- Tue May 21, 2024 10:27 am
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For example, there's a trans woman who works in my local costa. The only reason I know she is trans is because when she first started working there she'd only just started transitioning and it was harder for her to pass. Now though, a year or so later, she just looks like what she is - a young woman working in a shop, as opposed to a perverted sex predator desperate to get into women's loos.
As to 'where they come from', part of this is the whole 'why were there no left handed people in victorian times?' factor on the one side, and confirmation bias/press amplification on the other. People are more likely to feel able to come out as trans in our somewhat more enlightened times, but in the short term thanks to Tory culture wars and desperate searching for moral panic scapegoats any person or issue relating to trans rights/activists gets more attention by default. Plus even if being trans is irrelevant to a news story it gets thrown in, in the same way the Mail throws in how much the home of a murder victim was worth or if someone they don't like happens to be 'openly gay'.
davidjay wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 11:31 pm And therein lies another area of mystery to me. I have never in my life had any dealings with a trans of either sex so where, and I say this without being flippant, do they all come from?I suspect you probably have - even if, say, just in the sense of being served by someone working in a shop - but may not have realised or noticed they are trans. Because the vast majority of trans people (a) want to pass as male/female because becoming who they feel they really are is pretty much the whole point, and (b) just want to get on with their lives in peace.
For example, there's a trans woman who works in my local costa. The only reason I know she is trans is because when she first started working there she'd only just started transitioning and it was harder for her to pass. Now though, a year or so later, she just looks like what she is - a young woman working in a shop, as opposed to a perverted sex predator desperate to get into women's loos.
As to 'where they come from', part of this is the whole 'why were there no left handed people in victorian times?' factor on the one side, and confirmation bias/press amplification on the other. People are more likely to feel able to come out as trans in our somewhat more enlightened times, but in the short term thanks to Tory culture wars and desperate searching for moral panic scapegoats any person or issue relating to trans rights/activists gets more attention by default. Plus even if being trans is irrelevant to a news story it gets thrown in, in the same way the Mail throws in how much the home of a murder victim was worth or if someone they don't like happens to be 'openly gay'.