American groups have helped to establish global web who share ideas and funding in bid to restrict gay and trans rights

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    Amazing how you can specifically state American groups, as if the whole Middle East doesn’t do worse shit.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      22 years ago

      From greatest country in the world to: there is actually a worse country somewhere, even tho we liberated it for 20 years

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    The rest of the world will never care about trans rights, you have to accept that. It’s seen as mental illness because it is mental illness to them. You have to build bridges with traditional cultures, but instead the typical response is “bigot!” which is precisely why nobody outside the US cares

    • such_lettuce7970
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      72 years ago

      Are you saying America is the only place where people care about trans rights? 'Cause I gotta say, as a Canadian and a trans person, I’m SO glad I was born on this side of the border. I imagine I’d feel the same if I were born in (most of) western or northern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc. In my view, much of the US is absolutely full of vile bigotry towards trans folks, and only getting worse.

    • Innti
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      102 years ago

      Well that’s not true, they’ll care eventually. Progress takes time, and just like being gay was and is in certain areas seen as a mental illness, eventually the stigma will be worn away until only the truly fanatical cultures still have issues with it.

      • Machinist3359
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        32 years ago

        It’s also worth mentioning the conceptions of gender varies wildly cross culturally. Many cultures have millennia of trans acceptance pre-colonization. Truly the hegemonic obsession with gender is the anomaly in human history (i.e. shampoo…FOR MEN).

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        That wasn’t hate, stating the fact that you can’t convince people they’re wrong by name calling, which is what you just did. That’s just throwing a fit because someone doesn’t agree with your viewpoint

        • MiscreantMouse
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          Whine, whine, whine. Whatever you want to tell yourself dude, I’m not trying to convince you of anything, just pointing out how silly and back-asswards your ‘traditional cultures’ argument is.

        • Niello
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          You can’t convince anyone by generalising other cultures either. To start with, it’s Christianity that started the whole bigotry deal in some places. There are also places which provide better rights than the US. To say that the rest of the world will never care about trans right as if none are already caring right now is ignorant and pretty insulting, much more than someone calling out specific person for their behaviour.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    It’s scary to me that these people have so much power in the US government. I live in a pretty left-leaning state, but how long until they manage to pass a law federally?