Comments by "Shalanaya" (@Shalanaya) on "Most Americans Support This Right GOP Is Trying To Outlaw" video.
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Men and women must have the freedom to comfortably express their own beliefs, such as the bible is not factually true, but NOT when those beliefs invalidate someone's sense of self like their gender identity they were born with, especially by using verbal violence to purposefully misgender someone, because that is when you are guilty of supporting a fascistic regime that has power over the sovereignty of an individual and the truth of who they are. This is how fascism grows by valuing belief over the the value of an individual and who they are for themselves. If you wish to have individual freedom, you have to validate differences of those individuals, once you devaluate it, you devaluate it for yourself, it is a two-way street. That's how it works. Viewpoint diversity always cancels itself out when those views devalue that diversity, it leads to fascism. If you wish to bring down corruption and oppressive regimes, you need to raise the value of an individual by a sacrifce of your own beliefs by honoring the differences of others.
It is of crucial importance to understand that there is a major difference between a religion and someone's gender identity, since it is not a belief, it is not comparable, it is who someone is that determines their safety and place in this world, it is equal to saying you are not Christian and preventing them from entering a church based on that outside authority. Trans women are women based on established facts of their gender identity developed in utero during the second trimester due to the hormonal exposure in the womb, it is a belief that someone is a woman because they have a vagina, those are not facts, it is a choice how to gender the body and categorize it that way. Gendering of the sexed bodies is a sociological ideology determined by cultures, and has roots in actual fascism as it serves the capitalist status quo and corporations as reproductive means to an end,. it is what or who you are, and it has to be valued, you can change your religious belief, not your biology and how you were wired to exist.
For example, trans women belong in female sport without any shadow of a doubt, because their body is largely within the range of female body and not male body anymore, but also because they are women based on their gender identity, it is their individuality and difference which matters here, and sport is by default based on disadvantages from the start, that means that if we took out all the taller and stronger women from the gender group, those weaker ones would also benefit, but that is not what sport is about, it is the advantages and disadvantages that diversify the gender group and empower the whole as a result. As long as we can ever evolve as a human species, trans people need to be fully integrated witin the genders they identify as in order to prevent ourselves from the fascistic system to take over - because the value of an individual and their self knowing has to go higher above someone's belief or definitions of them, otherwise they become the oppressors of those differences. If religions are violent towards others by denying and invalidating their differences, then they have no place in public, this is not the case for trans people, because they are representing the self actualization of who they are and have to be integrated based on that self knowledge without our own imposition of beliefs upon them. The same applies to abortions, every woman has a right over her own body to give or take away life. This is the kind of system we need to focus on building. It's been unstable from the start, capitalism itself is based on predatory power over others and exploitation, it was a matter of time we would get to this point.
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