jaselle

@ jaselle @lemmy.ca

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2mo ago

BC Bill M-216: Canada's worst anti-trans legislation thus far, but is it Canadian?
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jaselle @lemmy.ca 2mo ago
Well I do suspect that if they (the most ardent anti-trans activists) could find a way to entirely eradicate transgender people they would. Their rhetoric is constantly pushing the overton window to further extremes. At first it was "youth transition should require parental consent," now it's "HRT should be banned even for adults," "trans people should be legally considered their gender at birth," "trans people should not be allowed to travel internationally," "trans people should be considered mentally unstable," "agitating for trans rights should be considered terrorism," "it should be illegal to crossdress in public." I am having trouble imagining any kind of point they could agree is too extreme, but we'll see how it plays out.

2mo ago

There’s Not a Single Person on Earth Who Can’t Be Vegan — Here’s Why

I've never had vegan cheese that emulates cheese. Though some vegan cheeses are decent in their own right, but only if they are not really trying to be cheese. (I wish they'd rebrand as more generic spreads.)

2mo ago

There’s Not a Single Person on Earth Who Can’t Be Vegan — Here’s Why

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jaselle @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

you can still reduce your harm to animals by making sure to avoid cheese from factory-farmed cows. Those animals face some astonishing suffering, like living in a Saw movie. Plus, it seems plausible that animal's subjective experience of extreme pain is the same as a human's.

2mo ago

BC Bill M-216: Canada's worst anti-trans legislation thus far, but is it Canadian?

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jaselle @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

True, though I think this squeaks through by the nature that a genocide doesn't actually need to completely eradicate a population. For instance, the holocaust did not eliminate all Jews. But they can prevent or disincentivize young people from transitioning; people experience magnitudes higher dsyphoria if they transition later in life, which leads to higher suicide rates. So in effect, this could kill many people.

Also, they can encourage people to remain closeted, making it dangerous or illegal to be openly or visibly transgender. This may not be a literal killing, but you could see it as akin to cultural genocide, which was recognized as a form of genocide since as long as the term "genocide" existed. (It does sound like it could be a neologism, but it's not.)

2mo ago

BC Bill M-216: Canada's worst anti-trans legislation thus far, but is it Canadian?

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jaselle @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

ah I didn't realize this. I stand corrected.

2mo ago

BC Bill M-216: Canada's worst anti-trans legislation thus far, but is it Canadian?

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jaselle @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

This is from the OneBC party, which only has 2 members, and nobody even voted for this party in the first place. These are formerly conservative MPs which were kicked out of their own party.

Now, the conservative party is pretty anti-transgender itself, but I would not really consider anything the OneBC party brings forward to be news-worthy unless it's picked up by at least one other party.