• Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Saying you’re supportive vs. actually doing the work to listen, understand, and be supportive, are much different things. Your empathy is performative if you don’t back up your words with actions, no matter how you dress up your opinions with empathetic-sounding statements.

    Consider this: If you’re truly empathetic and open minded, why do you need to keep pointing it out?

    The fact that you present an opinion piece from media owned by special interests to support your argument is enough to see why you believe what you do.

    I have a group of friends, some of whom are trans, some of whom have medical degrees, and we have these discussions all the time. However, when someone talks about their right to exist being threatened, in a world where their right to exist is being threatened, is when you’ve decided to come in complaining about how poor you can’t engage in any polite discourse because people downvote you.

    A number of people here have told you why this is the case, but you proceed to play the victim.

    There are more than two sides, and no, the science on sports isn’t more clear than it is on gender affirming care. Even in the pub med links someone else posted, which they apparently hadn’t read in entirety, it go into how controversies around trans identities is sports has become a solution in search of a problem. You should read those links.

    I don’t know what about my post made you think I wanted or was willing to extend empathy to your point of view. Was it when I called you a moron or an idiot?