Most of us have never met a transgender person. The first time I knowingly met a transgender person was 2016, in Los Angeles, where I met Caitlyn Jenner, once celebrated as the Olympic superstar Bruce Jenner. I attended a corporate luncheon, where she was the main draw for an audience of young people (of which I was not one).
Trump and his friends have made a major issue of demonizing trans men and women, although they are a tiny proportion of the population (1%?) and threaten no one. So far as I know, they are not murderers, rapists, or members of violent gangs. What they want is to live their lives in peace, without harassment.
My view, as I have often expressed in the comments section, is that it’s not up to me or you or Trump to tell them how to live. The decisions they make are not my business nor anyone else’s aside from their parents and medical professionals. In Caitlyn’s case, she decided to transition at the age of 65, a decade ago. She is a political anomaly, as she supported Trump in the 2024 election, despite the hysteria he promoted about trans people.
Here is a better representative of a trans woman: Hannah Szabó.
A friend sent me a video of Hannah Szabó speaking at Central Synagogue in Manhattan on April 4. She is a senior at Yale. She is editor-in-chief of the Yale Historical Review and has a double major in Computing-&-Linguistics (B.S.) and Comparative Literature (B.A.).
Central Synagogue is a historic reform synagogue. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl is the first and probably the only Korean-American rabbi in the country. Both my sons celebrated their bar mitzvahs in this synagogue almost 50 years ago.
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There’s something to be said for “Live and let live.” If it’s not your life, as Tim Walz would say, “Mind your business.”
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In Biblical terms, Matthew 7: 1 Judge not, lest ye be judged. If conservatives followed this lesson from the sermon on the mount, we would be living in the America we used to have.
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Thanks you for this insightful video. Hannah was fortunate to have grown up in a progressive community in the Northeast. She would not have had the same welcoming experience in many other communities, particularly now since right wing extremism has politicized and even vilified trans individuals. While Hannah’s talk highlights what is a highly personal issue, it is the right wing with their angry indignation about other people’s lives that politicizes personal issues. They ran the same biased campaign against a woman’s right to choose which led to the overturning of Roe. Some personal issues are better decided between individuals and their healthcare professionals. The state should not be involved in these personal-medical decisions. Unfortunately, wealthy christian fascists backed by lots of dark money have allowed right leaning extremists to gain so much political power and so many judicial appointments that the courts are allowing them to impose their religious and personal views on others. We are a stronger nation when church and state are separate, and individual liberty that protects the rights of individuals to make personal decisions for themselves is the law of the land.
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Actually, most of us *have* met trans people. It’s just that they look like Hannah (i.e., like people of the gender they identify with) and they don’t wear signs announcing “I am trans”, so we don’t know it. Most people think trans women look like Caitlyn Jenner, but she transitioned much later in life, so her appearance is still strongly masculine. This is why gender affirming care needs to be provided early.
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They represent less than one half of one percent of the population. I Googled the number and then did the math.
The percentage looks like this: 0.39%. Still, MAGA and their false messiah are decimal blind.
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