The trans community is being led to believe that there is some identifiable, geniune, and imminent threat against them. Their identity is their life, thus rejection of their identity is viewed as a belief they have no right to life. This paranoia is being made worse by a media and political ideology inciting panic and telling them to fight back, that it's okay to use physical violence on people for merely using wrong pronouns.
To them, misgendering is like calling a Black person a n****r right to their face.
The trans community needs to grow up, there should be trans people within the community speaking out and telling others that violence isn't acceptable. Where are they? Caitlyn Jenner could be someone who takes center stage as a trans spokesperson to denounce this shooting and change the culture within the community.
lol and who speaks for the "trans community" do they have some kind of NRA like lobbying entity im not aware of?
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I think part of the problem with that "community" is I don't think it is at all monolithic. I think its because its pretty obvious that some of them dont want to be affiliated with the psychos who start yelling at people at gamestop because they got misgendered etc.
I think to some degree its like saying something like "gun owner community" which certainly isnt monolithic either. Hell within that "community" we have a bunch of people who are commies who want to embrace limited gun control, but thats a far cry from what most of us here would ever want to be remotely affiliated with.
I think the extremists within the LMNOPQ community are basically "consuming all the air in the room" and any of their "peers" are afraid to speak out against their "mainstream" because they don't want to get "cancelled." Not to mention a lot of those people have enough grief going on in their lives becuase of their illness etc, adding to it isn't going to help. So they sort of suffer in silence, their opinions are not heard, etc.
It reminds me of like when you heard or watched a media personality actually interview a black person that said they agreed with donald trump.... the people that dont toe the party line are not nonexistant, but media is definitely not making them visible.