ColonizationThe U.S. state of Virginia has instituted transphobic laws since 1680, according to r/lgbt. No source, I have literally no idea why they make this stuff up

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[–]julesburm1891 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

  1. I love the people in the comments talking about they can’t find any such law...because no such law exists.
  2. Pretty sure no one is debating the existence of bisexuals. They’re very well documented in every culture from the Ancient World to the present day.
  3. My favorite comment is the idiot talking about how new planets were found so new sexualities can be found. Verifying the physical existence of a body whose effects were already evident in the solar system is the exact same thing as a a plethora of sexualities arising in one decade after people spend too much time on the internet. 🙄

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The biggest disconnect in number 3 is that sexualities exist mutually exclusively. We wouldn't noticed that people werent straight even if we couldn't put a label to it yet. Pluto, however? It is so insignificant and far away that it makes sense we'd notice Jupiter long before it. The size doesn't work as an analog to population size of a group. If anything, the lack of an alternative means we don't recognize the "default"

The concept of a predator means nothing without prey. Male is a meaningless word unless females exist. We didn't have a name for "cisgender" people because trans wasn't a thing yet. Planets exist as opposed to a lack thereof, but sexualities are only named when the second one is discovered. Sort of like how train stations are worthless until the second one is built

[–]BritishbulldogUndecided if Radfem or just TERF 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

With the rights women had, there wouldn’t have been true transwomen. Just cross-dressers. That way they keep their rights.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 10 insightful - 8 fun10 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

Ok, let's take turns making up historical events that did not happen. I'll start: Alaska was the first U.S. state to outlaw eating dessert before dinner, in 1680.

[–]Finnegan7921 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I love the T myth about how there were and always have been hordes of them forced to live in the closet despite them being a miniscule percentage of the population.

[–]SerpensInferna 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's such a weird myth, too, but I guess it gives them a sense of legitimacy instead of the tawdry truth. I've had knockdown drag out online arguments with people who insisted a wide variety of ancient pagan deities were trans and the world was a nonbinary paradise before evil White Christian Patriarchy came along and destroyed it all!@(&#!!! cue hysterics

[–]cutenoobies 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder how they get away with lies and history revisionism so very easily.

[–]PassionateIntensity 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The weirdest part is that all of us are old enough to REMEMBER these identities (except bisexuals) are less than 20 years old. Revisionist history.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

archive link: https://archive.is/nRnNf

edit: Also-- can anyone explain why that post has 2000 upvotes and only 14 comments?? Like, is that just a bunch of bots or does that sub really have that little engagement?

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The only possible reason to make this crap up would be to try and prove that they've always existed and have alwasy been the victim. I don't know why they wouldn't go a bit further back, though? To a time less documented?

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the only law this could be referring to is wearing the clothes of the opposite sex but that would be anti crossdresser, not trans.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're transing the American Civil War in the comments.