Willowbae3

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[–] Willowbae3@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Actually they were able to get the survey taken down because of the sheer number of nonsense stories and things like this that people have flooded it with.

It was put back up, and this was in response people planning to do the same thing shutting it down.

I was just amazed at the quality of story, and it was a powerful in my eyes.

 

I was reading reddit and there is an anti trans think tank that is asking for tips and people are running scripts to flood it with submissions. This came from "goodgaymergirl"

I hope they have fun reading my chatgpt generated stories like this lol, hopefully it catches their attention and wastes time. (I attached it as a file and pointed to it in the character limited incident details field) at least chatgpt is good for some things.

I am writing to express my growing concern about the way gender is being discussed in my child’s school. At first, I didn’t think much of it—I trust teachers to do their jobs, and I know kids today are growing up in a very different world than I did. But over time, I started noticing little things that made me wonder if there was an agenda at play.

It started when my child, who’s in middle school, mentioned that a classmate had started using a different name. The teacher didn’t make a big deal about it, just started using the new name like it was normal. That struck me as odd. When I was in school, a name change was a big deal—something you’d need a note from home for. But here, it was treated as no different than a nickname. I started paying closer attention.

Then, a few weeks later, my child came home talking about a book they’d read in class. It wasn’t some obvious activist material—just a story about a kid figuring out who they were. But there was something subtle about it, the way it encouraged empathy for someone questioning their identity. My child didn’t seem confused or upset—if anything, they seemed thoughtful. Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that these ideas were being introduced too easily, too naturally, as if they were just… part of life.

I decided to look into the school’s curriculum, expecting to find something blatant, something I could point to and say, See? This is the problem. But what I found instead was more concerning in a different way. There was no single lesson, no obvious agenda—just an overall environment where kids weren’t being told what to think, but instead were encouraged to be kind, to listen, and to respect each other’s experiences.

I’ll admit, that made me uneasy. Shouldn’t schools be teaching facts? Shouldn’t there be more structure? The more I looked, though, the more I realized that this wasn’t about pushing any particular ideology. It was just about making sure every student felt safe.

The real tipping point came when my child brought up one of their friends—one of the kids I’d heard about before, who had started using a different name. My child said this friend seemed happier now, more comfortable. And then they asked me, 'Why would anyone have a problem with that?'

I didn’t have a good answer. I wanted to say something about how things used to be, about how the world worked when I was their age. But I realized that wasn’t really an answer at all. Things change. People change. And maybe the real problem wasn’t what the school was teaching—maybe it was what I had assumed about it before I really took the time to see.

I thought I was writing to report an issue, but now I wonder if the real issue is how quickly we assume the worst. If kids are coming home feeling safe, feeling free to be themselves, and learning to treat others with kindness, is that really something we need to be afraid of?

Doesn't captcha only exist as a click farm?

This is the way: Introduce yourself with your own pronouns, before assuming any for the other. This will trigger them to respond in kind and then you know.

This is the why: Calling someone they/them when you don't know or forgot, is ok but not best....because if someone is passing, and is called they/them, which aren't their pronouns, can raise suspicions that the person is nb, or trans, putting them in an unsafe position. If you call everyone they/them, that you think looks trans enough to have questionable pronouns, and label cis people as their gender, then this is othering. And unfortunately this is how it plays out in real life, hardly anyone "they/thems" everyone....99 percent quick scan and assign pronouns. And if they can't, they assign they/them othering many people.

If I don't get pronouns back on introduction, then I gender people based on how they look. if someone is obviously fem presenting or at least trying to, then those are the pronouns I use, and vice versa. And if someone looks androgynous guess what I use they/them.

As a binary trans woman I'd rather you guess than use they/them. Those aren't my pronouns and it's obvious that they're not.

Labels have meaning as do the pronouns that go with them

I like my gender alot, I worked hard and still do to get and keep myself passing. I would rather not to have my gender neutered by some everyone's included tucute bullshit.

They/theming everyone misgenders most people.

And the 10 years that this shit narrative has been pushed has been the false narrative that gender doesn't exist. Gender abolition is not a good thing, and idgaf about hurting the feelings of identities that have co-opted a medical condition and turned it into a fashion statement of who can have more colors in their hair, piercings in their face, dumpier clothing, and shit takes on gender theory while loudly proclaiming to be the experts shouting down actual transex people accusing them falsely of transphobia.

This is why the right loves to pushback against us. Pretty soon I'm not going to have access to life-saving medication because men with beards can claim womanhood and normalize the bulge. Or that men's rooms need tampons. That trans men can be lesbians, and that men can get pregnant. Absolutely delusional and made this community a cesspool of support for shit causes that obfuscated the need for our protection pushing binary transex persons out of the trans umbrella.

Great point, I agree with you.

 
[–] Willowbae3@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Here's a thought instead of blowing your money supporting candidates that already have access to massive amounts of cash, donate it to the Trevor project, planned parenthood or literally any nonprofit.