highlighted the overlap between the online manosphere and gender criticism. I attended a violence against women and girls awareness conference at work last year which included a segment on the manosphere (especially incels). When I thought on what I learned that day, I found myself thinking about several practical parallels between the movements: the complaints by a relatively privileged group against a disenfranchised one, the manufacture of spiteful stereotypes, the conspiratorial belief that society is stacked against them and the wallowing in their own victimhood. It was quite striking.
If it wasn’t for the UN and their influence on the rhetoric of competing powers, the U.S. would go about trampling human rights in obscurity through their resource predation kleptocrats.
Amazing news!! Thanks, Erin!
Excellent reporting. Thank you Erin.
No, no, it's their crazy asses ruining civilization. Wasn't our idea to tell them to fuck less, reproduce less, and be bat-shit crazy while raising their children. LOL
Thank you for addressing this.