Comments by "JMB" (@Vulcanerd) on "What do the Trans community need most right now? Abigail Thorn u0026 Freddy McConnell | Pod Save The UK" video.

  1. I mentioned this in the shorts clip, but I'll repeat it here. Other than all the things Nish just mentioned as well as the points made in the comments, it's also childish? There's a "You can't tell me what to do, we're comedians and nothing is off limits! You're not my dad/mum!" energy coming from these people and it's disheartening. There's also, a 'tHeSe aRe jUsT JoKeS' attitude, but it's been my experience that these are usually spouted by people as an excuse just to be dicks.
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  2. Taking a step back from the immediate issues that lgbtq+ people face, I find it always annoying when conservatives use the gender identity cudgel to say that we're not willing to face 'scientific reality' when they are confronted with something like climate change to try and muddy the waters. First of all, there's tons of scientific evidence on the side of lgbtq+, but for the sake of argument, let's say they are right. It still doesn't change the issues we are facing with the climate. What does Sarah coming out as gay or Jim coming out as transgender... have to do with warming temperatures or rising sea levels? Let's say that those on the side of lgbtq+ are, indeed, wrong. If I choose to call Jim 'her/she' b/c she prefers that or if Sarah insists I call him 'his/him', how does that hurt anything whatsoever? The flip side of that coin is, if conservatives who are in denial of climate change get their way, we face existential crises that will have us facing ever increasingly erratic weather, droughts, flooding, all things that will cost us in human lives and resources we wouldn't otherwise need to be spent. Being 'wrong' on the one side hurts no one, being wrong on the other side results in us having a bleak future.
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