Comment by harimau777
1 year ago
Maybe I am explaining poorly. When I say that they want them to "not exist" I don't necessarily mean that they will literally be killed (although I do worry that it might eventually come to that). I mean that they will be forced out of social visibility and effectively memory holed. To give some examples:
The right is passing laws saying that you can't teach about trans people or gender in schools. Part of the job of schools is to teach kids about the various important social/cultural/ideologies that make up the world; things like history, capitalism, communism, democracy, dictatorships, the various world religions, atheism, etc. Forbidding teaching of a major element of society like transgender people is in effect an attempt to erase them from social consciousness.
The right is passing laws anti-drag laws that define obscenity so broadly that it can be used as a threat to suppress drag performance. Attacking a culture's artistic movements is a classic way to attempt to suppress it from the public sphere.
Depends how it's taught. As a parallel example, it should be no problem to teach about Christianity in a school context, in terms of informing pupils that this is what many people believe. The problem is when the principles of Christianity are taught as if it is truth.
Same for gender identity and trans. It should be fine to inform pupils that some people in our culture believe that everyone has a gender identity, and that they also believe that this is what defines if someone is a woman or man or, as is described within this belief system, neither. But teaching this as if it's a fact is problematic.
A sensible policy would ensure that the curriculum is agnostic to these beliefs.
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Why are you pasting ChatGPT responses in this thread?
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