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@@rosieg6989 Your ignorance is laughable ... More pseudoscience from the trans bullies. This agenda is littered with ABUSE. Pediatric clinics across the globe have noted exponentially higher rates of preexisting mental health and neurodevelopmental diagnoses among young people requesting gender identity services. Yet it was found that for parents who knew the content of their child’s evaluation, 71.6% reported that the clinician did not explore issues of mental health, previous trauma, or any alternative causes of gender dysphoria before proceeding and 70.0% report that the clinician did not request any medical records before proceeding. We need to stop telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong, that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with their own skin. We need to stop telling children that puberty is an option. That they can choose what kind of puberty they will go through just as they can choose what clothes to wear or music to listen to. Puberty is a rite of passage to adulthood, not a disease to be mitigated. The truth is while transgenders wax on and on about quote "being their true selves" there is nothing genuine or real about them. They are living synthetic lives based on drugs and body mutilations while demanding that the world celebrate them. Some of them further exploit themselves parading their drama queen lives online hoping to be some sort of celebrity in a reality show where nothing about them is genuine or real. A high proportion of people who suffer from gender identity disorder also suffer from other mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, personality disorders and autism (see also here and here). In many of them these problems do not resolve with gender reassignment. In fact hormones and surgery deal only very superficially with what is often a very deep psychosocial problem that doesn’t lend itself to quick technological fixes. Mental health in transgender and gender-nonconforming youth retrospectively between 2006 and 2022 and found that these youths had three to 13 times the mental health conditions of their cisgender counterparts,” said the study’s lead author, Tracy A. Becerra-Culqui, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation. Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear. The FDA ordered makers of puberty blockers to add a warning about psychiatric problems to the drugs’ label after the agency received several reports of suicidal thoughts in children who were taking them. In its latest Standards of Care, released in September, WPATH notes the paucity of research supporting the long-term effectiveness of medical treatment for adolescents with gender dysphoria. As a result, the guidelines say, “a systematic review regarding outcomes of treatment in adolescents is not possible.” The Endocrine Society, in its own guidelines, acknowledges the “low” or “very low” certainty of evidence supporting its recommendations.
I can't belive the Woke went back in time and changed Jurassic Park to make the dinosaurs change sex. They probably did it the same time they went and planted references to loving women in Sappho's poetry.
It was because they used a frog DNA from a species that could change sex if there werent enough females or males in their environment wasnt it and that's why the Dinosaurs ended up doing the same?
I can't believe you don't get it. If LGB activists had children they wouldn't be pushing their beliefs on younger and younger children. Kids dont care who you bum, where you put your wang or about your authentic self.
I don't think the dinosaurs are changing gender just doing something some reptiles and amphibians can do (which was what they mentioned in the movie). Parthenogenesis where females produce young on their own. Unless I miss remember.
My mom told me I would get fat if I transitioned. Bestie I'm already fat tf you mean 😭🙏 She also claimed that I would be miserable being in the right body... yeah right 💀💀
Being forced to live as somebody that doesn't feel right to you must be even more horrible, I can't even imagine what gender dysphoria feels like... I hope you're doing well now and being true to yourself!
I put on 40 pounds after starting HRT and have literally never been happier with my body, lol. 40 pounds in the right places isn't an imposition in the slightest
@@aceandgay being a nonbinary trans kid and having looked up to him for such a long time and hearing his support for me and my community and for his love for his trans kid is so important for me- he’s the best
Isn't there a tumblr post that's someone coming up with multiple "Behold, a man" jokes about that (pro-trans, it's on tumblr iirc) "Women are people that can become pregnant and give birth!" (shows a postmenopausal woman) "Behold, a man!" just a bunch of things liek that
These people would be intersex, I believe. I’m saying this because I’ve talked to intersex people who say it’s not cool when people use intersex experiences as “cis” experiences while omitting the fact that they are intersex, especially when fighting for trans rights which should be intersex rights as well (and intersex rights means explicitly including them in our advocacy).
@@spook6394 Cis just means that your gender aligns with that which was assigned to you at birth. Ergo, some intersex people are cis, and others are not. It's true that intersex rights are a key part of the fight for bodily autonomy and must be included in advocacy.
According to transphobes, my mom wasn't a woman, even though she gave birth to two kids, cause she had a hysterectomy and didn't have a uterus for a decent chuck of her life
@@genderqueerpeerBecause they are Nazis who want to repeat history, and it’s always easier to repeat history if people don’t believe said history is true.
My cousin is an OB/GYN. She was actually the doctor who delivered me when I was born. She can confirm that assigning a newborn's sex at birth is literally just getting a cursory glance at what you can immediately see. They don't test hormonal levels, they don't look at internal genitalia, they don't check chromosomes unless there's problems during the pregnancy, and secondary sex characteristics like facial hair and the like don't even show up until puberty. She also staunchly opposes the nonconsensual surgeries that intersex babies are often subjected to. She is intimately familiar with the "basic biology" that transphobes love to go on about. And yet she still supports transgender and intersex people. It's almost as if biology isn't as simple as transphobes make it out to be.
Biology IS simple. Your chromosomes make copies. This works fine most of the time. Occasionally you’ll get a bad copy so you get mutations. Many mutations are benign and unnoticeable. Occasionally you’ll get one which has negative effects and are ‘birth defects’ - intersex falls into that category as undescended testicles, undeveloped sex organs etc can cause problems
@@mogznwazFun fact not every type of intersex is due to a genetic mutation like you described, and it isn’t always a “birth defect” that causes problems. Some people have chromosomal aneuploidy (like Turner syndrome or Klinefelter syndrome), some people have a genetic mosaicism of XX and XY cells, some people are intersex due to congenital or epigenetic factors and not genetics, etc. None of these really fit in with your “simple” biology.
Teaching that trans people exist will not turn cis kids trans, but it will teach them to be more accepting and understanding of any trans people they should happen to meet. This acceptance and understanding is exactly what anti-trans legislators are trying to prevent though.
It will do the same as showing kids that they can be a firefighter. Some will go down the path of being one. Some may be intrigued about being one and end up not becoming one. There is nothing wrong about having curiosity about being trans, also fun fact the majority of people who identify as something not cis. Still identity aligned with their agab but like 2 of my ex's don't feel comfortable with the labels and ideas associated with their agabs. My ex bf hates toxic masculinity and doesn't exactly view himself as a cis man, but still as a man. I forgot my ex gfs reasonings but they were similar. These people don't go on hormones, don't get any surgery, but still are under the trans umbrella. Including or not including this group of people as people who are trans can massively shift the % of trans people reported as well. They often don't even fully consider themselves as trans or nonbinary, all nonbinary people are trans unless they were a very rare case of assigned intersex at birth. So not only is the number of trans people likely higher for trans people who are scared of admitting it for the fear of abuse and harassment. The number is even higher if you include or don't include trans people who identify as close to their agab.
They're in denial about trans people existing. They actually think we're all cis and none of us actually exist so of course they think it'll turn cis kids trans since trans "doesn't exist". Even one person being trans is a "cis person turning trans". They're just detached from reality. Like some are intelligent and preach intolerance for perverse reasons when we're just a crutch, that's Def true. But a lot are truly that dumb that this legit makes sense in their head.
There is the problem. People who have a limited view of what male and female is. Or those who by their religious teachings only see the world in black and white don't want anyone to know that others not like them exist or have existed from the beginning of time. I had a cousin the family always talked about in hushed tones. I was around 14 when I realized "oh he's homosexual". That was in the early 1960's and that realization didn't change how I felt or thought about him. Funny thing is my father was more accepting of him then his own father.
this (saying as a transmasc dude), because transphobes' fake concern of 'protecting the children' isn't actually about protecting children in the first place, but trying to exert their will and control over children [and transphobes certainly hate trans kids and kids who do not fit into their fucked 'cishet' headcanons transphobes have of their biological children [in some instances, because not every bio child of a transphobe is able to cut contact with transphobic bio parents] who no longer speak to them]. To summarise: it was never about 'protecting' children... it's all about transphobes exerting their wills and control over a child and their self-autonomy.
Yeah... As a teacher, I'm appalled by this kind of bigotism. We teach kids equations, the history of bloody wars, the reign of ancient kings that commited genocides, the complex procedures of how a law can pass inside our democratic countries, and little bits of geology and evolution... But somehow: transgender identity is too much for kids? Come on! I was taught how the french king Clovis opened the head of his general with an axe, a quarrel about a precious vase, when I was eight years old. How is "a person born as a man wants to live as a woman" too much to understand?
I've been appalled for a very long time, but having grown up in a fundamentalist/evangelical family/church, I can't say I'm surprised. As a kid, during the 1970s-80s, I remember the hellfire and brimstone sermons covering the Bible, including the graphic, gory, and genocidal parts, but then, during fellowship hour afterward, I overheard adults complain about how graphic and gory modern media was becoming, and about how everything was going off the rails. Nothing's changed as far as the complaining goes, they always find at least one group of people to demonize and blame for all the world's problems. What's changed is now these people have larger platforms and a great deal of political clout.
As a very confused kid in the 60s and 70s (Im 67 now and tranitioned in 1992) I wish I had 1% of the info available today about being trans. The first time I realised I wasnt the only one was a throw away line from an English teacher in 5th form when we were discussing 12th Nigh. He was talking about how female parts were played by males, so Viola disguising her self as a Cesaro and falling in love with a Olivia would have been funny to the Elizabethians. He mentioned that people existed who actually changed their "sex". it was like being hit in the face with a brick.
I was 40 in El Paso, Texas. A healthcare workers at my clinic was the first nonbinary person I met. I told zhem I was trans, thinking the transitioning process was still primitive and headline news. I expected to live silently,. Zhey said, rather impatiently, "Why don't you just transition? Everyone else is." "Wait, what? WHO everyone else??" It took me a year, on this whole new planet.
I hope your face is ok after the brick XD Seriously, tho, modern information is so wonderful. I'm so glad I had access to that kind of stuff so I could figure out my sexuality
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 I think that RU-vid treats different people differently. A lot of time my comments disappear, even when I'm not using any words that weren't in the comment I'm replying to.
People who think there’s a “wrong age” to know truths about yourself are absolutely unhinged. I remember knowing I was nonbinary as early as 1st grade; nobody had even told me what a nonbinary person WAS and I had no vocabulary to describe what I was feeling, but I knew I wasn’t a girl despite looking like one. I was genuinely shocked to learn about gendered colors, clothing, topics, etc, I was uncomfortable being assigned into female-only bathrooms and groups, and I hated even being *called* a girl. Nobody explained this to me when I asked about it, so I grew up and struggled through school thinking something was wrong with me. Kids have WAY more autonomy than conservatives make it out to be, and it’s a complete disservice to assume they can just be molded into accepting anything you tell them and are “in danger” in schools. They’re not stupid, they know what makes them feel uncomfortable, and they know who and what they are.
Yep. I didn't learn trans people existed until 16, non-binary till 18, but I damn well knew at 6 that I despised being called a girl. Literally referred to puberty as torture (got laughed at by every adult who heard that), but instead of just knowing I'm trans, I felt like a broken failure. Like oh yeah, that's so much better. 🙄
Exactly!! It's so frustrating seeing people think children are just... not sentient. Or have free will. There were several signs from my childhood that I was gender non-conforming while not knowing trans people existed. Finding out they existed, however, gave me the ability to understand myself better during my preteen-to-teenage years.
Me too. I always knew that I wasn’t a girl, but I didn’t come across the term non-binary until puberty (by which point I was already facing crippling dysphoria). If I had had the language to describe my experiences then it would have saved me a lot of hardship - but somehow my dad still thinks that teaching kids that trans people exist (outside of the “they’re all just predatory men” narrative) is somehow inappropriate.
It’s not old news that -JK Rowling- She-who-shall-not-be-named is more famous for being transphobic than for being the creator of one of the most popular book series/movies.
@@17scaryscorpionsunderyourbedBeen the recent discovery for me. It definitely undermines any authority she has, and I bet it annoys her to no end. Reminds me of the stick in the mud teachers that get so bothered about a student using their legal first name
Graham Linehan tried going on a lesbian dating app with a photoshopped profile pic and get banned for being an obvious troll, twice. A bunch of KiwiFarm types also tried trolling by signing up to lesbian dating apps with no effort pics trying to make some kind of point but just ended up finding each other, taking screenshots of each other and mocking each other on their forum, just for the others on the forum to reply "But that's me!"
Yep. Reminds me of the "source" someone sent me as "proof" that cis men will pretend to be women to sneak into women's bathrooms which was...a cis man pretending to be a woman to prove it actually happened because he couldn't find any evidence of it happening. Like if you have to do the thing you are claiming happens, it doesn't happen.
Once again I feel sorry for lesbians. They really can't exist or have spaces without rando men trying to fuck with them. Like damn just leave them alone.
Reminds me of the time my little brother made a fake dating profile and only got matched with other fakes. He used a babdly photoshoped picture of nick cage. Good times.
Under the topic of trans anatomy (sort of) I met this person quite randomly and she noticed online I have a trans and pride flag on my account. Before even saying hello she immediately asked "oh, what gender are you, what's in your pants? Did you get surgery? Are you transitioning?" Never mind that I'm not even 18 yet . It was very uncomfortable to say the least.
I'm sorry you were subjected to such egregious bad manners from that random, my friend -- the only possible response to their vulgar, intrusive line of questioning would be the classic "Now why would you ask such a thing?" At the very least, that riposte provides you with a classy cover while you disappear from chat and block the offender; it's worked well for me, both online and IRL.
@@semperfi818 thank you and thanks for the tip! I play a competitive sport where the environment is extremely conservative so I've had people ask those questions many times IRL and online, I'll definitely use your line!
@@ashanenbyrogue804 I'm glad I could add a useful arrow to your quiver, friend; you'd be astonished at how often that simple question, delivered with calm conviction, will cause a bully to back off -- because only a bully would ask such rude, intrusive questions...and all bullies are cowards who can't deal with those of us who know our own worth and how to defend it. Another one that has worked for me: "It never ceases to amaze me what some people think is their business."
@@Thelastunicorngirl "Weird," sure -- especially from a stranger, I'd call it intrusive, vulgar and just plain rude, worth no more of one's precious time than a "Now why would you ask that?," or maybe "You know, it never ceases to amaze me what some people think is their business," either line delivered straight, level and with deadly calm conviction.
Hunter Schafer >>> gorgeous woman, I watched all of Euphoria and much later learned she is a trans woman playing a trans woman and I was like oh that's cool!
@@tdelioncourt1268 Didn't she say something like "nonbinary people who don't transition aren't trans"? I could swear that she was transphobic towards enby folks. Not contesting her appearance but she might not be the best trans role model.
I forget his username but there’s a trans man on TikTok who constantly gets hate messages about “really being a woman”… and the guy literally looks like a Norse god. “We can always tell”, my ass.
It also directly contradicts the one implying that trans women should be barred from beauty pageants, implying they have some kind of inherent advantage.
32:24 I agree whole heartedly. Had there been Trans awareness in the 80's when I was growing up, I would have been a man for the last 40ish years. Instead, I've been a closeted, hidden "Ultra Tom boy". I am now going on my transition journey, at 54. Top surgery is in less than 3 months. And I am looking to complete my journey very soon. It's NEVER TOO LATE! And I've never felt better about myself. I can actually LOOK at myself in a mirror and not cringe. But yes, I guess I am one of the "exploding " number of "Lefties".
Hey, congratulations! I guess you must be impatient, it is always nice to read people going for it at any age 😊 There is indeed no such thing as "Being too late" when it comes to happiness, we can only live in the present after all 😁 I may be only a 10 month baby trans at 30 going in the opposite direction, but I can totally relate to never feeling better about myself once I started my journey 😊 May you have an excellent day, and the most fulfilling things to come throughout your journey!
As a younger trans man, I just want to say thank you for being here. Trans people don't often get the privilege of knowing people in their communities that are much older than them.
Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same boat, except that I'm a trans woman, and I started my transition at age 47, a couple of years ago. In college, in the mid '90s, I was desperately trying to figure out why I felt "weird about gender". Unfortunately, no one around me pointed me in the right direction, so I just suffered in silence for decades.
not only are there trans men and cis women with a prominent laryngeal cartilage, there are trans women who DON'T have it because they were able to take puberty blockers and start estrogen before it developed. and hopefully that will become the norm as gender affirming care becomes accessible at younger ages so that no one has to go through the wrong puberty and be stuck with permanent bodily changes that don't reflect their true selves.
I, as a trans woman, went through full male puberty and still don't have one (not visible I mean) My little sister, older sister, and mother all have more prominent Adams apples than I do I've been blessed by Baphamet
the guy saying sex and gender are the same thing... ok buddy then your brain and your mind are the same thing, therefore changing your mind means causing physical changes in your brain matter and getting brain surgery alters how you think. hell, that means physical and psychological are the same thing too, right? cause if physical sex is the same as psychological gender identity...
It also just depends on build. A trans fem friend of mine just has no visible Adam's apple and never did apparently. My cis male ex doesn't have one visible. And many cis women do. For some reason in my head, I feel like there is a correlation between prominent collar bones and visible Adam's apples. Wouldn't be impossible as my guess for both is a matter of fat distribution and and muscle attachments.
a transphobic man in my work was giving me (a trans man) "tips on 'how to tell'" if someone is trans, and he said look for their adam's apple, because we have a trans woman coworker too (she's nice, I like working with her much more), and he calls her a transphobic term and misgenders her (despite me telling him to stop). so he was giving me this "advice" on noticing that "only men have adam's apples" and I was explaining that everyone has them, just despends on the individual's biological factors and hormonal levels how visible it is. he would not listen 🤦♂️ pre-T me had a prominent adam's apple, literally
when i was a kid, i was terrified of my chest growing as a teen. if i knew there was something i could take to prevent that, i would have done it. i didn't even know about my gender until college, but i always knew i didn't want a feminine chest and when i had one i knew it wasn't mine, like it wasn't supposed to be on my body? i had these feelings and thoughts before i knew gender dysphoria and trans people existed. yes now i'm a nonbinary boy and i got top surgery in college in 2014 but gosh i just imagine how much better my life would have been without ever having grown a chest that wasn't mine.
I remember being kinda forced into puberty as a kid. It was like "this is what happens, deal with it". I never understood it then and met a gay person when I was 11 and met a trans person before transitioning when I was 16 and transitioned at that time. It was then when I learned about LGBTQ+ and started to realize a lot of stuff. I am basically enby, but still trying to learn about myself more.
Kids in my Catholic school started making fun of me at age 9 and saying I was going to die because I was growing tumors(boobs) on my chest. I wwas very frightened and came home from school crying a lot.
13:17 Another reason there's suddenly a big number of trans people in the past "3-5 years" is somethign DID happen. Covid put a lot of people into isolation, leaving them alone with their thoughts and gave them a quiet place to actually think about who and what they are, and a safe space to explore that as well
I remember seeing a meme in one of Jamie's older r/egg_irl videos (from 2021, I think) which showed pictures of F1NN5TER, one with short hair in masc clothing, captioned "One week into quarantine", and one with him in a dress with long hair and makeup, captioned "One year into quarantine".
@@santosdr2Mehhh not really, y'all don't really have good enough arguments to consider. Y'all keep making statements that don't include people that are cis and I think you should fizzle out unless you actually get a good argument. Basically recognize sex is a spectrum and that trans people aren't new, frogs literally can change sex so it's neat that us humans are attempting to mimic it to be happier. We're attempting to mimic a bit of nature we never inherited, and it's working. But some are against amazing advances in science and culture, which is kinda funny because in terms of our sex and gender stuff, WE ARE SO FAR BEHIND COMPARED TO CERTAIN APES!!!
I love that you mention left handedness. My mother was beaten so badly by the residential school on the US "Indian Reservation" she grew up on. The woman has beautiful, fluid, amazing hand writing with her left hand, but never uses it except the few times I've encouraged her, because every single time she tries it brings back the trauma. SHe would rather use hastily written, sloppy handwriting she feels makes her look uneducated because she was so bleeping traumatized by her teachers.. It's very similar with gay and trans kids in so many part of the USA. They are traumatized into acting straight and cis, when the truth is they could lead much more beautiful, happy lives just being accepted for who they honestly are. I still have scars from growing up in the 90's as the "only lesbian in my school".. and the only one to date a non white or hispanic person. I don't want that for any other kid. I wasn't even a lesbian. I was told you can't be both. The reservation elders teach about Two Spirit people who are born with one body and have the soul of the other and are meant to live as the other lived. That they were women with the flesh of men, or men with the flesh of women. The ONLY shame was on the person who didn't accept that the Great Spirit created them this way to teach us about unconditional love and respect for one another.
These stories just show how you can’t force it out of someone ❤😢 a person can hide something, but their quality of life is minimal. It’s heartbreaking to see someone who wasn’t allowed to live authentically
Why would they not teach kids about sex and gender before THIRTEEN?? Most girls have already hit puberty before that. They won't have a clue what the hell is going on, and there's the whole child/teen pregnancy thing. Yikes. Not knowing how something works leads to... bad things.
Yeah, there was a similar thing in Florida, where they wouldn't teach girls about periods, until after the age where most girls have already had their first period.
Got SA at 4yo. I said it before and will say it again. The more you wait to tell kids what sex and sex characteristics are the more you open the door for sexual predator to do whatever they want, teach you whatever they want and control whatever they want. There are no age limit to discuss it it's just a matter of adapting the vocabulary.
Transphobic People : *do the same error during 2.8 million years of evolution* Trans people : it's been 2.8 million years, are y'all evolved enough now to acknowledge that i exist? Transphobic People : *throws a tantrum* Trans people : guess i'll come back in another 3 million years
Trans folks aren't even all that unheard of historically and cross-culturally. Transphobia requires essentialism, which isn't necessarily baked into human experience.
@@randomperson9732 The transphobes love to insist that trans people's existence is "ideology," when more realistically trans experiences are reality leaking through the cracks in the social practice of dividing people into sex/gender categories -- it's people's physical reality, including their biology and neurology, saying "hey, you've put me in the wrong category here." Trans experiences are more real and less a fundamentally ideological practice than transphobia. (True of individual cis people's experience, too, but that's not usually contested.)
It’s the “use common sense” defense, aka “I’ve never had to actually consider this topic I’m running on vibes and don’t want to have to change my mind”
I knew about trans men since middle school, but I only found out that trans women existed about 3 years ago because I was never exposed to it. Almost all of my friends in school were trans because I knew I identified in some way, but I felt I didn't belong and didn't think that it could go the other way. which, now feels really stupid to say, but I felt trapped and unable to express myself and still struggle with it to this day. I'm scared to express myself in my home country because I'm scared that I'm going to get shot. It makes me mad that they think we are the privileged ones when many of us are scared for our lives just walking out the door. Edit: omg. Thanks for the support. I honestly didn’t think that this was felt by so many people. I hope this helps you feel like your not alone.
Jammi, your videos gave me the confidence to come out as Bi to my family. Thank you! Edit: Thank you for 300 likes!! (This is the most I’ve gotten) Edit: 400 likes?!? (Rip my notifications. I just woke up to 17 notifications)
@@Lostforstorieshow does that have anything to do with OPs comment? 1; Of course a trans person would say transphobia is not awesome. 2; Dinosaurs being extinct has no bearing on whether people think they are awesome.
[16:47] "ruins tabletop RPGs" had me laughing so hard I was wheezing lmao Tabletop RPGs center around *collaborative* storytelling. The GM and the players decide what kind of story that is, so how in the world is people being trans having ANY impact on your RPG experience? I'm an aro/ace GM and don't feel comfortable roleplaying romantic or sexual encounters, so I've warned my players that relationships with and between NPCs will always be expressed in a platonic way with anything else being alluded to or up to player interpretation. If they didn't like that, they wouldn't be playing in my campaigns. Tell the stories you want with the people you want to tell stories with, and let everyone else do their own thing.
Also with how popular it is with trans people being involved in the Tabletop RPG scene I think it's safe to say if anything we're CREATING and SUSTAINING the scene. There's lot of indie tabletops that are made by trans people. Literally would not exist without them. That guy is just clearly salty he joined a campaign that has trans people and when he complained he got kicked for transphobia or smth.
I find that atoms apple thing so hilarious, my dad is a cis man and has never had a visible atoms apple, like his neck is smooth man, but then there's me his trans FTM son who's neck has always looked like its broken whenever I look up LMAO
Adam's apple. The name itself tells you how prevalent the stereotype is, it has been thought of as a male trait for a long time, even though it isn't exclusive to cis men.
I am intersex and i have been on both estrogen and testosterone and somehow still don't have a visible Adam's apple, so yeah, it would just be genetics! Eta: they don't want it discussed in schools because the less informed everyone is, the easier it is to keep us all boxed how they want! Edit 2: yeah my grandpa was left handed and the nuns would try to correct that, but he would just use his left hand again when they stopped looking! Edit 3: wow, the fact that they said that the eggs get put into anywhere lower than the uterus just shows how ignorant they are! Also some cis women cannot get pregnant either, so ability to conceive does not a woman make!
Re 3: BINGO!!! On another vid I wrote a poem about what defines a woman, & for everything these bigots try, there's actual living cis women who contradict it
I had to register as a republican in my state so I could vote in their primaries (the only way my vote will actually matter in my extremely conservative and gerrymandered state). It made me gag to vote for some of them, but my options were "bad" and "absolutely vile" in most cases. In general elections I always do my due diligence in researching candidates, but it always ends up being straight D in the end 😂
@@AnnaReed42 I, Internet Uncle-Gay🏳🌈, don't judge you for being strategic in your enrollment. The only reason I don't do that is because I don't want to get the Hate Propaganda from the Republikkkans. Sends my blood pressure dangerously high. We need ranked-choice voting, and no primaries in elections where no other parties are running a candidate. Enough of this Soviet one-person-on-the-ballet 💩.
19:28 I actually love the fact that this person was saying that trans women are better than cis women at looking pretty when every other time, these same people portray trans women as "men" with bad makeup and facial hair.
Half of that post is just being jealous a trans person (stereotypically women in the specific fields they're talking about) is better than them at something
When your character can be a whole different non-human species, being your own species but another gender isn't even worth blinking at. Heck, I'm sure there have been trans folks (both out and not) who've used their tabletop game characters as a safe place to try different ways to act or present, before they do it IRL.
You don't need to be trans to have compassion and empathy for trans people... I mean, you see photos of people pre- and post transition, and it's wonderful to see how much more alive and happy they are after gender affirming care. It's utterly baffling to me to see all these hateful examples, how can people think such horrible things about other people simply because they're trans?
jammie, im a trans man, i started watching you before i realized, i always felt like i didnt relate to being a girl, and you helped me know why, you helped me through out all of my trans journey, from coming out to my family to expressing myself and veing comfortable with who i am, thank you!!
An argument I’ve heard when I’ve brought up the fact that cis women can be infertile too so their definition doesn’t work is they say “no because you had to have been born with the ability regardless if you get a hysterectomy later or whatever” and my response is typically “you aren’t born fertile to begin with, and there’s still cis women that never become fertile anyways” and it gets to a point where the response ends up being just discounting anyone that is seen as an anomaly or not the “majority norm” so they clearly love excluding cis people too that don’t fit 🤷♂️
Lol, trans people always existed! I was a trans boy in the 70's and 80's , and was thrilled by the Famous Five books because there was George in it! Anyone remember him? The OG fictional trans boy, I used him to make adults understand my feelings and it helped alot. Representation is super important for kids, and I'm happy there's more of it now. I'm 56 now, and I assure anyone that I was trans BEFORE I was able to read, and not because of the George character! Transphobes are incredibly dumb 😂!
I'm a cis lesbian who went on a date with a trans woman I met on a dating app, and it was one of the best first dates I've ever been on. We talked about books and music and travel and life for hours. She made me a delicious risotto. 😋 I was kinda bummed when the relationship didn't pan out, but still remember that date fondly. 10/10 would date a trans girl again.
@@KingPhil442Cornell University, Columbia University, National Institutes of Health, Stanford Medicine, HealthNews, HealthyChildren, Zero to Three, Mayo Clinic, MedicineNet, and Caring For Kids (CPS) Man is the gender identity of the male gender, which is normally but not always based on the male sex. Woman is the gender identity of the female gender, which is normally but not always based on the female sex. However, we should look at what determines sex as well. Hormone washes determine sex, trans women go through the hormone washes of that of a female. Trans women, biologically, become female. Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study From Cambridge University: "The dispute between the transgender-rights movement and “gender-critical” activists represents a stark division in British public discourse. Although the issues of contention are numerous and require their own philosophical treatment, a core metaphysical concern underlies them. Gender-critical activists, such as Kathleen Stock, tend to argue that recognizing trans women as women requires erasing the category of biological sex. This implies that all trans women are male, and thus recognizing them as women rips female biology from the root of the category “woman.” In this article, I argue that this view is mistaken. As exogenously produced sex characteristics should count toward a person's sex classification, all trans women are (or are becoming) female."
@@katyamcadams Yeah whatever you say, nothing in the world will convince me transwomen are women, because they aren't and deep down i think they know that too
@@katyamcadams Sorry but nothing thing in the world will convince me transwomen are women, because they aren't and deep down i think they know that too
an adam's apple is just a protruding part of the larynx which is a moving part in the vocal tract. while androgenic puberty does increase the size of your vocal tract, a primarily goal of vocal feminization is to raise your larynx which usually ends up hiding your adam's apple. definitely not a great way to tell if someone's trans, its basically a harder way of just listening to their voice.
I have a deep voice (bass), but I've never had a prominent Adam's apple. I think it's just that I have a super-thick neck, and my Adam's apple is just buried down in there somewhere and not visible.
dude if I was taught as a kid about being trans and gender identity and everything I wouldn't have gone through *years* of mental health issues with depression and dissociation as soon as puberty started. It was literally like my body could sense that everything was wrong and wanted nothing to do with it. puberty blockers and early transition would have saved me so much pain and struggle. Because of all of that, I'm transitioning rather late (I'm 20 now, and am only JUST NOW coming to terms finally with being trans after YEARS of going back and forth). I would've had a *much* better life if I could've lived as a boy as soon as possible.
My mom had both dyslexia and was left-handed. When she was young both things were considered rebellious actions that needed to be beaten out of people. It broke her. For the rest of her life, she had a significantly lower level of intellectual curiosity since her instinct was anything of the sort would be instantly "rewarded" with pain. It really showed when she began developing what I suspect was dementia because she reverted to her instinctual behaviour in tune with her cognitive abilities failing. I never want ANYONE to experience anything like that again. It was horrifying and I'm educated to cope with things like that. I'm unable to imagine how bad it must feel for other people.
"what trans women look like" ...shows picture of a glam rocker from the 80s who has always been masc and whose trademark look began as an aggressive deviance from the norm
It's crazy how some people can't believe that sex and gender are different things. Like guess what, we have categorized (or tried to) people based on some physical characteristics (genitals, breasts, etc.) and we've also come up with a bunch of random societal standards for people who we've put into two different categories. Yes, we have correlated women with the female sex and men with the male sex, but since when was it biologically mandated that when we see someone with a penis we have to refer to them using he/him. Gender is merely the social construct that, while having heavy roots in the sexes, it has evolved so much more beyond that. Now we have fashion, complex languages, social standards, etc. that have contributed to the idea of gender, but they in no way impact or are determined by sex.
Even dividing sex up into categories (let alone the exact borders of those boundaries) is a social practice. And deciding whether and to what extent a trait with a difference associated with a particular division of "sex" into "sexes" counts as part of the phenomenon of "sex" that's going to be divided in the first place...
These terms aren't even precise, it was just a way to categorize the most common things, so uncommon things like people who have mixed or non-identifiable characteristics like intersex people or creatures with multiple or none at all simply didn't get a term, they were just lumped into a general 'multi' and 'sexless' categories which don't even apply to people due to how dehumanizing it is to do so. Human language and categorization is a mess in general.
Gender and sex are a spectrum after all, no part is built the same. I remember telling my siblings that for every new person there is a new sex technically but they used species as a counter argument (they are not transphobic but they sure lack a brain). How do I tell them that species and sex are quite different without hurting their feelings?
Just had an LGBTQ+ party with my 2 best friends, 1 being a transgender guy and the other an aroace girl. For context I am a gay guy, I love those 2, they are hilarious and make me feel good 😊
I'm 40, and when I went through school, we were never taught about transgender individuals. If not teaching about transgender individuals in school means no one will be trans, why the hell do I, a trans woman, exist?! Their argument just doesn't make any sense. Thank you for the video, Jamie! 💖 -Ava
Agreed, and the same goes for us asexual/aromantic folks (though I'm just in my 30s). It's just assumed we'll be attracted to *someone* eventually as we get older, and we'll 100% want to do the horizontal tango with them. I haven't heard even a peep about kids being taught that having little-to-no interest in sex and/or romance with ANYONE of ANY gender might be an option. If school sex classes are as big a factor as 'phobes and right-wingers claim, I wouldn't exist as I am now.
When I was a child in the 60s, I remember the adults in my life talking about the schools failing to discourage left-handedness. Not like it was a bad thing, though, and I had friends who knew people who were forced to be right-handed; older relatives and sometimes siblings. It all sounded silly and bad at the same time. Just like trying to force people to be the gender they're not. It's just so silly and so, SO bad.
Well, I started puberty at 9 but I didnt get sex ed classes til 12 at secondary school and to be honest, it scared the crap outta me. I thought I was watching a horror movie. I allegedly(told by witnesses) screamed, threw up then passes out. I dont remember much. I was sent home later. It was too much of shock and the most graphic film I had ever seen up to that point. I came from a Catholic home and they didnt tell me about sex. When I asked where I came from, I got told I came out of Mum's tummy which was technically correct as I am a C section baby so she didn't lie and I didn't ask further. I didnt know what Trans was until about five years ago. Yes I was that isolated from the world but back in the 80s and 90s, we were just told about Straight people(normal), Bi(confused) and Gay(evil) because CHURCH influence was still strong in families.
And that's just one reason why not teaching sex ed before 13 years old is insane (even with the stipulation that's it's only "specifics about sex") - the other of course being that predators exist... The best way to stop predators is for children to know when lines are being crossed. But I guess, for some of these "anti-groomers" that's a feature, not a bug.
Funny you talk about adam's apples.(well not haha but ya know) One of my co-works clamed to know I was trans because I don't have one and I was all ???. also side note I'm finally getting one. (its the little things)
Riley in Inside Out literally had men and women in their head while Mom had all women and Dad had all men, because even freaking Disney knows that kids’ brains are not gender coded until they reach adulthood. 🙄
i wouldn't go that far... kids clearly have an idea of their own gender from a very early age, which is why we should listen to trans kids and help them access gender-affirming care. i think riley's emotions being mixed-gender was just a reflection of how they weren't fully developed and mature yet.
@@dietotakuI agree with your take, friend -- and not only because I knew who I was by age 5 (and got blindsided by the wrong puberty at age 10, alas; as this occurred with me in the late 1960s, do the math -- alas, take 2).
@dietotaku i agree with your overall take, but what u said is not entirely true, many trans women don't realize they're trans until later in life, often by or near adulthood, or in some cases for older generations, not until they're middle-aged or so. This is largely due to comphet, or compulsive heteronormativity, as this phenomenon is especially common amongst lesbian/sapphic trans women (as well as for many other amab genderqueers living in some parts of the world/country)
@@dietotaku unfortunately I believe that in the USA we won't be able to have gender affirming care whenever the parents disagree because in our society children are the "property" of the parents. No children have autonomy until they're 18 years old. Unless we create laws that give children under 18 autonomy over their own bodies, it's never going to happen. Right now government is taking bodily autonomy away from women and are leaning towards making it illegal to have white people and black people marry. I'm afraid we're moving backwards, not forwards to my point.
Thank you, my feed has been filled with so much transphobia recently 😓 it really hurts and I'm dealing with so much internalised transphobia. Keep being a positive voice Jamie 💜
I'm not trans, but the way I've always explained to people who purposefully choose ignorance in very simplistic terms is, "Sex is biological, gender is psychological and psychological." Then many times they try to hit me with the purposefully obtuse arguments, "If you have a penis, then you're a man." So I ask them, "If a man gets into a horrific accident that causes him to lose his penis and testicles, is he still a man or is she now a woman." 9 times out of 10 they reply, "He's still a man." So then I ask them, "How is he still a man?" The vast majority of the time they reply somewhere in the neighborhood of..."It's because he was a man in his mind before he lost his penis and testicles." Then I respond, "Exactly! Gender is part of this weird, wacky and beautiful psychological construct called The Self. All someone who is trans does is make their outside part match closer to their mental part, to match closer to their Self. We don't think any different of someone who gets tattoos or piercings or dyes their hair or works out to get bigger muscles, they're simply doing the same, making their outside look closer to their inside, their Self and during that, there's a transitory period." At which point it usually boils down to them going into argle-bargle-vargle, intermixed with some scary-sounding buzzwords, to which point I say, "You can fix everything, but you can't fix stupid.", then walk away.
I love these "bad trans anatomy" videos cause it reminds me so much of my little brother. One time he asked me if trans men and trans women swap voice boxes😂 I tried to explain how trans men get deeper voices but he just looked so dumbfounded. Love him tho❤ he's trying his best
Before I knew what trans was I had dreams when I was like in 3rd grade about a machine that transferred consciousnesses between bodies Imagine if this existed irl. Trans people could literally swap bodies I had one too many dreams about something that made me have a womans body. If I knew what being trans was I would have probably came out in elementary school. Now my mom says Im not cause normally there are signs when they're a child. Like bitch you remember me playing with literally every girlie toy my cousins had? I also didn't know till highschool.
Sadly for now all uterus being used for transplants are from recently deceased individuals. When the process becomes more available I'm sure they'll open up to live donations.
@@glorpri Yeah, in junior high or maybe early high school, I imagined a machine that could rearrange cells, rewrite DNA, etc. I fantasized about that machine for the next 30+ years. I even wrote my college application essay about that machine, except that I reframed it in terms of repairing organs and curing diseases. (I made no mention of "Oh, and it could also turn me into a girl.")
There's only biological male and female because that's what I've been taught in school. There's no such thing as a Chinese alphabet because I was only taught 26 letters in school.
Actually Chinese technically dont have an alphabet or letters because its logographic not phonetic. The largest actual alphabet is either the Khmer alphabet of Cambodia with 33 consonants and 41 vowels for 74 letters or Tamil with 12 vowels 18 consonant 1 special and 216 vowel consonant combos for 247 letters (if you count the combos).
to the "sex is the same as gender" guy, i guess that means the brain is the same as the mind? and therefore if you change your mind about something you've made a physical change to your brain. if you've had brain surgery, you have altered who you are in your mind. hell, must mean physical and psychological are the same too, right? no. physical sex is not the same thing as psychological gender identity. that's WHY THERE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS.
The next level is that sex is _also_ a social practice. Dividing a phenomenon up into categories and deciding the exact boundaries between those categories (and how many you're dividing the phenomenon up into) is a social practice. So is deciding which things count as part of that phenomenon vs which are just statistically associated with it.
I completely agree with your sentiments but I like to nitpick things so I would like to point out that changing your mind will cause a (small) physical change in your brain. It requires thinking, which makes electricity move around, and I'm sure the energy from that electricity would make a few of the molecules in your brain move around a teensy tiny bit.
I'm not trying to "redefine woman" to fit me. I am trying to redefine myself to fit as a woman. I am alleviating my dysphoria. Making women be more male defeats the whole point of transitioning.
About the "sudden" raise of left-handed people and trans people alike, the fact that individuals of all age groups can get visible at once when stigmatization decreases. Other than the number of "new" members of that group being aligned with how many of them are born/old enough to tell when it has become socially acceptable.
It's really the same argument as people saying kids can't know they're gay because they're not old enough. It's just fundamentally wrong and also insulting to kids' inherent understanding of themselves and their bodies.
@@badcaseofstripes see? theirs evidence to back up the fact that trans children arent EVIL DEMONS! props to this guy. I'm not even trans and I know this is true
im friends with multiple trans women and all of them are into coding/software/game modding they didn't ruin it they just like it lol also, as a trans man, i dabble in game modding too but i suck at it tbh plus something i see a lot is men, when playing against a woman, accuse her of being trans because she's better at the game than he is it's hilarious
When someone says that something is "basic high school biology" this is what I think of: "Multiplying doesn't exist - It didn't exist when I was in 1st grade, so it isn't real. Stop trying to change math!" Just because you haven't learned/heard of something, doesn't mean it isn't real - it just means you need a better education. I didn't know the word "agender" until I was 39-40, but I have been agender all my life: my gender didn't change, just the word I use to describe it because I finally learned the right word.
I just had someone come in the comments of one of my shorts to say that they "could tell that I'm a woman." that God made me that way, and that I would never change that. I'm a cis woman. Never said or implied anything else. Transphobes literally have no idea what they are mad about.
I had a trans person show up and demand I use gender in my campaign. And by a I mean 4. But to be fair 2 cis people did too. What’s with you guys and gender?
Have you seen Joanne's latest post? It's a deeply creepy rant about kinks and talking to people about their kinks and sex lives. I feel really bad about the alleged "leftist male IRL" she mentioned. 😐
Not to mention how she also this week called Lolita (a book where an adult man kidnaps and repeatedly rapes a 12 year old girl) a great love story that she enjoys.
ijust saw someone’s comment that your videos have helped them come out to their family and it made me think how the way you and shaaba explain everything sexuality and gender related with such respect helped me open up to my mom about being nonbinary and gay and it has had a great impact on our relationship so thank you so much please keep being an amazing trans icon loveyou
Unrelated to the video but i tried binding today! I wasn't brave enough to go to uni while binded but it was insane the difference it made and how happy i felt with a flat chest.
Yay, go you! It felt like a big step for me to bind while at uni classes etc too, but probably no one noticed and definitely no one was weird enough to comment.
23:38 That kind of shit is what upsets me. As a cis woman, growing up female is a big reason why I care for the trans community so much. They are heavily impacted by sexism and toxic masculinity too. I've felt super uncomfortable in my own body, and I've felt judged for the way I present myself, and all those moments made me feel for the trans community. Plus as a tomboy who former used to only dress for the male gaze because i was so wrapped up in being feminine, I also love the trans community for helping me feel more comfortable embracing my tomboyishness.
THIS!!! Imagine being a girl who was assigned male at birth, socialised as a boy, & every day, often multiple times, whenever any weakness, softness, emotion, or failure was shown, it was called "girly". Imagine being taught from the year dot that being like a girl in any way was abhorrent & shameful, while deep inside your soul the strong feeling that you ARE a girl refuses to be suppressed. Misogyny hits trans women ten times as hard as cis, because how they feel when they express as female goes so against how boys are raised to think of anything feminine. That MUST hurt!!! Just as much as it hurts cis women to even encounter this culture, let alone be immersed in it.
the guidance for schools you talked about in this video also puts an age limit on when children can be taught about consent. children should be taught that no means no at any age, and that they do not have to consent if they do not want to. its horrid and will harm young kids.
Hi sweetheart I am a 60 year old gay man and 40 years ago the treated us the same way they are treating you now. I truly hope it won't take another 40 years for them to accept you. I love your content. I have had trans friends for the past 40 years and I whole heartedly give my support. Love always stay strong and above all stay safe.
The Jurassic Park bit was confusing, because the only thing I know about that whole series is "it's a Unix system..." But it's still funny that *you* covered it, because... dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not!
in the movies, all the cloned dinosaurs are female due to DNA splicing they did with other reptiles during the cloning process, some of the dinosuars were able to change their sex like some real life animals can do then, sicne there were males and females, they made some eggs
I remember when the terf movement was forming, before we had a word for it. Many of the seemingly normal feminists in my circle were sending me articles about how trans women aren’t women. Their arguments always included examples of sexism that they couldn’t have faced before transitioning or the physical hardships that only females face because of their reproductive systems. But it seemed so odd to me at the time and it still baffles me. It’s they’re saying that women aren’t women if we don’t face sexism and women aren’t women if we can’t be biological mothers. But THESE SAME WOMEN stood by all the NORMAL FEMINISTS when we fought against sexism and when we fought against the notion that a woman’s value comes from her reproductive abilities! Where’s that energy for the trans girlies!? I remember having the fear that our society may not be nuanced enough to see that our lack of reproductive rights, affordable menstrual products etc is rooted in sexism if our society accepts that not all people who need that are women, but then I used my logic brain and I let go of that. Maybe that’s where it started for the terfs but they couldn’t let go?
Yeah, it seems like TERFs don't like being women, if they think womanhood is only defined by suffering. I understand the obstacles that women face, but I feel that we are women in spite of those obstacles, not because of them. I see womanhood as a positive and joyful thing.
I find describing sex and gender as basically a 3 axis 3d space. One axis is Sex: male to female, with various forms of intersex in the middle. The next axis is Gender Identity: man to woman, with various forms of non-binary identities in the middle. Lastly is Gender Expression: masc to femme, with various androgynous expressions in the middle.
Hey Jamie ! I've followed your channel for a while now, and it has given a lot of confidence in being queer and non-binairy. Just wanted to say I have gotten top surgery in the last week, which I've wanted for a long time, and it's been going very well !! So thank you a lot, you and One Topic !!
I really needed this video today. I live in the States and it is getting quite scary here. I know that over a long enough timeline, progressives win, but some days are harder to get through than others
Never mind Jurassic Park, there are clownfish in the real world! The females are the largest and keep a harem of males. If something happens to the female, the largest male changes to female and takes over the group.
here's something wild to chew on: my mother has had a complete hysterectomy, _and_ gets testosterone injections. Her uterus had to be removed after c-section complications, and she was recently prescribed an absolutely miniscule amount of T (5mg a *month*) because the lack of T naturally produced by ovaries was negatively impacting her health. Does this make her a man? Less of a woman? Would you "know," if that's the case, just by looking at her? The very simple answer to all of those questions is no. And to say "a woman can have babies" excludes millions, *millions,* of actual cis women, a fragment of whom would kill to carry a baby. Your reasoning only stands to attack people you don't deem as "performing gender" good enough.
Here is something wild to chew on: gender critical and "terfs" don't say there is a check list you have to fulfill in order to be a woman. They say all that it takes to be a woman is to be adult human female. That's all. So you all can keep your beloved straw man, but this isn't what they are saying. You just have to be female. That's all. Female is being of the sex that typically produce large gametes (eggs) and able to bear offsprings. If your body is designed to do that, that's it, you are a female. You don't have to actually bear offsprings in order to be a woman, you don't even have to produce big gametes, it's enough that your body is designed to do so. It does mean, though, that no man would ever be pregnant ever, because men are males, and human males cannot, no matter what, get pregnant and birth a child. Their body is not designed to do that, so they can't. So they'd never have to worry about accidently get pregnant or getting pregnant due of rape, while for the vast majority of women before menopause, this us definitely something to worry about.
@@saoirse2963 "Female is being of the sex that typically produce large gametes (eggs) and able to beat offsprings" "Typically", so you mean, not everyone This definition an includes many, many intersex male conditions It also excludes MANY intersex women who are technically male Try again Things aren't as simple as "male and female" Thats secondary school logic Please, I beg you - just try to make a definition that incorporates everyone you'd consider female without excluding anyone you'd consider female - any exception allows for trans people Good luck
