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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.

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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.

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