Please do not compare the LGBT movement to the civil rights movement. Trans people are not lynched outside of schools in the States, they aren't hunted down like animals in the States. They aren't treated like second class citizens with their own parts of town in South Africa. They are being killed in third world countries, where anybody is fair game to kill based on their beliefs depending on the area. Arab Christians are being killed in the Middle East for who they are, Tibetan Muslims are being killed in Tibet for who they are. Do these groups get their own movements?
If you want to remember them on this day so be it. I choose not to. The co-morbidity of severe mental illnesses (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) in trans people pre and post transition is significantly higher than the rest of the population. The way that gender schizophrenic people deal with it is beneficial to industry as opposed to pyro-schizophrenic people, for example, whose way of dealing with it is detrimental to industry; as such pushing a positive outlook on it is extremely beneficial to industry. If you want to glorify people wanting to change their sex go ahead, I'll treat it as a mental illness and be disappointed that these people who need help are being exploited.
Their losses of life, like any other , are worthy of remembrance. I choose to remember them at a different time is all.
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[quote]Trans people are not lynched outside of schools in the States, they aren't hunted down like animals in the States. They [/quote]In many places they are and there are trans people that are murdered in the U.S, there are pastors and politicians calling for the death penalty for LGBT individuals. Everyone deserves equality and trans people are no different.
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List them.
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Iran, Saudi Arabia, several African countries, I know in Russia you can be imprisoned. You can look up the rest.
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Oh, I thought we were talking about civilized countries where crimes aren't committed everytime someone breathes.
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Crimes happen everywhere but it's important to stand up for oppressed minorities like Trans people.
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I absolutely love how you downvote everyone like a little kid throwing a tantrum when someone disagrees with you. lol. How are you expecting anyone to take you seriously do things like that?
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The downvote system is there for a reason. I'm abiding by the rules.
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I'd guess you were a politician with evading the question like that.
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You didn't ask me anything of worth, nor relevance. I don't care what you think of me, I know I'm right about this, I know I'm a good person and I know this forum is infested with terrible people.
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Few things are more destructive than a man ignoring all others, and sure of his good intentions.