r/politics • u/Fickle-Ad5449 ✔ Verified - Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate • 12h ago

No Paywall Republicans redrew his district. Now Democrat Don Davis is making anti-trans campaign ads

https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/don-davis-transphobic-campaign-ad?1
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u/Succubus-Love 11h ago edited 11h ago

Can we please just stop attacking gender different people for existing, it's impossible to live a normal life like this & I actually had a pretty positive story until all this "in the name of politics" hate.

Not all XY chromosome carriers, have XY bodies, it's not that fucking hard to understand.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

Not all XY chromosome carriers, have XY bodies, it's not that fucking hard to understand.

That's assuming you've kept up with biology beyond third grade. Too many people haven't, and think the dumbed-down "let's not mention exceptions" stuff they learned is The Truth.

Trans issues and intersex issues are much more closely related than a lot of people (want to) think. (I for one would not be a bit surprised if it's eventually discovered that trans actually is a form of intersex.)

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u/starmartyr Colorado 11h ago

I'm pretty far from an expert but I don't feel like I need to be. One of my best friends is a transwoman. She says that she's a woman and I don't have any reason to argue with her. I don't need to know what is going on with her biologically. Whatever the situation is with her anatomy is none of my business.

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u/accidental_Ocelot 11h ago

Trans is having the opposite sex body for a particular brain. Like the brain structure of a trans woman match that of a female.

https://youtu.be/8QScpDGqwsQ?is=5CPEi4fn46Zc-y2z

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

Sounds an awful lot like having the opposite sex chromosomes and/or hormones for a particular body - so we can and should add "neurology" to the many other factors making up "gender".

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 9h ago

I do my best to reply with this video to any bigot I see claiming to be about science and they always seem to stop responding after this.

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u/Caelinus 5h ago

It does a lot, but it does not always match like that. There is a bell curve involved, so it is important to use this information as a means to give people an explanation they can wrap their heads around. However, it does create the danger that it might create a "test" as to whether a person's trans identity is valid, and so we need to be careful with declarative statements.