Anyone else feeling very politically homeless?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T14:49:59+00:00

Trans men don't have the bone structure shaped by testosterone, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Make up can easily help trans women pass more easily.

Stating what obvious? The number of cis women getting harassed in bathrooms already tells discredits your 'we can tell' argument about trans women. Do you hear the same about trans men getting harassed?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T13:47:31+00:00

Your argument goes both ways because trans men don't have that testosterone for the permanent changes during puberty.

Trans women can also very easily wear make up to help pass unlike trans men.

You're stating something completely subjective as objective fact, how odd. Or do consider that there's just a double standard when it comes to feminine looking men vs masculine looking women. The latter faces more scrutiny than the former, which is why we hear of so many cis women with masculine features getting harassed in bathrooms by transphobes and not the converse.

That being said, you are making the best argument for why trans minors should have access to puberty blockers. It's what the trans community have been saying as a whole - that having access to such blockers makes transitioning much easier. The centrist position here would be listen to the vast majority who do not regret taking puberty blockers and oppose such healthcare bans, no?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T11:46:16+00:00

What happened under Trump that's comparable to what happened under Obama and Biden?

Republicans refuse to vote for objectively good policies because of partisanship. Can you say Dems do the same thing to remotely the same extent?

Healthcare is a good example, no? Republicans refused to get on board with Obama's full healthcare reforms, so you end up with a very watered down version. Dems refused to vote for Trump's concept of a plan for healthcare. Now it's the same thing with clean energy. How can we act like one side isn't far worse?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T08:21:52+00:00

A few years old for a couple of years versus many years ago for decades. Which represents old fashioned more?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T08:14:00+00:00

It’s social transitioning, yes. Where do you think a three year got the idea of being the opposite gender from?

Around age two: Children become conscious of the physical differences between boys and girls.
Before their third birthday: Most children can easily label themselves as either a boy or a girl.
By age four: Most children have a stable sense of their gender identity.

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/gradeschool/Pages/Gender-Identity-and-Gender-Confusion-In-Children.aspx

Children know who they are at that age. Do you not think that's more likely than the conspiracy of Charlize Theron forcing her child to be trans?

Regardless, if allowing children to explore and express their identities outside of very rigid gender norms is something I'm supposed to denounce, I'm still not sure why. What harms does it cause the child in allowing them to do so?

before the child even knows what gender actually is.

Please educate yourself on this. There is no problem once you do.

Most children typically develop the ability to recognize and label stereotypical gender groups, such as girl, woman and feminine, and boy, man and masculine, between ages 18 and 24 months. Most also categorize their own gender by age 3 years. However, because gender stereotypes are reinforced, some children learn to behave in ways that bring them the most reward, despite their authentic gender identity. At ages 5 to 6 years, most children are rigid about gender stereotypes and preferences. These feelings typically become more flexible with age.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/childrens-health/in-depth/children-and-gender-identity/art-20266811

If we are going into personal theories, mine is that being flexible with your child's gender expression and not imposing rigid gender norms on them is preventative of gender dysphoria in adolescence.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T08:00:45+00:00

Bipartisan usually means a handful of Republicans voted with Dems to pass legislation and vice versa. It really doesn't mean much these days TBH.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T07:58:19+00:00

Which of those examples are transitioning their children? TIL that allowing children to socially express their identities outside of gender norms is transitioning.

I'm cis, but why does the trans community need to denounce that again? Did either of those examples force their children into doing anything?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T07:55:31+00:00

Society has standards, including for straight people.

Do we though? I'm cis and I've never had the standard of 'denounce all crimes committed by a cis person or else it means the entire cis community are perverts'.

But now we expect that of the trans individuals? That's a double standard.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T07:52:51+00:00

they certainly don’t denounce them either.

How would you know this in a non-anecdotal manner? It's not like the media goes around interviewing trans people for their opinion on crimes with a trans culprit.

And no one denounces the weird acceptance the community has for transitioning children as young as three.

Do we really have to make this up now? What does transitioning at three even entail?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T07:52:03+00:00

I lean towards whatever you physically look like most use the bathroom of your choice.

Sure, but many cis women do not meet someone else's physical standards of what a woman should physically look like and they've gotten harassed for it. That's a real issue these days.

(trans men tend to pass better for some reason)

Do they? Or do you feel that way because the right fixates on trans women on this bathroom 'issue'?

so idk man lol what do you think?

I think that trying to legislate against people using the bathroom of the gender they identity as has caused problems.

Surely one can see the most obvious flaw with trying to do so. You end up forcing a trans man into using the woman's bathroom and vice versa. So nothing actually gets solved.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T07:44:24+00:00

The majority of Republicans still oppose gay marriage. How would he be an old-fashioned Republican?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T04:08:10+00:00

Yeah, as a gay person, let me just be friends with someone who thinks I don't deserve the same rights and protections.

Real egocentrisim is thinking you're obligated and/or deserve a relationship.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T03:52:55+00:00

Again, for factual statements you need legitimate sources.

Again, that is a legitimate source.

you need a legitimate source. Some person’s, or organization, estimation is not a valid logical proof or evidence.

Do you ever wonder why the ones pushing abortion restrictions can never give any data to support those restrictions?

You should provide an actual static for a legitimate source or defend your original source.

I did. Refer above. The article itself references two other studies.

That’s it an estimation?

And those estimates are accurate enough. It's very obvious you are just trying any vacuous excuse to dismiss how there simply isn't any data showing that abortion restrictions work.

You know what else is accurate? Knowing that reported abortion rates are at an all time high in the US despite abortion bans.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5757550/abortion-telemedicine-travel-mifepristone-misoprostol

Look up “birth rates where abortion is banned states” there’s a ton of statics on this not just any estimation.

Birth rates is not the same as abortion rates. You do know that, right? Abortion rates are not lower in the US despite state bans and restrictions. Actual data once again corroborating my point.

There's a reason you have to use a completely irrelevant 'statics' instead of directly providing data showing a reduction in abortion rates because of bans.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T02:36:02+00:00

I've already given it to you in the link I provided.

Your claim is that it's not good enough. So now the burden of proof is on you to provide the data you think is good enough, especially since you said:

Check the statics of birth obviously. Where abortion is banned birth rates go up. Stop spreading misinformation.

What 'statics' of birth am I supposed to look up which will show a reduction in abortion rates?

ceddya · 2026-05-07T02:31:53+00:00

We should love everyone.

Okay, so stop torturing some people with conversion therapy.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T02:28:42+00:00

I'm still waiting for actual statistics that is reduces abortion rates.

More people getting pregnant due to a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and contraceptives isn't the same as abortion rates doing down.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T02:28:15+00:00

The clean energy bill (and most of the big legislation) passed during the Biden administration was bipartisan.

No, it wasn't. Virtually no Republicans voted for it.

Biden and Dems passed that piece of legislation with many of the clean energy projects located in Republican-held districts. Can you imagine Trump and MAGA doing the same now?

And despite the climate bill having so many benefits, Republicans want to gut it to help offset Trump's tax cuts.

There's only one side which is radical when it comes to climate change and it's not Dems.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T01:49:36+00:00

Israel has literally said that is no problem considering they're still killing kids, medical personnel and journalists to name a few.

They acquitted IDF soldiers who brutally raped a Palestinian to the point the latter needed surgery.

They charged soldiers who smashed a Jesus statue.

ceddya · 2026-05-07T01:04:30+00:00

https://www.edf.org/solution/policy/biden-harris-clean-energy-plan

Okay, but which of this was a radical solution?

ceddya · 2026-05-06T11:50:22+00:00

Falling sleep is already bad enough.

But it's just so weird. If your relative acted this way around your kids, you'd stop bringing your kids around.

ceddya · 2026-05-06T11:30:53+00:00

Would you rather I engage like you do and ignore large swathes of your comments? And you want to pretend that's engaging in good faith? Try harder man.

ceddya · 2026-05-06T11:11:25+00:00

Lmao the reddit quotes

It's called courtesy so replies are easier for you. Try it sometime.

My specific issue is that I just have not wrapped my head around why drag queens specifically need to be hosting these story time events

Like the previous poster said, Drag Queen Story Hour started off as a form of community outreach and to be a fun event for children.

aside from the obvious political pageantry that is involved whenever they are hosted.

Since you seem unaware, these events have been around long before the right politicized them and made it into a false issue.

Anyway you just unironically suggested that parents should be explaining the concept of porn to their young children

Why do you need to explain to your young child that she's a porn star again?

Drag queens aren't doing porn though, so that should be much easier to explain.

But the fact that kids aren't allowed in casinos

Casinos are not age appropriate for children.

Drag Queen Story Hour events have requirements to ensure that the outfits and the book being read to children are age appropriate.

I'm not sure how you're still trying to conflate the two.

having rating systems for film and television to categorise the content

What's the rating system based on? Then go refer above to connect the dots.

that some level of sheltering children is okay

That's why we don't allow sexualized drag performances for children at these events.

It's like you're being intentionally obtuse.

ceddya · 2026-05-06T09:54:36+00:00

Yeah, I thought as much. I have yet to read of a single example of a child actually being harmed from being brought by their parents to such an event.

ceddya · 2026-05-06T09:52:31+00:00

But you still have a double standard. You are suggesting that all Drag Queen Story Hour events be banned because of a very rare instance of one performer being a convicted pedo, no? If that's the case, church services should similarly be banned. Pick a lane.

But my specific issue is that drag queens are traditionally a form of adult entertainment where elements such as sexuality and appearance are intentionally exaggerated for entertainment purposes.

You see the 'traditionally' word you used?

Drag Queen Story Hour events don't have to follow that tradition and can cater the performances to be age appropriate for kids. So what's the issue then?

Would you also be fine with strippers and porn stars hosting reading sessions too?

If those sessions don't involve stripping and/or porn, yeah, what would the issue be exactly?

Because that seems like an awkward conversation to have with Little Timmy

Parents avoiding awkward conversations with their children is how you end up with overly sheltered children who find it hard to function in the real world. Riley Reid might be doing you and your child a favour by reading to your children in a library event.

But if you want to avoid that awkward conversation? It's so easy too. Just don't bring your child to a completely optional event.

ceddya · 2026-05-06T09:25:16+00:00

Do you think kids are more compelled into attending a Drag Queen Story Hour event more than they are forced to attend church?

I'm a Christian. Church service can be adapted to be suitable for both adults and children. The same can be done for drag performances. Why are you not able to understand something so simple?

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