The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended

Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by oska on Saturday October 29, 2022 @07:57AM (#33383268)

You're using intersex ppl and the very real issues they have faced to then push gender ideology (your transition at the end to "A group whose bodies are functionally male but who feel a deep revulsion at being a man"). That's exploitative of intersex people but is sadly consistent with gender ideologues always trying to piggyback on other group's issues (e.g. the attempt to piggbyback on the struggles that same sex attracted people have faced).

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by socialismisok on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:34AM (#33384362)

I'm starting a discussion about the definition of women and men, first by discussing cis people, then introducing the idea that the simple label doesn't always apply, and if there is agreement, I planned to discuss trans and non binary identities.

The goal is to explain that it is not as simple as XX or XY, not to say trans and intersex people face the same challenges.

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by Shared404 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:37AM (#33384381)

You are aware that trans individuals have been part of the LGBT movement feom the beginning, even back before AIDS when it was the GLBT movement, right?

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by socialismisok on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:38PM (#33387285)

Yeah, fuck, Stonewall was instigated by trans women, lesbians, and eventually gay men fighting back against oppression together. The Ball scene has always had a trans component.

To say that gender issues are piggybacking on homosexual issues is revisionism, full stop.

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by oska on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:13PM (#33387559)

I didn't say anything about your so-called 'LGBT movement'. I talked about 'the struggles that same sex attracted people have faced', struggles that span millennia and cultures. Your so-called 'LGBT movement' is highly western culture oriented (particularly US American / New York culture, see the other commenter's reference to Stonewall), recent and ideologically constructed. That is very different to my formulation, which is non-ideological, non-identitarian and consequently universally inclusive (for all same sex attracted people).

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by Shared404 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:44PM (#33387780)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history

Trans people have spanned history, and much like people who experience same-sex attraction have experienced a variety of acceptance and rejection based on the culture at the time.

In what way is this piggy backing? In addition, as far as western contexts pre-GLBT, both transgender and same sex attracted people have been related since pre-nazi Germany and both were persecuted by the Nazis (to be clear, this is not an invitation to invoke Godwin's Law, nor me comparing you to a Nazi. It's just an example of a case where gay and trans individuals have been joined together).

E: Fixed spelling and expanded second paragraph.

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