Why the downvotes?
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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It's not an entertaining meme
Sure. That's what ignoring something is for.
I didn't downvote. But I didn't upvote either.
It's just not really a good meme at all, so it's going to get downvotes. That's what downvotes are for.
The more unusual circumstance is that it got so many upvotes despite being a crappy meme. This clearly indicates that we have a lot of Lemmy users who support trans youth. Good for us, that makes me glad. Still not good content for this particular community imho, so I didn't upvote.
The downvotes are probably more about what it’s being supported than it being a shitty meme (which I concur)
Human rights aren't politics
I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, human rights are up for political debate, since a lot of people are vehemently against them.
Gender Affirming Care for minors is by far the most controversial element of the trans rights movement, it's going to get downvotes even on relatively safe places like lemmy.
I think gender affirming care for minors has more support than trans participation in sports, for example.
EDIT:
In 2023 69% of Americans believed trans people should only be able to play on the team of the gender they were assigned at birth, according to this Gallup poll.
In 2024 62% of Americans oppose banning gender affirming care for minors in this Gallup poll.
EDIT2:
It's also a little weird to call gender affirming care for minors a controversial part of a "trans rights movement" when it's primarily supported by the mainstream medical organizations. Of course the trans rights movement wishes to oppose anti-trans legislation to ban such care, but gender affirming care for minors is not a fringe, controversial practice being pushed primarily by trans rights activists.
Here is a list of the links to statements by the medical organizations supporting gender affirming care, which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the American Psychological Association, etc.
The evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of providing gender affirming care, and the only "controversy" comes from objections pushed by anti-trans activists who lie, make bad faith arguments, and appeal to pseudo-science and debunked theories to advance their cause.
Things can be both part of a social movement and thoughoughly backed by scientific consensus: see climate change. No offesne was intended in my response.
I figured you didn't intend offense, and I'm not offended personally - just mulling over your comment and realizing several things struck me as a little wrong upon reflection.
I still think you're probably right overall that the current anti-trans moral panic (and the anti-trans activism that led to it) has resulted in the average American thinking of gender-affirming care for minors as "controversial", and that this average American also probably thinks that gender-affirming care for minors is a part of a trans rights movement.
No one should be making permanent, lasting decisions with potentially major impacts on society until after their brain has fully developed- so roughly around age 24.
By which I obviously mean no one under 24 should be allowed to have kids.
cue the Church's self-righteous and unbearably self-serving indignation
Ngl you had me there for a second.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my day job of signing up 16 year olds to multi year contracts with the military..."
For those of you saying it’s not a good meme gtfo. What would Aragorn do? He would have followed us to the end, to the very fires of Mordor. If only we had a compassionate leader like Aragorn in this fucked up world.
Go Squirrels!
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Squirrels:
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