First, anyone over 21 can conceal and carry guns https://freebeacon.com/guns/utah-axes-gun-permit-requirement/
And now this https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/02/11/utah-house-committee/
They are burning down lefties Dreams. Utah is a beautiful state but it’s looking even better!
Oh for heavens sake. I know I’m going to get a lot of flak for this but the ability for trans women to compete in sports is a civil right. They are legally and medically women. Can you imagine the furore if you forced them to compete in the male arena in a full contract sport for instance? The horror people would feel at seeing a male punching, throwing or tackling a female for instance would not be good aesthetically and may even help normalise domestic violence.
A woman is a woman is a women, trans, cis and every other flavour in between. Let’s have some common and humane sense and decency.
I know this might be tough to accept, but men cannot actually become women, no matter how many hormones they take or surgeries they have. Sex is determined by the chromosomes at birth (either XX or XY). The sooner you accept this as biological fact, the sooner you can move on with your life and find genuine enrichment in pursuits that are meaningful to you. Challenging societal gender role stereotypes is one thing, and if you want to cross dress or act more "feminine" I say go for it, but trying to force society to mold itself around a false belief that you can actually "become the other sex" has got to stop. It's not healthy for anybody, least of all the countless transgender individuals who end up harming themselves when they finally understand that transitioning did not actually solve the core emotional problems they were grappling with all along, and in the meantime they often did irreversible damage to their bodies.
Your words are violence and do direct harm to trans bodies. I don’t believe you mean any harm in the least, but are perhaps just unaware of the trans experience. Gender is a social construct anyway so tell me why anyone should be kept in the prison of a gender they were wrongfully aimed at birth? Where is the humanity? Surely you want people to feel free to express and to be who they truly are?
Please explain how words can do "direct harm to bodies." "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words can never hurt me." You are trying to intimidate and guilt trip well-meaning people into doubting themselves so that they will compromise themselves to lies. It is all sophistry, and it is a form of energetic vampirism where you cause others to deny their own perceptions and feelings purely for your benefit. If you are unhappy with yourself, then figure out why and work to improve it. I hate to tell you this, but no amount of trying to force other people to cater to you will ever make you truly love yourself or feel good about yourself. That can only come from within, when you choose to fully accept yourself regardless of other people or "society."
If gender is merely a social construct, then why would you bother going through all of the trouble of transitioning to a different gender? If it's just a social construct, then why don't you just ignore it? Why does gender matter at all to YOU?
Your own body isn't "wrongfully imprisoning you" by having a gender. Plenty of people feel uncomfortable in their bodies for countless reasons--that is a normal feeling that you are choosing to fetishize into a "movement" so that you can play the victim while lobbying major establishments for social benefits.
I have watched interviews and read forum posts with countless trans individuals who have lived to tell the tale. There are opportunists in the medical establishment who are making a fortune off of these surgeries that leave even the most popular and famous trans stars literally scarred for life both physically and emotionally, and the medical establishment doesn't even know what to do at that point because the damage has already been done. This is a relatively new and trendy phenomenon whose long term effects have yet to be revealed, but the stories I've read about post-op individuals are absolutely heartbreaking.
You are on this forum for a reason. Believe it or not, I genuinely hope that for your own sake, you will revisit some of these beliefs and see the garden path you are being led down while being used as a political pawn. And if you claim that words are violence, then surely you can see the violence in trying to force your own lack of self-acceptance down other peoples' throats and label them horrible things if they disagree with it.
See? When you try to introduce alien concepts like ‘energetic vampirism’ it’s clear that you want to veer away from the basic truth and into these obfuscatory concepts which allow you to shield your ignorance with high falutin terms that don’t really mean much at all.
Women are women and men are men. Some women were incorrectly assigned as female at birth. It’s merely claiming ownership of ones own body and of ones own gender and you should not champion the oppression of pure trans people.
Although it might seem against nature to you in your current morality, the same dehumanising and allegedly ‘scientific’ language was (and still is!) used to justify the oppression and discrimination of black and brown bodies.
All trans people want is not to be killed for being trans and to have civil rights like any other human. How many trans folk must die before they are recognised as human?