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I have two core principles that motivate my beliefs about government policy regarding trans people. First, I don’t fucking care which bathroom you use. It’s none of my goddamn business. It’s especially not the government’s business and the threat of state violence over this is insane.
Second, human sexuality is not binary. That’s just an observable fact. Intersex people exist. There are undoubtedly people all over the spectrum in between.
Finally and most importantly we should respect people’s dignity and right to self-determination. If you want to present as a woman or man, that is your right to decide and not mine
But why is it right that that position then be extended to be binding on third parties, like families with little girls who don't want growth men in their private spaces where they're getting changed, or to their daughters who want fair competition in their chosen sports?
They…can go somewhere else? Like, there are religions in which a man can’t sit next to a woman on a plane. That’s sort of on them to deal with. Not society.
So it's the radicals who should go somewhere else, and leave normal, mentally healthy people be.
We have reams of studies on the mental health of Swedes and Japanese, on one hand, and religiously-conservative Americans, on the other hand. The parents of kids freaking out about seeing a penis aren’t on the stable end.