A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
On other subjects on HN (software, mostly), I find curious, questioning people, who will, for the most part, engage very seriously with the subject matter. I think this is because users here engage with software -- the creation, maintenance, collaboration, the joy and misery of it all -- frequently and with a passion for nuance.<p>When high-visibility articles on trans people show up, it&#x27;s almost inevitably when our transness -- our ability to move through the world, to exist in certain spaces, or even if we exist at all -- is the subject of debate. I don&#x27;t know how many cisgender folks here really get how fundamentally exhausting it is to have some part of your identity always be part of a debate, to be talked <i>about</i> or on rare occasions talked <i>to</i>, but almost never engaged <i>with</i> in a substantive way.<p>It&#x27;s just fear fear fear, 24&#x2F;7 -- simulating hypothetical nightmare worlds where trans rapists lurk in bathrooms and prisons, where every Olympic gold medal is taken by a man masquerading as a woman, roving hordes of red-faced trans activists screaming incoherently online at nice, well-meaning, harmless people who just want to learn.<p>I just wanted to put out there that the flattened, simplified perspectives trans people are portrayed with may not give you the whole picture, and I&#x27;d encourage people here to give perspectives from trans people the same (well, more, preferably) curiosity and interest that you might give to scare quotes and soundbites about prisons, bathrooms, and sports.