[gr__or]

There is a cultural divide on where you stand wrt transphobia. The default appview is indeed not down with it, where Twitter is ofc very down with it.

The protocol is ambivalent towards it, so if you seek hate, you could host your own. I'm very fine (happy even) with the bsky team not being invested in that side of history.

[aighto]

Yes, and much of it comes down to sexism.

Anyone who looks at Levine and thinks something along the lines of wearing a dress, must be a woman rather than that is obviously a man in a dress has deeply sexist ideas about how women should present themselves.

You can label this as "transphobia" if you like but that's just a tacit acknowledgement that the "trans" belief system is built upon sexist principles.

[gigatree]

And what if you just espouse the normal view that all of history & 97% of people currently on earth hold?

[dpkonofa]

Which view is that? I highly doubt that there's any view that fits the criteria you just posited.

[happytoexplain]

Whatever you mean, you can probably write about it without encouraging hatred for groups of people based on qualities that, by themselves, are harmless, like whether they feel male or female, are biologically male or female, are gay or straight, white or black, etc etc.

[zb3]

Seems that if I write that "X that feels Y is X and not Y", then I'm apparently encouraging hate. But the real point is that I feel descriptions should belong to the person describing, not the person described.. How is this hate?

[gigatree]

The problem is that an overwhelming amount of the left label statements not meant to be hateful as hateful, specifically: “there are two genders”.

Everything has been reduced to “hate”, to the point that it actively muddies the waters wrt actual hatred.

[jhp123]

why would you say "there are two genders"? You haven't heard of nonbinary gender?[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

[civvis]

That depends on your beliefs.

Some people believe that whether you're a man or a woman is based on thoughts in your head, rather than the material biological reality of your sex. They also believe that these thoughts mean you can be neither woman or man, which they call 'non-binary'.

Of course to everyone else this is a rather absurd thing to believe. Like the healing power of crystals or some nonsense like that.

[jhp123]

I disagree. Words have meaning, you can't just use your own personal definitions. The modern definition of "gender" is based on the concept of gender identity and includes more than two genders [0][1]. If you want to make your point understood by most people, you should say "there are two biological sexes", although that is also not correct[2].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender#Noun [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender#dictionary... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

[slater]

Still trying that whole "bigoted anti-trans posts from new hn account" thing, ey?

[Quinner]

You can stay on twitter.