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You want social justice. Every unjust thing that happens anywhere is blasted all over the internet. Life seems hopeless. You become unhappy.

It's likely that simple.

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Here's an even simpler explanation: The planet is dying and the leading candidate on the right is publicly whoring it out to the highest bidder. The people on the left aren't much better because most of US politics is under the thumb of the worst market forces.

It's hard not to be depressed in the middle of an extinction event for most species.

It’s clear that the real culprit is misinformation if you truly think the planet is dying.

"The planet is dying" is shorthand. We're changing it too rapidly for existing species to adapt and they are dying out. That is fact. Does that mean the planet will become uninhabitable forever? Probably not, Earth can bounce back if given a few million years. That's a small comfort for those of us alive today.

It's a lazy misleading shorthand. The planet has and will survive and thrive even when 90% of species go extinct.

90% of species going extinct is a pretty bleak scenario, no hyperbole is necessary.

Misleading to who? Sounds like we both knew what I meant.

In any case, my point stands that accelerated extinction is depressing, and this is applauded by the right.

You're also wrong that we'll be in the 10% that survives. Unless you've learned how to live without water.

> live without water.

The Middle East is surviving just fine without sufficient access to fresh water; desalination makes water more expensive but not significantly so.

The things we're doing to the ocean won't be fixed with desalination.

Here's a much, much simpler explanation: believing in delusional nonsense correlates strongly with mental illness.

Seems sound, one look at the stolen election true believers, jewish space laser upvoters, anti vaxxer brain wormers, et al and the correlation is clear.

Doesn't seem to mesh so well with "the further left.." part of the assertion though.

Actually, I’d like to be able to do simple things like legally use the toilet that matches the gender I’ve lived in (and had full surgery for) for 12+ years when I’m in Red States.

Is that really so much to ask for?

(Given the downvotes I’m getting I’m going to assume it is apparently too much to ask for. Either that or people do not believe me when I state that this is indeed an issue in several red States, such as Florida for example which prohibits trans people from using bathrooms in government buildings if their gender doesn’t match their birth certificate)

I am supportive of the idea of trans bathroom rights, but there are many details to work out. Where are the lines? Does a person need to have full surgery? Do they need to have a gender presentation of the gendered bathroom they wish to use? Can any gender use any bathroom?

There is a lot of bigotry involved, but I don't think you can point to lack of laws solely as a bigotry problem. There are a lot of lines to define and details to iron out.

This is a lot of imagined complexity that's been resolved in other countries by simply adopting gender-neutral restrooms.

Car pollution is an imagined complexity because other countries have simply adopted mass transportation.

There are millions of gendered restrooms today. It is an issue that has to be addressed by any law.

Okay, but so what? There are nuances involved in all policy implementation, that's not a compelling reason to oppose bringing it to the table. If it is offered in earnest (and I'm not convinced it is), it's reductive.

What you are calling nuances are major points though. At what point are you "identified" enough with your preferred gender to use that gender's restrooms and locker rooms? I feel no one want to pick a line because someone will be offended they didn't pick a more progressive line.

The best option, if available, is to use a single-stall (gender neutral) restroom.

Otherwise? If you "pass" then no one is going to say anything, because they will never know. If you don't "pass", then tough, go to the men's restroom. Women don't want a man in their restroom, and parents don't want a man in the restroom with their girls.

Bottom line: You being trans is not anyone else's problem.

Two problems with that, first one is these men are often unaware of the extent to which they don't pass. Second one is that some of them get off to defying women's boundaries, it gives them a thrill.

Only solution is to legislate against it so at least there's some consequence of being caught.

There’s an awful lot of projection in your comment.

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