Did you ever take a minute to consider how very uncomfortable a transgender person would be going into the washroom they feel they don't belong in?
And you can imagine a child trying to cope with these feelings, or someone who has been battling these feelings for their entire life.
You really can't argue against minority rights when you're most likely a Hetero White Male Middle Class Christian (or self described Atheist from Christian background).
The problem is people abusing the system due to the lack of barrier. It is very reasonable for a woman to be afraid of creepy men just entering the locker rooms/restrooms. It has nothing to do with being a bigot, but with people being able to switch their gender without effort to something they don't believe they are.
I meant my comment more towards the whole using facilities of the sex that a person is transitioning into
I really dont see why we dont have unisex bathrooms eith just full dividers and sinks i, stalls yet fir public restrookms.
I wasnt aware of the sports already had rules concerning this thank you for informing ne
Why can we abuse the system to begin with? Because the social community and culture of humankind is split in two on genders.
A temporary fix to this issue is to give more isolated neutrality.
Why is it so hard to make 20 stalls that's private to the one that's in them?
If people are afraid of the "wrong gender" being in the wrong changing room, why not have private closet rooms to change in that none can peek in? This helps a lot for shy cis-genders.
The problem isn't the "abusers" / "fakers", but the culture, community and government.
Community needs to fix their cynicism and give people a chance as well quitting sexism, culture needs to stop stamping everything sinful based on "non-human / non-natural", government need to issue more neutrality without thinking of typical budget costs as well as fixing the bullshit gender tax / related stuff.
When I say bullshit gender tax, I mean that male paramedics get 20% more payment than female paramedics.
Outside of this, the problem is also trolls and idiots in general. "If I can, then I will"
A male paramedic will not make more than a female paramedic of equal skill, in an equal location, working the same hours. The woman either negotiated poorly, perhaps is in a safer area, different work hours, or some factor that has caused her to earn less, but it is not because she is a female.
In second and third world countries, I would imagine there is a huge gap.
I would suggest looking up any video of someone who is transgendered talking about their experiences. But, I will attempt to answer from my gay experience and what I know to help you understand. Mentally, typical transgender people experience within themselves a feeling of depression or not being whole. As a gay person, before I came to the realization I was gay, I felt this too, I felt like I didn't belong here that there was no one else like "me" ... often times I'd look up to the sky, thinking that maybe I was an 'alien' ...I was very young, I didn't have the words or thought process to understand that what I felt for my friend Ryan and what I felt for my friend Ashlee were two different feelings, and that one of them, I was attracted to. This later in life allowed me to understand that the reason I felt different, the reason I liked to play with glitter, make-up, barbies, etc. is because I was gay, and that's how I viewed the world. Of course I still had action figures (Xena the Warrior Princess being my favorite). Before you come out, or before you accept yourself, the world feels dark, it feels cold, it feels like you are the only one of 'your' species left and no one else will ever understand you.
For transgendered people, they know when their body isn't right. Many examples are boys who identify as girls not wanting to be called their boy name, wanting girl toys, liking girl colors, not understanding the traditional male roles in society or feeling incongruent with them. Like being gay, trans people don't have the words when they're younger, but once they're able to understand what they're feeling, they are able to understand what they're feeling is the wrong gender. If you really want to know, it's better you hear from a trans person. Watch this video, if not the whole thing, watch from 1:30 to 1:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FviqVGtOE
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So then they negotiated poorly or took a lower paying job, worked less hours, etc. If a company hires a male accountant and pays them 60,000, it would still be 60,000 if everything was mirrored but the person was a female.
If anything, the higher up we go, males are the ones being discriminated against, ex. STEM.
Ah thanks for sharing. I find it interesting that you associate barbies and glitter with being gay. Why can't you just like them outside of being gay or straight? I know colors have changed throughout time. Pink and purple are supposed to be female colors, but purple is supposed to be royal, and pink used to be viewed differently too?
Society associates them with being gay/female. I was just using it as an example that was part of my experience.
I agree with Banana, I think you understand what's going on but you're trying to be an ass about it. We all know that society places expectations/views on things like barbies and glitter and gender roles that can play with them.
The fact that you pointed out those points, just tells me that you probably didn't watch the video/care enough to be enlightened. Except you focused on the fact that I pointed out that I used glitter and barbies as a child, and I happen to be gay. Sure, my liking these things defied typical straight male child rearing, because I was gay I didn't understand what I "should" be playing with. My family never stopped me, but they laughed/thought it was cute.
I would love for children to be able to like them outside of being gay or straight, I never said you had to be a gay male to like female things. In fact if I have children, I will support whatever they want to do, whether it is typical to their gender or not.
Your questions are for society to answer, unfortunately the patriarchy has standards/ideals for what straight male children should be playing with.
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lol ok. You have nothing to prove to me, but just be careful when trying to understand someone, especially gay people, we're leery about straight people, and their history of mockery and violence towards lgbtq+ ... so. You made the decision to ask questions that had nothing to do with what I was telling you about. I would have liked you to tell us what you now understand, or what you learned from the video.
Instead you went to a point I made and made it seem as though I was being closed minded. Intentionally or not, you are the one who is framing your points this way. You can say what you want about my assumptions, but other people independent of me have noticed this as well. I assume, we're all incorrect?
@PLZLEAVEDUCKK
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@PLZLEAVEDUCKK -- Men and women do NOT make the same wage at all. Women earn $.79 to the dollar that men earn. Also, even in female dominated fields like teaching or nursing, men are more likely to be promoted before a woman even if they have less experience/ability. Look up Glass Ceiling and Glass Escalator.
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wage
wāj/Submit
noun
1.
a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.
earn
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verb
verb: earn; 3rd person present: earns; past tense: earned; past participle: earned; gerund or present participle: earning
(of a person) obtain (money) in return for labor or services.
Now tell me how they make the same "wage" but "earn" less...
https://www.aauw.org/research/the-sim...ender-pay-gap/
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