pmcollectorboy: They kill themselves because of intolerance of the religious sort and other sundry kinds of hardline morality policing that make them feel like abominations instead of different ways of being a person. Even now, scientists are still struggling to figure out what is causing the rise in autism, but we have keyboard warriors acting like they've already figured it out and toss around the term as an epithet like yesteryear's use of the word "virgin".

dtgreene: Transgender children are not pushed to have surgery; in fact, there is a lot of gatekeeping one has to get through in order to be approved for surgery. In fact, getting a child approved for gender reassignment surgery is not going to happen unless the child is near adulthood and has been on hormones for a while, and hormones aren't given before the age of puberty anyway.

tinyE: As for GreasyDogMeat, after today he's probably due for a warning at the very least.

dtgreene: Also, never use "autistic" (and similar words) as an insult.

louitrilobite: The daily mail is considered particularly right wing and reactionary and in search of controversy to sell papers and return to the good old day sometime in the 50s, don't take what they say on face value. : )

DaCostaBR: You said you're used to it, and I bet you are, but I just wanted to say that you probably won't change their minds, and in the end, they can all walk away from this and forget everything you tried to teach them;

louitrilobite: No Stress : )

But thank you.

If I can just make one person begin to understand or just begin to think then everything id good, if not then I have lost nothing : )

DaCostaBR: I hope I didn't sound condescending, I'm sure you've dealt with much more of this in real life than I have from behind a computer screen.

I understand how tempting it can be to jump in and correct misinformation, I'm tempted too. Also, how often these types of conversations are more of a performance, not to budge someone from their positions, but so a third-party seeing it won't just come across unchallenged misinformation and take it for the truth.

It's just that it's easy to get caught up on it, and I know that I sometimes benefit from someone tapping me on the shoulder and telling me I can let go, that someone else will do it for me.

If you're doing it from a healthy frame of mind and not letting it upset you though, I can only say go for it. :-)

DaCostaBR: I hope I didn't sound condescending, I'm sure you've dealt with much more of this in real life than I have from behind a computer screen.

I understand how tempting it can be to jump in and correct misinformation, I'm tempted too. Also, how often these types of conversations are more of a performance, not to budge someone from their positions, but so a third-party seeing it won't just come across unchallenged misinformation and take it for the truth.

It's just that it's easy to get caught up on it, and I know that I sometimes benefit from someone tapping me on the shoulder and telling me I can let go, that someone else will do it for me.

If you're doing it from a healthy frame of mind and not letting it upset you though, I can only say go for it. :-)

GreasyDogMeat: I respect louitrilobite for her personal input and politeness. You, on the other hand, haven't offered ANYTHING.

DaCostaBR: Look, you're arguing with people who argue scientific consensus is pseudo-science because they can't fathom that science may have progressed since they were children decades ago, and left their simplistic worldview behind, and hold on to their preconceptions instead of seeking the easily available information. People who readily believe, and hold onto, every horror story they hear about trans people because it aligns with their pre-existing beliefs, even if they are easily disproven.

You said you're used to it, and I bet you are, but I just wanted to say that you probably won't change their minds, and in the end, they can all walk away from this and forget everything you tried to teach them; but given that to you it's a personal matter, it might be better to save yourself the unneeded stress.

burntout: love to be Definitely Not A Fascist while also screaming whenever a Black or a Gay gets near

love to be not mad online

burntout: theyre adding more than you tbh

GreasyDogMeat: I don't scream when either of those get near.

I do scream when idiots get near though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo
GreasyDogMeat: Love to see you show it.

louitrilobite: I'm OK : )

Thanks.

: )

louitrilobite: His!

: )

burntout: i mean youd have to post something useful first for me to quote it tbh