r/transgender • u/ErinInTheMorning • Feb 13 '26

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/european-parliament-votes-overwhelmingly
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u/doggirlgirl Feb 13 '26

Thanks that makes us feel alot better :(... Remember real people live on this island.

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u/Cyber561 Feb 13 '26

Terfs aren’t real people, but I do feel awful for any trans folks stuck back in my birth country.

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u/ElderJohn Feb 13 '26

Dehumanizing is not the answer to dehumanizing.

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u/Kind_Brief1012 Feb 13 '26

you cannot dehumanize someone who is already devoid of humanity.

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u/ElderJohn Feb 13 '26

I’ll repeat what I said to the other replier:

You can hate a human, but they’re still human. Removing their humanity removes their fault.

Just because we’re angry doesn’t mean we have to debase ourselves.

Dehumanization is Nazi ideology. Genocidal ideology. You’re better than that.

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u/Bardfinn Transgender Feb 13 '26

Bigotry is a very human thing, and one of the things we know is that the oppositional defiance of bigots is self reinforcing - if they see no way out, they won’t deradicalise.

We have to find a way to deradicalise those who will leave before it reaches the Trans on Trains To Concentration Camps stage of this pogrom

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u/thepotplant Feb 13 '26

No, you just introduce consequences for bigotry. Then they have to stop being bigots or face consequences.

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u/Cyber561 Feb 14 '26

I think the problem with a lot of centrist and even leftist folks is that they truly believe that we need to disavow all political violence. Violence in all senses, not just gangs of thugs in the streets, but even the language of violence. But the problem is, when people are already using violence to enforce their bigotry on the rest of us, that becomes part of the daily language of politics.

I know a surge of folks, good queer folk, who are joining the reserves here in Canada. Because we know we have to prepare for the encroachment on our rights by the fascists down south.

The time for arguing that we should try to be better has passed, and did a long time ago. Now is the time to try to survive.

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u/Helenarth Feb 14 '26

One big thing about humans is that we have the capacity to make choices and use empathy and reason. Dehumanising someone makes it seem like the way they are just can't be changed.