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Explain Like I'm Five

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Are good. And accepting the weird or different was the way to go.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I think that att the core its the "ew!" factor combined with "i would love this but I'm too closeted and if I cannot have fun, nobody can" which is then used and abused by savvy politicians who need a scape goat for people to trample to death while they secretly steal the people blind.

I could be mistaken , though

[–] NameTaken@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think it's really just as simple as they are different and people just don't like things that are different. Compounding the fact is a lot of people don't have any first hand experience interacting with a trans person and so believe what theyre told through their favorite media source.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I want to know this too. Also why I was raised to believe that British Asians would come up the hill and storm our white middle class village, even though this somehow still hasn’t happened over thirty years on.

[–] Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago

Actually I don't know anybody who hates trans people. Tbf it's a pretty dull subject.

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