Your_Trash_Daddy t1_itzt7sg wrote
Reply to comment by Safe_Base312 in SNP minister resigns over gender recognition plans by VORTXS
It's really easy to understand, when you see that some people think they have some sort of god-given right to force others to live only in the way that they've been told by their religious leaders that people have to be.
Those leaders tell them that a made-up, giant all-encompassing Sky being wants them to do whatever the leader tells them to do. The fact that those leaders prove time and again that they themselves can make no claim to any moral high ground doesn't matter. They've been raised to believe authoritarians, punished when they didn't, and it was all done lovingly in the name of their religion.
They literally think they have the right to intervene in the in the lives of others who aren't affecting them in any way, to force those lives into a different pattern- a pattern that makes them, the perpetrator, more comfortable, and allows them to pat one another's back for having accomplished "God's work."
HutSutRawlson t1_iu0gcp7 wrote
Not to say that there’s no religious discrimination involved, but the majority of transphobic remarks I’ve seen are based on people’s interpretation of science, not religion. Homophobia definitely seems to have more of a religious bent to it than transphobia.
Your_Trash_Daddy t1_iu244vf wrote
When you say people's interpretation of science, now you're talking exactly about what I said. It's not an interpretation of science, it's just parroting what their religious leaders have told them to think. Very few, if any, are aware of any science at all. Science is just one of those things a lot of religious leaders are against - and this goes back as far as anything even vaguely approaching science has existed. It has always been negated and fought by religion.
But you know, the internet makes everyone an expert on everything, because they Googled something, without regard for the fact that Google's algorithm is designed to give them more of what they already like. Yet somehow they think this is objective. So anyone quoting science, as the reason why they are transphobic, is highly suspect. Chances are, no science was actually involved.
wpmason t1_itztoo0 wrote
“When you see that some people think they have some sort of god-given right to force others to live only in the way that they’ve been told…”
FTFY
Your_Trash_Daddy t1_itzukc4 wrote
Pretty sure an incomplete sentence is never a fix. Or perhaps it is, if you.
wpmason t1_itzuvgi wrote
It’s not an incomplete sentence, I just didn’t copy the beginning part.
>It’s really easy to understand when you see that some people think they have some sort of god.
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