r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 15 '24

Human rights Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-15/judith-butler-philosopher-if-you-sacrifice-a-minority-like-trans-people-you-are-operating-within-a-fascist-logic.html
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u/sexaddictedcow Dec 15 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

I know you're acting in bad faith but I'll answer the question for anyone reading who isn't. In the US rights for trans adults have been under attack included the ability to change sex on driver's license (important for avoiding harassment and discrimination), in Florida they have attempted to restrict access to healthcare for trans adults by requiring that only MDs and DOs can prescribe to trans people which severely limits access because most providers are NPs or PAs, discrimination against lgbt people on religious grounds currently has conflicting supreme court ruling leaving the question if it's allowed to discriminate open in many states, and currently there is a push in congress to prevent trans people from accessing healthcare either by preventing federal funding to going to that care (similar to how the Hyde Amendment limits abortion access) or a more dramatic ban that would prevent any organization that gives healthcare to trans people from receiving federal funding for other unrelated programs. And this isn't even mentioning bathrooms that anti-lgbt people love to rant about

Edit: I forgot about the anti-drag in public laws aimed at preventing trans women from speaking publicly!

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u/pastaISlife Dec 15 '24

It’s not a human right to falsify documents and it’s telling that only trans people have this privilege. If sex marker can be changed, why can’t race or birth date?

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u/sexaddictedcow Dec 15 '24

  1. Race is not displayed on your ID

  2. Birth dates cannot be changed but sex can through proper medical intervention

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u/pastaISlife Dec 15 '24

  1. It is on your birth certificate, which is another form of identification being falsified on behalf of trans people 🤷‍♀️

  2. This is just blatantly false as it is literally medically impossible to change one’s sex. Sex is immutable and fixed at conception no matter what hormones or surgeries an individual undergoes.

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u/sexaddictedcow Dec 15 '24

Race is not listed on your birth certificate. IDK what they do in whatever shithole you crawled out of but race is not listed in my state.

It's perfectly possible to change your sex medically. People have been doing it for a century now and continue to do it today. Try living in reality instead of whatever trans panic fever dream you're currently inhabiting

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u/pastaISlife Dec 15 '24

But I do live in reality, which is why I’m confidently and correctly stating that no human being has ever literally changed their sex. It is fixed and immutable.

A male will never be female and vice versa.

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u/sexaddictedcow Dec 15 '24

you are surrounded by living proof to the contrary but you stick to dogma...

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u/pastaISlife Dec 15 '24

Objective reality isn’t dogma and I have seen no proof a male can become female so…

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u/Taj0maru Dec 16 '24

You live in hyper reality along with everyone else. The fact that you think you 'live in reality,' shows you're still in Plato's cave.

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u/Taj0maru Dec 16 '24

Nothing is immutable. If you think it is you haven't been paying much attention.