Ok first I wanna commend you for actually trying to understand. Even if pretending. It means a lot. To answer your list.
Climate change- no opinion. It changes daily. Or I’m just too dumb to understand it.
Trans ppl- I am a Christian so naturally I don’t agree with it. BUT, I am not like the crazed lunatic Christians that will belittle them, berate them and talk down upon them. Or tell them they are a “perversion of Gods creation” or an abomination. They’re still human. I am human also. Who am I to judge?
God- I am a Christian. More specifically a Southern Baptist Christian. Like I said previously though, I like to think not like some of the crazed lunatic Christians out there. From an early age I was taught to love all walks of life. My church has a saying. Be it cliche or whatever. But the saying is this— “Hate the sin. Love the sinner.”
Guns- Absolutely dangerous. I’m Pro-2A. There’s some unhinged ppl out there that just shouldn’t own firearms. Mental health evaluation and gun safety courses should be mandatory before being able to purchasing any firearm.
Immigration- 1000% ok. But only when done through the proper and legal channels. My family immigrated to the US many years ago from Ireland so I cannot get on board with illegal immigration.
Women- Human, obviously. None of us would be here without them.
State funded healthcare- not educated enough on this matter to have an opinion.
Public transport- could work in larger cities/metro areas. But what about rural areas? How well would that work? Genuinely asking.
Bikes(?)- motor or pedal? I don’t understand this one.
I am a Christian so naturally I don’t agree with it. BUT, I am not like the crazed lunatic Christians that will belittle them, berate them and talk down upon them. Or tell them they are a “perversion of Gods creation” or an abomination. They’re still human. I am human also. Who am I to judge?
I’ve met Christians who never once denied my identity or acted like accepting me was fundamentally against their faith. I could argue that trans identities are a natural and evolved phenomenon, but you don’t seem scientifically inclined. Would anything ever change your mind to recognize us as who we say we are?
Honestly, I’m not sure. Truly I am not sure. I will say though that I don’t like to think that I deny the trans community in what they say they are. I’m trying to explain this as best as I know how without any misunderstanding cuz that tends to happen over text since there’s zero indication of tones and whatnot. Anyways, like if you are what you say you are and you are happy then that’s great. Fantastic even. I’m happy for you. Truly I am. I will sit here and wish you and all of the trans community nothing but absolute happiness and success in life.
It has a lot to do with fundamentals of why you believe what you believe. Did you just get lucky and not get taught to reject and scorn people who don’t fit your worldview? Would you ever reconsider your spiritual understanding with new information on how the world appears to be, and if so, what would be fundamental and what would not?
On a more practical level, how much would you actually support our happiness? Would you have a problem with supportive parents letting their children use professionally guided medication avoid the pain of a puberty they never wanted? If the medications adults currently use to feel comfortable in our skin are made illegal, would you have a problem with us breaking the law to get it? Would you be ok with it because of our dire need, or would it be similar to how you view illegal immigration?
On a more practical level, how much would you actually support our happiness? Would you have a problem with supportive parents letting their children use professionally guided medication avoid the pain of a puberty they never wanted? If the medications adults currently use to feel comfortable in our skin are made illegal, would you have a problem with us breaking the law to get it? Would you be ok with it because of our dire need, or would it be similar to how you view illegal immigration?
You’re talking about puberty blockers for children?
At risk of looking like a fool I decline to answer this fully due to not having a full understanding of it.
So I’ll ask this instead— Why are they illegal? Is it a fundamental/moral reason? Or is there a medical reason? Like they haven’t been able to figure out how to get the dosage or whatever low enough for children to safety be able to take?
In effect, almost everyone ends up going through some form of puberty by default. There are temporary effects that can be reversed at any point by the opposite hormones, but many effects are permanent and costly to adjust later. Going through male puberty at default ages makes you grow taller and sprout permanent facial hair, while you don’t grow as tall with female puberty and gain breasts which are even harder to remove.
The care for trans minors seeks to delay puberty for a couple years, but this is cannot be done for too long, or the window for certain development is missed. As such, anyone who takes puberty blockers eventually has to go down either path. The consequences are that certain things cannot be reversed, so it’s important to get the puberty right the first time whether that be a trans or cisgender one.
With proper therapy and informed consent to discover what the teen truly wants, it is safe and effective at preventing pain for trans kids and giving kids who decide medical transition isn’t right for them an appropriate out. A member of my family explored their gender as a minor, but didn’t medically transition, so I will not say people don’t change their minds. However, that option for people confident in their gender at an early age does save them the horror of watching their body change without being able to stop it.
As far as why it gets made illegal, it is usually not people who are friendly to trans folks doing it. It is usually an effort to eventually ban all trans care, as saying “think of the children” gets people on board. In states like Florida that restricted care for minors, there were less advertised restrictions on adult care that occurred at the same time (preventing medicare from funding it and the like). They put their desire to not see more trans people exist first, and put empirical reality second.
Climate change - yes, too dumb to understand. Actually, I think you are being willfully ignorant. “It changes daily”? Wtf?
Trans ppl - “I am a Christ so naturally I didn’t agree” wtf? Didn’t agree with what?
That’s as far as I could get. I think you are unwilling to challenge what you were raised to believe was right, and you operate out of an unconscious assumption that it couldn’t simply be unfounded.
Ok first I wanna commend you for actually trying to understand. Even if pretending. It means a lot. To answer your list.
Climate change- no opinion. It changes daily. Or I’m just too dumb to understand it.
Trans ppl- I am a Christian so naturally I don’t agree with it. BUT, I am not like the crazed lunatic Christians that will belittle them, berate them and talk down upon them. Or tell them they are a “perversion of Gods creation” or an abomination. They’re still human. I am human also. Who am I to judge?
God- I am a Christian. More specifically a Southern Baptist Christian. Like I said previously though, I like to think not like some of the crazed lunatic Christians out there. From an early age I was taught to love all walks of life. My church has a saying. Be it cliche or whatever. But the saying is this— “Hate the sin. Love the sinner.”
Guns- Absolutely dangerous. I’m Pro-2A. There’s some unhinged ppl out there that just shouldn’t own firearms. Mental health evaluation and gun safety courses should be mandatory before being able to purchasing any firearm.
Immigration- 1000% ok. But only when done through the proper and legal channels. My family immigrated to the US many years ago from Ireland so I cannot get on board with illegal immigration.
Women- Human, obviously. None of us would be here without them.
State funded healthcare- not educated enough on this matter to have an opinion.
Public transport- could work in larger cities/metro areas. But what about rural areas? How well would that work? Genuinely asking.
Bikes(?)- motor or pedal? I don’t understand this one.
I’ve met Christians who never once denied my identity or acted like accepting me was fundamentally against their faith. I could argue that trans identities are a natural and evolved phenomenon, but you don’t seem scientifically inclined. Would anything ever change your mind to recognize us as who we say we are?
Honestly, I’m not sure. Truly I am not sure. I will say though that I don’t like to think that I deny the trans community in what they say they are. I’m trying to explain this as best as I know how without any misunderstanding cuz that tends to happen over text since there’s zero indication of tones and whatnot. Anyways, like if you are what you say you are and you are happy then that’s great. Fantastic even. I’m happy for you. Truly I am. I will sit here and wish you and all of the trans community nothing but absolute happiness and success in life.
It has a lot to do with fundamentals of why you believe what you believe. Did you just get lucky and not get taught to reject and scorn people who don’t fit your worldview? Would you ever reconsider your spiritual understanding with new information on how the world appears to be, and if so, what would be fundamental and what would not?
On a more practical level, how much would you actually support our happiness? Would you have a problem with supportive parents letting their children use professionally guided medication avoid the pain of a puberty they never wanted? If the medications adults currently use to feel comfortable in our skin are made illegal, would you have a problem with us breaking the law to get it? Would you be ok with it because of our dire need, or would it be similar to how you view illegal immigration?
You’re talking about puberty blockers for children?
At risk of looking like a fool I decline to answer this fully due to not having a full understanding of it.
So I’ll ask this instead— Why are they illegal? Is it a fundamental/moral reason? Or is there a medical reason? Like they haven’t been able to figure out how to get the dosage or whatever low enough for children to safety be able to take?
In effect, almost everyone ends up going through some form of puberty by default. There are temporary effects that can be reversed at any point by the opposite hormones, but many effects are permanent and costly to adjust later. Going through male puberty at default ages makes you grow taller and sprout permanent facial hair, while you don’t grow as tall with female puberty and gain breasts which are even harder to remove.
The care for trans minors seeks to delay puberty for a couple years, but this is cannot be done for too long, or the window for certain development is missed. As such, anyone who takes puberty blockers eventually has to go down either path. The consequences are that certain things cannot be reversed, so it’s important to get the puberty right the first time whether that be a trans or cisgender one.
With proper therapy and informed consent to discover what the teen truly wants, it is safe and effective at preventing pain for trans kids and giving kids who decide medical transition isn’t right for them an appropriate out. A member of my family explored their gender as a minor, but didn’t medically transition, so I will not say people don’t change their minds. However, that option for people confident in their gender at an early age does save them the horror of watching their body change without being able to stop it.
As far as why it gets made illegal, it is usually not people who are friendly to trans folks doing it. It is usually an effort to eventually ban all trans care, as saying “think of the children” gets people on board. In states like Florida that restricted care for minors, there were less advertised restrictions on adult care that occurred at the same time (preventing medicare from funding it and the like). They put their desire to not see more trans people exist first, and put empirical reality second.
Not sure why I’m engaging, but what the hell…
Climate change - yes, too dumb to understand. Actually, I think you are being willfully ignorant. “It changes daily”? Wtf?
Trans ppl - “I am a Christ so naturally I didn’t agree” wtf? Didn’t agree with what?
That’s as far as I could get. I think you are unwilling to challenge what you were raised to believe was right, and you operate out of an unconscious assumption that it couldn’t simply be unfounded.