An intrusive thought is an unwelcome, involuntary thought, image, or unpleasant idea that may become an obsession, is upsetting or distressing, and can feel difficult to manage or eliminate.
An intrusive thought is an unwelcome, involuntary thought, image, or unpleasant idea that may become an obsession, is upsetting or distressing, and can feel difficult to manage or eliminate.
It depends on whether they’re pretending not to be bigots (or are unaware that they’re bigoted). It’s easier to mask transphobia as common sense if you use nearly the right terminology.
That’s fair. I’m sure there are nefarious “centrist” type bigots who are trying to seem sensible in their hate. It’s just really hard to notice them with all the screaming psychopath type bigots.
I’m in the UK, where the majority position seems to be I accept that trans people exist, and will be polite enough to use their preferred name and pronouns, but they should be banned from sport and toilets and domestic abuse shelters and all their legal rights should be based solely off their DNA and intersex people don’t exist, and also children shouldn’t hear about any of this because every person who claimed to be trans before they were an adult changed their mind and regretted any treatment they got, and all of this is science-backed common sense and anything else is extremism, with the self-aware bigots being the second largest group.
Oh. So they’re bigots who are too cowardly to be up front about it. That’s sad.
They’ve not even thought through their position enough to be cowardly about it, they just assume that if they use the right pronouns for one trans person once, that’s sufficient proof that they’re not bigoted, and therefore any other beliefs they hold are valid, and anyone else criticising those beliefs is being unreasonable and can automatically be dismissed.
Most bigots are