| The disinformation has a purpose sadly. And it's clearly working. I'm not sure how to fix it though. More doctors speaking out? seeing some parents & their young trans kids feels helps. The fact that the word 'humanizing' is used just shows how gross this is; that these kids and queer people are somehow not human already. Just as a thought experiment type rabbit hole, I've spent some time thinking about the net benefit of our increasing representation and being more integrated into society at large. It feels that on the whole the #s look more accepting. Gay marriage has majority support (so does abortion..) But seeing trans people and queer people on TV has triggered an insane backlash. See it on HN threads all the time. "netflix is all propaganda." When the representation numbers are just barely catching up the real general population (of which is probably still low given closeting). Our existence isn't propaganda. It's not indoctrination to live our truth. But a lot of people feel threatened and backed into a corner which is dangerous. And some politicians pick up on this and whip it up into an very dangerous frenzy of disinformation and hate. |