#transpobia

So apparently the world's richest baby is throwing a fit over Dead End. He and other transphobic jerks are spreading the hate, and I just want to say that Dead End was one of the best projects I've ever worked on.

I've been reading Dead End since it was DeadEndia! The animation team I managed was really nice, the producers were really helpful, and the creator Hamish Steele is actually somebody I'd worked with previously on many other little projects. I was super happy when this show got greenlit and I got to work on it.

It was my first TV show to work on, having previously mostly worked on advertising, music videos, and the occasional film. It was really great to work on something where I got to see the characters develop and grow. I was a bit wary of being in a more manager-y position as lead animator, because I thought it meant that I wouldn't get to animate as much. But my duties were pretty evenly split between reviewing and managing my team of artists, then animating on my assigned shots. It was a perfect balance, really.

At the wrap party I got to do a bunch of karaoke to the songs for the "Phantom of the Theme Park" episode (singing in a demon Pugsley voice does a number on your pipes i tell ya)

My only regret with Dead End is that Netflix didn't give it a third season. And that most of the animation had to be done during the COVID lockdown. Everything else was golden.

Needless to say, transphobic and any other kind of lgbtq-phobic people are not welcome in my circle, or in my blogs. The world is not a worse place because trans people exist (and have always existed).

« Key Findings :

Transgender people (16+) are victimized over four times more often than cisgender people. In 2017-2018, transgender people experienced 86.2 victimizations per 1,000 people compared to 21.7 victimizations per 1,000 people for cisgender people.

Transgender women and men had higher rates of violent victimization (86.1 and 107.5 per 1,000 people, respectively) than cisgender women and men (23.7 and 19.8 per 1,000 people, respectively).

One in four transgender women who were victimized thought the incident was a hate crime compared to less than one in ten cisgender women.

In 2017-2018, transgender households had higher rates of property victimization (214.1 per 1,000 households) than cisgender households (108 per 1,000 households).

About half of all violent victimizations were not reported to police. Transgender people were as likely as cisgender people to report violence to police. »

I also hate this notion that the only metric for the success of gender affirming care is a decrease in depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Those are certainly goals. But...I mean, life is tough out here even if you aren't transgender. You can feel you've had a positive outcome with your transition and still struggle with mental health. I think that is clear by the low regret rate. And even when people are able to tackle their gender dysphoria via transition, we cannot discount the effects of poor societal acceptance. Not to mention the cruel legislative onslaught currently underway.

It's like, "Yay! I'm finally who I'm meant to be!"

But also, "Ack, these transphobic dipshits are trying to kill me!"

No other treatment is held to the standard of creating shiny happy people at a 100% success rate.

And yes, drugs sometimes have side effects. All drugs. Even over-the-counter drugs like Tylenol. There is no medical treatment without risks. And if we banned every treatment that had the possibility of a bad outcome, we would have literally no medications at all. She was very serious about all the bad things that can happen with blockers and hormone therapy but didn't mention how uncommon those risks are. She didn't mention that bone density is closely monitored. And the risk of heart trouble she mentioned was for older patients getting treatment for prostate issues.

Which makes me wonder why in the world she did not at least consult an actual trans person? Or even a doctor that provides gender affirming care? She just googled everything and interpreted the data with her physics brain and didn't even think to run her interpretations by people with actual expertise.

I'm not even sure a purely scientific analysis of trans issues is possible due to so many variables not being quantifiable. You can't just toss out the politics and focus on the science. The politics are a huge part of transgender existence right now.

And I don't even know what to say about her giving credence to the "social contagion" theory. Her only evidence was a theory concocted by a single person. No studies. No peer review. When I was in high school, none of us knew anything about being queer aside from the existence of gay people. We'd never even heard the words transgender or nonbinary. And even my friends who were gay didn't even consider that as a possibility until they went to college. There just wasn't any information available to teenagers. All they knew was that something was different and they had no resources to help them figure out what that different feeling was.

Teens are not being infected by a social contagion, they just have better access to information. They can also find more support and acceptance in online communities. Not to mention any competent gender affirming care program will do extensive evaluations to rule out things like peer pressure or someone seeking attention. Contrary to conservative belief, they don't just throw hormones and puberty blockers at everyone during their first appointment.

She quickly discounted the left handed analogy because some gender affirming treatments have lasting effects. Which didn't make much sense to me. All that analogy is meant to explain is that teens are more comfortable with queer introspection and feel less pressure to repress said queerness. The huge increase in queer teens matches almost perfectly with the dawn of the information age.

She also said that biological sex is "simple" (it is not) and then handwaved the existence of intersex people as "rare." First, I think the number of intersex folks is undercounted, but also, they are just as prevalent as people with red hair. When there are 8 billion people on the planet, even small percentages add up to a lot of people.

It was just a mess of a video.

Anyone: vagina haver

Terfs:

Minorities (of any kind) having greater rates of medical conditions triggered or exacerbated by stress even after you control for factors that would limit healthcare quality is a documented phenomenon. You can read more by searching “minority stress hypothesis”. I would link something, but I want to be absolutely sure I avoid shadow bans.

He ( dave chapelle) did not saying anything derogatory. He said he agreed with Harry Potter writer . Heaven forbid you have different points of views today 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

This isn't an option btw. If you're a terf get lost.