This might be a little too spergy of an idea, but I think there should be a thread compiling everything that counters this argument of "it doesnt affect you personally, does nothing negative to your life"
I know there's already a lot of threads including the losing people to transgenderism and things that troons ruined threads, but I'm thinking on a more general listing of everything transgenderism does that does in fact affect non-trans people
I'd say, even before we talk about how it effects us personally (and it does), just the question/argument itself is disingenuous.
I want to ask them back:
What do you care about the so-called "genocide" in Gaza? It doesn't effect you personally. Most of you never even met a single Palestinian. So why do you care?
If you are white - and most of you are - what do you care about POC? Why do you care about black people? It doesn't effect you personally. Why do you chant Black Lives Matter, what's it to you?
If all public schools start teaching creationism instead of evolution, you'd object, wouldn't you? Why do you care? It's not you getting these lessons. So what do you care?
I care first and foremost because I live in this world. You are not the only people on this planet who actually care about other people, about the state of the world, about injustice, about human rights, about the future of our society. I know you think you do, because you think you are morally superior and the ones who hold the only right and just opinions and stances, and that the other side is just stupid, evil people who just want to see trans people suffer because they are evil and bigots. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's just not true.
I care about males in women's sports, because it's unfair and can even be dangerous to the women.
I care about males in women's prisons, because I think this is simply inhumane to put males, many of whom are locked up because of acts of sexual violence, with a very vulnerable population of women. And if you say "they are prisoners, they did bad stuff, what do you care what happen to them?" I'll have to ask what do you care about the TIM inmate, that you insist he will be in women's prisons instead of the men's? What, for his safety? Comfort? It might trigger his gender dysphoria? So? He is a prisoner, he did bad stuff, what do you care?
Also, yes, I actually do care about women locked up in prisons being sexually assaulted, raped and possibly getting pregnant as a result. Believe it or not, I care.
I care about males in women's shelters for the same reasons.
I care about minor girls and so many young women who chop off their healthy breasts and go on cross-sex hormones that are very bad for their health. I care about a generation of young females mutilating themselves and destroying their health, yeah.
I care about children who are being put on puberty blockers, then on cross-sex hormones. This is an horrific abuse the devil himself would shy of. They are doing unbelievable harm to these kids, we don't even know the full extent of this harm, the full implications. The closest I could think of is putting a child through cancer treatments (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) that destroys their gonads and human growth hormone (HGH)
for no reason, then when they finish with it give them some artificial HGH and sex hormones (the sex hormones are for life). I know someone like that (who did have cancer, of course). Trust me, it isn't like natural puberty at all.
I care about science. I care about the truth. I care that so many vulnerable people getting a "treatment" that not only does not help them, but also harm them.
And so on, and so on.
Honestly, I think it comes down to the fact that they think they are the moral ones and we are just evil. Only they care, only they feel, only they are smart enough to understand, the other side? They are just dumb, brainwashed, bigoted and evil and they just want trans people to suffer, just cause.
They always deny our genuine care and concern. "You don't really care about kids, you just hate trans people"; "You don't care about teenager girls and young women, you just hate trans people"; "You don't really care about women in prison, you just hate trans people! You never cared about women in prison before", etc. They deny our humanity, our feelings, our care and empathy for other people.
That's the funny part: They say we don't see them as humans, but they don't see us as humans. The say we are the brainwashed, while they are the brainwashed ones. They say we don't understand science, meanwhile they don't believe sex is binary and think you can change sex just by taking cross-sex hormones. They mock Christians for believing in "sky daddy", meanwhile they believe in somethin that is not scientific ("gender identity") and cannot be scientific (if you can't measure something in any way, how can you prove that exists?) as if it's a natural, scientific, undeniable truth. And that's just a few of the many, many,
many ways this movement is a gaslighting, twisted thing. I have never seen a movement/ideology/ etc. that is so much the opposite of what they claim to be as the trans movement.