remposting rempostingrecently youtube implemented new measures to prevent viewers from using adblockers. i was extremely disappointed about this but i figured i would be able to adjust until a new workaround comes along.
in the past three days ive gotten the same ad three times despite blocking it the first time for an anti-trans documentary. (when i blocked it, youtube told me that i would no longer see the ad. this was a lie i guess.) i am intensely tired of these attempts to stoke bigotry and vilify trans rights being shoved in my face. i am so tired of "transgenderism" being treated like an ideology and trans rights being treated like something that can be debated.
i think its disgusting that youtube even platforms these extremely blatant ads with anti-trans agendas. oh my god! make it stop! im so tired of this! im just trying to exist! im not fucking trying to TRANS anybody! lets review some of the points that stuck out to me in the ad. ill be paraphrasing quotes here.
gee, is it? maybe thats because being trans is cool, lol. more seriously, i really only see this said by anti-trans people. in general trans people and our allies are having to constantly fight for trans rep and we barely get a smidgeon of it. fucking hell. i have no idea what theyre talking about when they say that its being made to look cool in popular media. why do you think so many trans people end up making headcanons and theories about their favorite characters being trans? its because we dont have actual trans characters..
awesome. yeah, thats what theyre supposed to say, because its fucking true. kids that are prevented from receiving proper medical care do indeed feel like killing themselves more often than kids that are given proper medical care. again, theyre trying to frame this like it is a bad thing, and acting like detransitioners are a huge part of the population when they make up SO, SO few cases when compared to how many trans people their rhetoric puts at risk.
i saw a rebuttal to this stating that ever since youth have been given more access to trans healthcare, youth suicide rates have actually been going up instead of down. i did look at their data, and yes, this is true. have they thought about why this is true besides their own idea that trans healthcare leads to more youth suicide? have they thought AT ALL about how correlation does not equal causation and that kids are killing themselves for tons of fucking reasons, and that even being allowed to transition and being given proper healthcare isnt going to save everyone if they dont have a supportive social network of care? have they thought about how life for trans youth and youth is a fucking nightmare most of the time? because they barely have any rights as individuals and are treated like shit daily by the larger populace? no? nothing? no further critical analysis on what life is like for youths at risk, especially trans youth even WHEN they receive proper healthcare? you know that trans healthcare doesnt include mental health treatment, right?
studies are how these statistics on detransitioner numbers are found. lets also try to think a little critically here about why someone in a study would stop identifying as trans when asked, or why someone would stop taking hormones (another method for people to gather information on detransitioning). there are parental pressures, community and social stigma, and job-hunting difficulties. these are barely discussed by anti-trans proponents.
i have sympathy towards people who have once identified as trans and have now stopped. i dont think theres anything inherently wrong with this. i see gender as having the capacity to be fluid and change over time, and individual understanding of it to change over time, and i have had friends who used to identify as trans and have gone back to identifying as their birth gender and they are extremely reasonable and kind people. but they dont idenfity as "detrans" or as detransitioners, because of how the term has been used specifically to advance political agendas vilifying trans people and our rights. individual cases of detransitioning should not be the reason why trans kids end up killing themselves or are prevented access to proper medical care.
there was more in the ad about parents having rights over allowing their children to transition, and about the state and the government taking away these rights by pressuring the parents. i think thats fucking rad. fuck parents rights. im all in for childrens rights. i fucking hate parents rights. children are individuals and not the fucking property of their parents and should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with proper education and guidance on the subject. obviously there should be regulations because children may not be fully educated on what theyre trying to do but there shouldnt be requirements needing parental permission for a kid to start their transition. because a kid isnt someones property.
with the claim that the state was threatening to "put children in group homes because parents werent being supportive enough of their transition", i was kind of surprised because i havent heard much about this before despite being surrounded by trans people all day every day. when i looked it up i mostly just found news about state specific laws (aimed at supporting LGBT youth) being passed allowing children to be checked into group homes upon request. i guess the fear for anti-trans people is like "oh theyre separating parents from their children now" which.. um.. jesus christ, if your kid wants to be in a group home then they should be allowed to go check in and live in a group home without parental consent. if the fucking STATE thinks youre transphobic enough to separate you from your trans kid then youre probably really fucking transphobic and legitimately not safe for your trans kid to be around. if i was a trans kid living in a home that didnt support me then fuck id want to be in a group home too.
i think ive said everything i wanted to. im glad i was able to write this all out. getting that ad for the third time now was really pissing me off and i was tired of staying quiet about it. i hope that visitors to this page were able to gain something from it.
