This is getting downvoted but if a news story about a cult of transgender people going around killing people goes mainstream, with the way the political winds are blowing, that might really be game over for trans people. It’s actually particularly bad for the rationalist community if you estimate p(insane murderer | rationalist, trans).
Either way. I’m speaking for the group of people that 15 years ago would’ve been called lesbians. The young people AFAB who would’ve grown up to become lesbians 15 years ago are 1. Being medically abused—some call it mutilation and sterilization. 2. In an environment where it is taboo to note how bad this medical capitalism is affecting AFAB bodies and not helping depression-prone minds and 3. AFAB lesbians are now greatly outnumbered by the much stronger AMAB lesbians who mostly insist on being fully accepted sexual partners to the AFABs that definitionally are not attracted to AMABs.
So, it is definitely a double plus ungood time to be an AFAB lesbian. As one who experienced a better time I can attest to this based on what doesn’t seem like a good time. Thankfully the medical capitalism that exists now was not available then and so my bones are not in severe osteoporosis at a young age, I am still continent, still orgasmic and still containing the body parts which have the best chance of attracting a genuinely mutually enjoyable partner. I don’t think I would’ve continued to live otherwise. But AFAB lesbians are a definite minority in a group of highly intelligent world-shapers who tend to see things from the AMAB POV.
Basically, you’re killing us. And don’t like it being pointed out.
I think the reason for downvoting is that this is an article on a specific topic, and you are trying to derail it into a debate on a generic culture-war topic.
I can sympathize with lesbians who don’t want to be picked up by male-bodied people in their lesbian safe spaces, but that would be a different topic for a different thread. (And maybe a different website.)
This is a thread to discuss a specific group of people going around and committing murders. Until recently, this was the only thread on this topic. But there were thousands of threads all over internet about the topic you want to discuss, so it does not make sense to introduce it here.
So many violent ladies lately. Terrible time to be a lesbian.
This is getting downvoted but if a news story about a cult of transgender people going around killing people goes mainstream, with the way the political winds are blowing, that might really be game over for trans people. It’s actually particularly bad for the rationalist community if you estimate p(insane murderer | rationalist, trans).
Either way. I’m speaking for the group of people that 15 years ago would’ve been called lesbians. The young people AFAB who would’ve grown up to become lesbians 15 years ago are 1. Being medically abused—some call it mutilation and sterilization. 2. In an environment where it is taboo to note how bad this medical capitalism is affecting AFAB bodies and not helping depression-prone minds and 3. AFAB lesbians are now greatly outnumbered by the much stronger AMAB lesbians who mostly insist on being fully accepted sexual partners to the AFABs that definitionally are not attracted to AMABs.
So, it is definitely a double plus ungood time to be an AFAB lesbian. As one who experienced a better time I can attest to this based on what doesn’t seem like a good time. Thankfully the medical capitalism that exists now was not available then and so my bones are not in severe osteoporosis at a young age, I am still continent, still orgasmic and still containing the body parts which have the best chance of attracting a genuinely mutually enjoyable partner. I don’t think I would’ve continued to live otherwise. But AFAB lesbians are a definite minority in a group of highly intelligent world-shapers who tend to see things from the AMAB POV.
Basically, you’re killing us. And don’t like it being pointed out.
I think the reason for downvoting is that this is an article on a specific topic, and you are trying to derail it into a debate on a generic culture-war topic.
I can sympathize with lesbians who don’t want to be picked up by male-bodied people in their lesbian safe spaces, but that would be a different topic for a different thread. (And maybe a different website.)
This is a thread to discuss a specific group of people going around and committing murders. Until recently, this was the only thread on this topic. But there were thousands of threads all over internet about the topic you want to discuss, so it does not make sense to introduce it here.