• girlthing
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    The strongest predictor for someone being accepting of trans people is… knowing trans people.

    Or even knowing of trans people. I was raised in a conservative family and society. If not for access to the stories of trans people that the internet gave me, I would probably have ended up as a deeply repressed, self-hating transphobe.

    The world needs us.

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    “There’s a transgender man, who was tortured and assaulted and beaten to death. He was beaten because of the hate that people have, and I want to know why aren’t we protecting people like Sam?” Mayadev asked, The Examiner reports. “[The bill] is not solving any problems. It’s meddling in the patient-doctor relationship.”

    According to a 2024 study published by JAMA, teenagers who are prescribed puberty blockers and hormones have a high level of satisfaction, with 97% continuing treatment.

    It was this kind of information that helped to sway Larry.

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      Sadly it’s the same information that’s been out there. Are they now just looking into facts? Maybe the echo chamber is breaking down but I don’t have too much hope for the hardcore base of MAGA

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    “I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision that there was only two genders,” he explained to the assembly members. “So I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don’t know exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people have changed. So I don’t want to take up no more of your time. I’d like to apologize for being here, and I learned a very lot about this group of people.”

    Not just the willingness to accept new information and modify his beliefs, but also to apologise publicly in such an elegant manner - great to see.