Transphobia Must Be Confronted
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#politics #politicalcommentary #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #nancymace
Mister Rogers said "Look for the helpers", to reassure kids they could be safe. We adults can be those helpers now.
Proud helper.✊️
@@Pickn4Gold I’m part of the LGBTQ+ Community and appreciate you.
@@JosephE.Provencher I don't understand the dehumanizing. Just a punk rock kid who's always had LBGTQ friends, and most of my best friends learned english as their 2nd or 3rd language before moving to the states for many different reasons. My love for fellow humans will always beat my fear of people different than myself, and I'm always curious what I can learn from different people's experiences. We are just humans on a rock floating in space why do we need to single out minority groups instead of trying to do what we can to help each other?
We have to be dammit. We really could use more Mr. Rogers in the world.
Mister rogers also said boys are boys right from the beginning and girls are girls right from the start. Conveniently forgot that part.....
As a trans man, if bathroom bans were adopted federally, then I would be forced into women's restrooms. People distinctly read me as male in real life. It would put me in danger, and trans men have already been violently attacked for using women's restrooms.
It shows that their issue isn't about women's rights its about controlling us. The fact that they would literally be forcing men into women's spaces says it all
thats the point - they don't want us in public at all.
@@mvam75 they don't want trans people to exist, period...
But but but we always hear that the bathroom assault stories are Republican fearmongering ....
As a trans woman I totally understand your fear..to be honest thou I'm also a gen x..I Remember when coming out was a death sentence..I remember being in fear of getting found out..hating myself..if we don't do what's right now..we.could find ourselves in that hell again...not only won't I tolerate it for me...but I refuse to let them make the next generation live in the fear the way I did..we all have to stand regardless...it's fight or fall
as a trans girl thank you for standing up for us 🥺
Hang in there! You are worthy of love and safety. :)
As another trans girl 💙 I love you ✨ we all need to stick together during this rough rime 🥰
*hugs* if welcome from an agender parent of two gender nonconforming adults
Another trans girl here, YES WE DESERVE SAFETY!
As a transgender & Non Binary, I’m here for the 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️people out here 🤗🫂
I'm glad you left the Boos in that clip. Part of me worried that the folks may have been clapping for Greer's removal. Little moments like that keep a tiny ember of hope alight in my jaded little heart.
"Look for the haters" - Mr Rogers when bigots are speaking, probably.
Yea. I am hoping that they were clapping because of what she said as she was being removed, and hearing the boos helped with that.
I sent an email begging her to fight this. I'm cis... but I have a loved one who is trans. She works in a blue collar factory job. She was being sexually harassed in the mens locker room. She reported it to HR and they got her into the womens locker room. But she is terrified that is going to change. That her job is going to decide that she doesn't get to use the womens locker room now. That she will go back to being in a room full of men who are harassing her and making her feel unsafe.
I really wish she would fight this. Mace is already talking about how this rule should be passed in ALL government buildings, even school. This isn't just about McBride using the bathroom... it's going to affect all trans people.
I am terrified for my loved one and I know my terror is only a fraction of hers. She deserves to be safe. She is just trying to work and provide for her and her wife and their kids. She deserves to feel safe.
I understand why McBride doesn't want to fight this... I get it. But it's not just about her.
But I don't know... maybe I'm being selfish in the name of those I care about.
Its not selfish in the slightest. As a community we have a responsibility to fight for one another, especialy for those we love.
As a Trans women myself, I can not begin to express how much it means that we have those like yourself who care, and I am truly sorry that your loved one was sexualy harrased, its totaly unacceptable. I really hope McBride comes to her senses sooner rather then later.
For Sarah, it's a calculated move, because there are going to be even higher hills she may have to choose to die on. I remember when congress had to have a special vote to allow for an exception for long hair on the first native American congressman to take his seat. Unless things have changed, I can't imagine the battle she will have to fight to take her seat as herself in congress.
Honey, they’re going to try and off her…one of the cult. She is in so much danger , her bravery is astonishing.
My late spouse, mother of four, was attacked in a public restroom for being a man in the ladies. She had had chemotherapy and lost all her hair. She was wearing a fedora hat. She was wearing her usual shopping outfit: t-shirt, shorts and flip-flop sandals. She also had had a nephrostomy, so she had two tubes from her kidneys that fed two plastic bags, which needed to be emptied periodically. She went into the ladies. She went into a stall and closed the door behind her. Then, standing and facing the toilet, she undid the valves on the urine bags and drained them into the toilet. She flushed, put herself back together and exited the stall. She was set upon by two very angry women who accused her, at full volume, of being in the wrong bathroom. She disabused them of their misapprehension. But you know, those women never apologized. They justified and tried to maintain that they didn't do anything wrong: it was her fault.
My mother taught me that when you make a mistake, you apologize and you examine what you did and figure out how not to do it again... evidently these women were raised differently.
Trump gives them the courage to be their true selves. And they are loathsome
God, I'm so sorry for your loss. Your spouse sounds like someone I'd have loved to be friends with.
Yes. But, not to much.
Trans women are the women of women. What these patriarchal swine are doing is offering women the chance to know how it feels to be a man- to say to someone "your body, my choice". And in so doing, to invite straight women to share in their guilt and thereby to deserve what will ultimately happen to them....
How is this the fault of transwomen?????
I hate to generalize, but as a Mexican man, I will never understand my fellow ethnic minorities who stand for hate and stand against Trans people. Just a few short decades ago, WE were the groups who were being denied our basic human rights (there’s still a lot of institutional racism, but that’s another can of worms)
After our struggle, I don’t understand why somebody like me would want to pass that struggle on to anybody else. When we allow hate to win, we all lose regardless of whether our enemies realize it or not
Magneto Was Right!
Solidarity is vital. Mexicans for trans folk. Trans folk for Jews. Jews for black people. Black folk for unions. Unions for people with disabilities. People with disabilities for Mexicans. (And many other marginalized groups.) Separately we are tiny minorities. Together we are a majority. We won't always agree but we can always support fundamental rights.
@@CorwinFoundlove what you wrote.
The mindset is, "well at least I'm not one of THOSE people"
I understand what you are saying. I feel that there are some that believe that if they align with Republicans and agree with whomever Republicans currently decide to direct their irrational hatred towards (anyone but my group!), that they will then be left alone and seen as an ally of the monstrous Republicans who care more about scapegoating than actually governing. Truth is, that no marginalized group will ever be seen as an equal to the Republican base. Unless you check off every single box of being a white, christian, straight, male. Republicans absolutely believe that you are a second class citizen and they will go out of their way to create laws simply to make your lives more miserable to remind everyone else that they will never view you as equals.
Jesus this is awful. I feel so sorry for this young women. Imagine how it would feel to basically be othered or dehumanized just for wanting to use the god damn bathroom! This is just getting ridiculous and shows absolute stupidity on display from the White House. Utterly disgusting behavior from the people “representing” America. I feel so sorry for this women.
House of representatives*
I think it's out the rant Trump came with that might have done the white house part. @@JeffryBozes
@@JeffryBozes It will be the entire D.C. government pretty soon, and many states will follow their lead. We have to find a way to stop it.
White house had nothing to do with it.
I was a member of now defunct Women Who Code and we had the same vibe as the people who booed Mace. Tech gets a bad rap because of Techbros, but there are tons of LGBT+ people in tech and a lot of allies who are ready to deal with rude bigots.
I’m sure you’re aware of the trope of the trans girl coder. I have met a few 😊.
I am not exactly in tech (I study physics), but I run in the same circles; I can confirm that we are a disparate group of people. And we are all the better for it. Good ideas often come from weird and different people, and without good ideas there is no innovation.
In regard to my use of "weird people", I count myself among them. "Weird" is not meant to be derogatory here.
@@mikaeljensen4399 I think a lot of us lean into words like "weird" and "queer". I certainly do.
Can confirm, one of my best friends is in tech and through him I know a lot of his coworkers, past and present. All fantastic people and even if they don't understand, they were happy to learn and support.
A friend of mine who came out as trans in their late thirties wondered a few years ago if they were more likely to be murdered for being Jewish or murdered for being trans, and it's heartbreaking to think not only that these are real questions in today's age but that it's getting worse. The line must be drawn and held.
Trans -it's not even close.
Israel is doing its utmost to increase antisemitism though
Look down as you see them looking from the next urinal. Then back at them. Say, "it says, if you can read this, you're standing too close". 😡 SERIOUSLY! Who is kicking down bathroom stall doors and watching you do you business? How would you even know that was a trans not cis woman?
😢 why? And Caitlyn is one confusing conundrum. She is one but she can be the only one? Jenner is intolerant.
Trans people in many states are in the 8th stage. Soon to be 9th.
The deaths, under this government, may be legitimized as part of (1) escalating and often ignored hate crimes and (2) incarceration in facilities where their lives are at risk.
I wonder how Sarah McBride will respond when they make cross-dressing, even outside of performance, a "pornographic" sex crime and arrest her in Congress.
She'll serve as a sign for many that the country is no longer safe.
@@Timlagor actually, no one is justified for being an antisemite regardless of what israel does as a country/government
I am half Jewish, half black and a transwoman who transitioned when I was 17, I’m 40 now. The 3 most HATED groups all in one! I don’t pay Nancy Mace whose entire existence is her biggest DISGRACE any kind. She is an embarrassment to human kind! I’m not the person to discredit anyone’s traumatic experiences but I know for a fact especially as a 2 time rape survivor , one by 8 men and the other by 1 man that survivors of any trauma have triggers especially when the person or persons around tend to be a reflection of your attacker. Sarah by far is NOT a trigger to her, so if she really was assaulted how come her trigger isn’t Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump, Pete H, RFK jr or the person Greg Kelly on fox who was accused of rape that she just did an interview with.. why because I believe she is a liar who thinks she can fundraise more off of OTHER women’s experience with rape! The republicans are fools and they will reap what they sow someday and Nancy Mace will sooner than she thinks. Thanks to ALL ALLIES. We stand with YOU as well and together we can help one another through this next 4 years of vile and disgraceful idiots!
Saw an interview of Mace where she kept repeating "don't shame me" about SA.
He was trying to have her answer the logic that she is okay with Trump and Gaetz as if they're sexual predatorial history did not exist. She knows she's wrong. And Mace makes a mockery and insult to SA survivors.
Mace, like the rest of maga, is psychotically evil.
How disgusting is it that Mace would weaponize her alleged SA against other women? All for a fundraising opportunity... truly despicable.
Let's shake hands, I am also a Jewish trans woman but from Eastern-Europe. :) Also a n- attempted - rape survivor.
I agree! I'm a rape-surviving trans woman, too! Bigots tend to use sexual assault as an excuse for their hate crimes and discrimination, such as "bathroom bills."
Trans women unite. That bigoted woman is shaming the US in the eyes of the world. Monica Cook, you are a fighter and a survivor. Having read some comments here, I was going to say that trans is the new black and Jew and wog and...
Live long and prosper!
Trans person here, thank you for speaking on this. I don’t have the energy to watch this now but wanted to leave a comment for the algorithm and to show my appreciation. It’s videos like this that remind me that I’m not alone in this fight for myself and my trans siblings’ rights 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
I hate that you're being put through this. It is utterly illogical, it's just pure sadism. I will never ignore your fight and I will never miss an opportunity to stand with our trans community. I dont even know you, but I DO NOT SUFFER BULLIES. And those people - that's ALL they are. Just pos bullies.
@@pcdosgirlThank you. As another trans person, it means a lot to me.
You are not alone. Sending love and strength. 🏳⚧
As the mother of a 9yo trans son, who at 2yo was so confident with who he is, but now cries because he hates being "born this way," I'm with you. I'll get back to this video in time, but I can't do it just now.
Sending my love your way 🌈🩷🩵
@@Denidrakes69 You’re a great mother. Take good care of your son, and make sure to reassure him that there’s nothing wrong with who he is.
I'm in Texas. One of my oldest friends of 30+ years came out to me as a trans woman a few years ago. She was my senior prom date, even (platonically... neither of us was fully aware of how queer we were back then, going to a private Christian school 😅). Finally getting to know the _real her_ has been one of the great pleasures and privileges of my life.
_And I am TERRIFIED for her right now._ 😥
🤗 there are more of us allies out here than these bigots know. And if they come for one person, they come for us all. ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇲🇺🇲
Protect her in every way you can Honey
Trans woman here, thanks Steve I really appreciate this video. I'm so tired right now
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️💙💙💙🥰🥰🥰
Fun fact: public restrooms have existed since ancient civilization, and were unisex until the 19th century. Massachusetts was the first state to require separate restrooms for men and women in the 1880s. It's okay to poop together.
Also, criminals who want to hurt women are probably not deterred by the sign on the door.
@@mattrhodes3963 Learn to read, misogynist.
@@mattrhodes3963 The OP made no mention of the Capitol, so what is your point?
"how many women were in the capitol in the 19th century?" ... when you strain so hard to play gotcha you don't notice the canyon of ignorance you're put on display.
1. Like, on any given day or an estimate for the entire century?
2. So, when people decided segregated facilites were necessary, you're suggesting they put in places where the people being segregated never were?
3. On any given day, the answer is somewhere between dozens and thousands. People who worked there, people from the public observing proceedings of Congress (when either house is in session), individuals and groups lobbying for various causes. Photography has existed since the mid-19th century; it is a trivial effort to look up photos of people at the US Capitol for whatever time period since then. You'll see all kinds of people, in all kinds of numbers, in all parts of the building. It's a pretty big place; go check it out sometime.
The Jan. 6 rioters had no problem publicly using the halls, walls, and desks around members of the opposite gender.
as a trans woman id like to thank you for making this video and being a voice for us
THANK YOU for pointing out being anti trans is not in any way even remotely feminist. That's what makes my brain boil the most, voting for people who want to roll back the right to choose and yet calling yourself 'for the women' because you guard bathroom doors is unhinged
These people want to preserve the perceived sexual purity of (white) women, not promote actual rights for women.
Me as well. Absolutely infuriating
The transphobic Congresswoman is also not really feminist, just misandrist and misogynist. She's a TERF.
being transphobic is, in fact, inherently misogynistic. i wrote a whole paragraph in a separate comment about it, but that's why they don't care what trans men do but they are absolutely livid at the very idea of trans women.
@@dietotaku Agreed, thank you
A historical classic updated for 2025: "First they came for the trans people... and I spoke up, because I've read the rest of the damn poem!"
The thing is the historical context of that poem isn't predicated on getting people to understand the obvious lesson but a proclamation that they couldn't have possibly have predicted the leopards eating *their* faces.
And the people involved continue(d) supporting the leopards in both action and rhetoric.
@@goodpeople25 Well, those, who spoke up before it was their groups turn to disappear, just disappeared earlier. The second half of the 1930s was a Leopard-rich environment, not just in Germany, our neighbors fostered a lot of collaborators who wanted the same things as our government...
❤ this !!!
Considering America was the inspiration for Germany back in 1930s... It's very understandable we continued having this social problem here.@@caligo7918
@@caligo7918so what's your point? Wait for your turn?!
Intersex gal with a trans wife here, living in the Ozark mountains. Thank you for having twice the balls of ALL of trumps cabinet put together and standing up for what is right.
You'd be hard pressed to find even a single ball amongst all of them put together 😊
He has more than twice. 2 * 0 = 0
As a trans woman, I can understand her choice, however I don't agree with that choice. Also the logic of her reasoning kind of disregards the trans voters she supposedly will be representing from her own district/state etc.
Give an inch the bigots will take a mile.
It becomes so tiresome to be part of such a small percentage of the population, we're talking .5% to 1.14% depending on your source. Yet we get constantly scapegoated, vilified and or turned into a political issue every campaign season and then subsequently swept under the rug when it's inconvenient to stand up to these bigots.
The low number that we represent isn't a bug. It's a feature. It's very hard to demonize a group of people that are our own coworkers, neighbors, family members, classmates etc. It's hard to stay a terrified, ignorant bigot when you _know_ the group being demonized. Jews represented just 0.2% of the German population before WWII.
I engage in traditional activism but my biggest contribution in my mind is being visibly and openly trans in public. I talk about it and bring it up when appropriate. I'm open to questions and discussion of trans issues with all sorts of cis folk. Because it's a lot harder to vote for someone openly forwarding anti-trans policies when they think, "Hm. I kinda like the rest of the platform but Corwin seems a nice fellow and he was just talking the other day about this. Corwin doesn't seem like he's trying to bring about the downfall of Western Civilization. Maybe I should think a bit more about this vote."
Of course I am personally trying to bring about the fall of Western Civilization. We have a meet up the first Thursday every month. But that's neither here nor there.
As a neutral foreigner, I actually think it was a good call. I'm against the culture war in general and it shows that the ones stoking it and maintaining it are the anti-trans people. They're the ones who want to talk about genitals and bathrooms all the time, like deranged lunatics.
@@CorwinFound It was 0.8 in 1933 according to my attempt at math, it's important to remember the large number that left Germany were just as much demonized.
Also while the lower numbers are a feature in the case of selling demonization, fascism is both expansionist and entitled. I'm pretty sure Nazis at least considered countries like Austria already part of Germany and likely included eventual conquests like Poland.
In this case the US fascists have far more targets than just the open trans population that they conflate together.
It's depressing. I'm not trans but the despair i feel from their ignorance and aggression is the same. Just with less fear. I'm sorry.
@@CorwinFound but do you have jackets?
You totally get it. Thank you. We can't stand up for ourselves as Sarah McBride understands, we need you all to stand for us. Unfortunately this very rarely occurs.
I will stand with you and any other trans person in solidarity. If I see ANY restroom that's off limits to trans people, I'm pissing on the floor. I colored my hair once, so I figure I'm included in their hate. Yep, if you're trans and you need to use the bathroom, and there is ANY conflict, I'll hold up my coat for cover and you can pee right there. And then we walk away laughing and go get mimosas. Seriously, these "people" can get fucked.
🏳️⚧️SOLIDARITY and LOVE🏳️⚧️
as a trans woman it’s very based of you to refer to our identity as “correct gender” because it is very much. True
I'm a 50 year old trans woman living in Texas. I came out 3 years ago and life has been a struggle and sometimes it feels like the loneliest fight, so thank you for making a call to action for anyone who cares about us. If trans people are going to survive (literally) the next 4 years, we need allies to not only give us love and support, but to lend their voices and stand beside us. Otherwise we will be actively erased.
I applaud you, for living in the world as you truly are. Lots of us cis people never really get there, 🤪 so, you are doing great!
You have friends out here. 🤗
Gluttony for attention will get you nowhere fast.
Whatever/whoever led you to make such a decision has a lot for which to answer.
@@WAEVOICE Shows how poorly educated you are on the experience of being transgender to think it's about attention. All the trans people I know want as little of that as possible.
Thank you sir. It is SO refreshing to hear cis white, presumably straight men speaking out on behalf of trans people in general, and trans women specifically. I may not have known consciously that I am a woman for most of my life, but I also knew that I didn't exactly fit in with men either.
I was in trucking school 6 years ago, and I became friends with a cis lesbian. We were in the yard waiting on our turns to learn backing maneuvers when she asked me, "why on earth would you choose to become a woman in this society?" I told her that it was far easier for me to live as a woman in this society; with all that entails, than it was to live as a man that I knew I wasn't. She was shocked for a moment, and then said, "that makes so much sense. That would be like me trying to live as a straight woman, and pretend that I'm attracted to men."
I *LOVE* being a woman. My life never felt so right until I transitioned. I love being an inspiration to all women, trans and cis alike, when they see me driving my semi truck around the USA. I was inspired by women who were doing stereotypically male coded jobs like construction when I was a kid. I continue to be inspired when I see women out here conquering life, taking no shit from others, and loving themselves. It makes me want to be a better person.
Seeing trans men is equally inspiring because it reminds me that there is value in manhood. I don't want to seem like I *don't* value manhood, but for the majority of my life I thought that every man secretly wished that he was a woman because I couldn't imagine choosing to be a man if one could be a woman. 🤷♀️
I also want to visit the US Capital more than ever, because you better believe I'll be using the women's restrooms if I do. 🏳️⚧️💙🏳️⚧️
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As a trans person, thank you for being a good ally. We need you all so very desperately.
I am a trans man and I hate to break it to y'all, but it literally doesn't occur to a lot of people that trans men even COULD exist.
It really shows how misogyny is connected to transphobia... Anyway, this trans girl is grateful for her trans brothers! You guys are bastions of positive masculinity and a shining example for the more toxic men to hopefully learn from! :)
Which is a shame, b/c my trans bros rock. Great people all around.
Oh no, it does-- they just see you as less offensive because in their minds a "girl who wants to be a man" is fundamentally rational, while the inverse....
I know, it's pretty astounding to me that they freak out about trans women in bathrooms, but if they get their way, trans MEN will then be in their bathrooms, and then what? They are so short sighted, they act like y'all don't even exist. It's pathetic. But either way, I will have any trans person's back in a bad situation.
Which really does just go to show how little they know about the topic that they are talking about. It does seem that you guys are somewhat less common than us trans girls but you do very much exist then again on the flip side it does mean you might be less likely to be targeted. Male privilege? Bit of negative gender euphoria for you there lol
As a trans Marylander who does political commentary on another channel, thank you for adding a cis voice to the conversation in support of our community. We may only be 1% of the population, but we are 3 million people by that statistic. If we are erased it will just make the progressive movement that much weaker, let alone the human rights reasons. This is very scary for our community right now, and I'm just hoping I can continue to use my voice while inside the borders of the USA here near Baltimore.
Happy to have found your channel this morning, and you have a new supporter for your channel.
And I definitely do not want to replace women. I gave up the privilege of being a cis-het male to be a trans woman. Bodily autonomy is the root issue of both trans rights and women's reproductive rights. I will fight with cis women as long as I am allowed to stand beside them.
@@GrahamBorland-cz8cx got a source for that one?
cause you can find tons of stats for crimes against trans people.
also trans men exist, are you fine with them using the womens room?
We've already had this argument. But that time the topic was in regard to water fountains.
Do not compare us black people to those things.
@@lordmew5To water fountains!? 🤣
At least I can commend all the recycling.
Why change things much when you can just use the same few messages you've already been using to discriminate against a racial group for centuries?
There are pictures from that era showing three labeled restroom doors: "Men, Women, Colored (sic)" Yes, back then they were perfectly cool with men and women in the same restroom, as long as they were black.
@@Insightfill Ah, now the comment about water fountains makes some sense, even to someone who doesn't live in the US. 👍
Here in Australia it was mostly the aborigines who got discriminated against but in different ways. That is, when they weren't just hunted down and shot.
Someone should ask those ridiculous transphobes if they want to bring back specific bathrooms for Bl@cks, Jews, Transsexuals, etc, etc, while they're at it.
Thank you for speaking up Steve…I’m trans and newly started transitioning 2 months ago. After several anxious and fearful false starts toward this goal earlier in life, I finally committed to it, and now have really questioned myself at times as we watch this new administration gear up for office and the rhetoric which follows them. We’re stronger than all the bigots, and I know it…because of voices like yours, support like yours and your followers…and it goes back to what the great Dr. King said: “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” ❤
Good luck, my friend. You launched your boat during the onset of a hurricane. I'm rooting for you 🧭
Damn, what terrible timing to find yourself. If you ever need anything from your online siblings, feel free to reach out.
For example, my IPL machine was the best money I ever spent.
UA-cam's filter is so weird. I commiserated, offered support as an older trans person, and recommended an IPL. UA-cam decided that wasn't okay, but the disgusting things said about us get to stay up?
@@TheRatsintheWalls I agree, the filter UA-cam uses is flawed on so many levels
@@stephencooper5622
It's such a strange mess.
If you ever have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to your Auntie Rats.
I understand her trying to just get along and not get into exhausting and pointless convos about her gender the whole time.
Indeed. Trans people have more to offer the world, than just our gender identity. We have other issues we care about, too, and would like to just have the opportunity to actually get to work, do our job, and live our lives in peace. We can't be expected to pick up the gauntlet every single time some small-minded bigot decides to do a publicity stunt to amp up tensions.
I have been defending my friends rights to use facilities (locker room and bathroom) since 2003. That’s 11 years of my awareness of the bigotry towards trans folks
Thank you! I was still DEEPLY closeted back then, and didn't even know a single trans person. So in some way you have helped to pave the path that I now walk on. Much love and respect to you.
@ let’s hope we keep making it better 🥰
Btw, 2003 was 21 years ago, not 11. I know, I almost died from shock when I realized it too.
@ 😜 thanks lmao
Thank you. Realy. I genuinely worry that I will need to be strong enough all on my own in public spaces, and it is nice to hear someone calling on people to do the admitedly uncomfortable work of standing up for a marginalized group.
For a person who doesn't know much about the issue, on its face, it might seem reasonable to say, "I'm not afraid of trans women, but what if this makes it easier for predatory men to access women's spaces to hurt women?"
But the easiest way to understand that this is an issue fabricated by people who want to divide us is knowing trans people have been around forever. They have been using the bathroom of their actual gender for just as long, and there was never an issue of trans women or predatory men harming women in bathrooms or changing rooms. It wasn't a problem until bigots decided to make it a problem.
It’s such a laughably bad faith argument too. Like the argument you make in law school when you have absolutely nothing to work with.
It's part of a common conservative tactic: solving problems that don't exist. There's no substantial population of abusers pretending to be trans to gain access to women. People can tell the difference between someone who is trans and pretending to be (it's usually incredibly obvious, as they don't bother to pretend to be serious). But it would be scary if that was happening. And sadly that's enough for a lot of people to look for a 'solution'. Just like voter fraud, immigrant crime waves, late term abortions performed on a whim, and so on.
They have been around for years, and if you made a vendiagram of them and sexual predators, it would just be a circle
The most glaring flaw in that reasoning too is that, if someone is willing to commit heinous crimes unto someone else, *a law wont stop them.*
@@hannahbrown2728 like there's examples of this even now where they have to falsify cases of assault to try and make arguments like a while back when a teen girl as sexually assaulted by another teen in the girls bathroom, media particularly right wing media screamed for months that a boy who identified as trans assaulted her, the actual case tho, her ex boyfriend just walked into the bathroom despite the father and daughter both warning the school to watch him as she broke up with the boy because he was abusive and aggressive towards her, the school failed to monitor the boy and as a consequence the girl got raped by her ex boyfriend in the highschool bathroom, the attacker wasn't trans, but to the right, that had to be ignored, because if they admit a cis boy or man can just walk into women's bathrooms without any identifying as anything else at all, they admit their argument is a lie and nothing else
Thanks so much for this video. One thing that irks me is how the situation has been turned around backwards: we trans people are being portrayed as the aggressors, invading spaces that we have no claim to. But then where are OUR spaces? Has anyone ever seen a trans restroom?
It's a mark of how completely we have been banished from human society: we literally don't have a pot to piss in. But if we go looking for one, people get mad at us, as if we're not just doing what everybody else gets to do.
A further note: here in Ireland, formally, legally, we trans people have had the right to use the correct restroom for 9 years now. In that time there has not been a single instance of a trans person causing trouble for anybody. Innocent until proven guilty? In the eyes of people like Nancy Mace, trans people are always guilty, no matter how long, no matter how many times we have established our innocence.
Have you listened to the female republican state governors on this subject? They are all in favor of taking the rights away of trans, gay and any other person they feel is less human than they are. The population in these states must be some of the most horrible people on the planet.
The funny thing is, as a trans woman who uses women's bathrooms - I actually have almost no issue from other women. Only people that really seem to care are men
It's disgusting that it only happens to trans women who 'look masculine'.
Welcome to misogyny.
I'm a straight, married cis woman who happens to dislike having hair. I kept it in 2" layers in my 30s, and then switched over to 1/2" buzz cuts in my 40s. I have, unsurprisingly, been mistaken for male over the last 20 years; but not until the last few years, with all the trans panic being fed to us from the right, have people been glaring and sizing me up in the bathrooms 😑
It's ridiculous that anyone is being targeted to begin with, but their hate has unintended victims too.
Side tangent, but it'd be hilarious if people were hating on me while a trans woman was using the bathroom at the same time and being left alone because she "passes" better than me 😂
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I've been been that passing woman. It can get hilarious really quick when they realize they have no idea how to tell us apart.
@@TheRatsintheWalls oh yeah the "we can always tell" party gets hit often with not being able to tell
Nancy Mace straight up demonstrating “they will not replace us” isn’t actually meant to be meaningful. It’s a hypnotic mantra.
I wish more people would raise that trans men also exist and then they would have to use the women's facilities. Thank you!
It's so wild to me to sit there and listen to the transphobic arguments. Im trans. Have i ever harmed anyone in a bathroom? Nope. Have i, on multiple occasions, been attacked and/or threatened for minding my business and peeing? Yup.
I already wrote to my local representative... John Joyce, known Trumper... Asking him to condemn this behavior.
Please let us know if it works.
@@jeremygreen2883 good luck with it and keep the letters flowing.
As one of those invisible transmen, thank you deeply
The thing i don't get if i am using a public toilet. I am utterly oblivious to anyone else who is in there with me. i know Australian toilet stalls are a lot more private, but I still think there could be a famous celebrity dropping a number 2 in the stall next to me I wouldn't know because I am a get-get-out and don't make eye contact
Brit here and the only time I interact with my fellow cubicle occupants is to ask for loo roll when it's run out which it does a lot. I know some of the loos in the States resemble wild west saloon doors (and I have been stuck in a loo once and also kicked a door to rescue a lady also stuck in a loo once, I also needed to rescuing once from something way more embarrassing but hey ho) but even so. I also altered some transphobic gratiffi in a public loo a few times too.
If Nancy Mace did not know who Sarah McBride was, she wouldn't even bat an eye if they were in a public restroom together.
Thank you for caring. I fear there won't be enough support to prevent what's about to happen though. I worry that our rights will be used as a chip to negotiate for another group.
It’s certainly possible. But that would be a stupid trade, because without trans folks to take the heat, that next group would find itself under attack in short order. “Peace in our times”, anyone? It didn’t work then either.
This anti trans hysteria is getting out of control. I as a cis man, can go to womens bathroom and say that I am trans man assigned female at birth. Is someone going to check if that's sock in my pants?! C'mon. Let people live their lives. Be kind to one another.
Imagine some dude making you pull down your pants before you go onto the restroom and then yank ur dick to make sure it's not a prosthetic 💀 truly a nightmare for all involved whether trans or not
DEFEND TRANS PEOPLE 🏳⚧
Amen
Everytime and always
By any means neccesary
I don’t think Sarah needed to say the second part of her statement, it was unnecessary and has caused this to be more of an issue. Calling out the bigots and saying it’s wrong is all she needed to say. I’m glad I heard AOC stood up for her, but I’m not sure it will do much.
I don't know that I agree. One of the most common ways we ignore bigotry and discrimination is in the name of business. Remembering that our government is supposed to help us, not companies of and industry, is meaningful.
@ The part I meant that she didn’t need was where she said she would follow the rules. She sent a bad message with that in my opinion. She didn’t need to add that. I wouldn’t have said that and then avoided the issue as much as possible and focus on her job.
I wish she would at least have left the part of where she encouraged her peers not to engage either... Like i can ALMOST get her not wanting to, but she shouldnt have given the already shakey ground DNC a cop out.
Steve, thank you so much for using your platform to speak out about this. I’m a trans person with several trans loved ones, and we’re terrified right now, but i feel a little safer knowing there are cis allies like you standing up for us. 💜
Please write encouraging cards to the Mc Bride. Or postcards. Her bravery is keeping my family hopeful. My son is trans. When 47 won and we were lost in fear, we knew others are in more fear. She is in so much danger , and look how she shines. It’s going to get worse for her. Call her office, send correspondence.
I’m seriously afraid of her being killed by a MAGA nutcase.
She represents the only hope that my 22 year old trans son, has today.
Steve I can’t thank you enough.
🏳️⚧️❤☮️🫶🏻
I betcha Mace has managed to threaten the people in Delaware who voted for McBride.
As a nonbinary trans person, I will point out that Sarah's first priority in this situation should be to protect her safety. I'd love it if she felt safe enough to stand up to these bigots, but god forbid they hurt her! That would break my heart!
As a cisgendered man, I will never speak a word against any transman who enters my restroom. I've been too conditioned to not socialize in the restroom.
I will awkwardly make eye contact, nod, and shuffle away to wash my hands and hope that no one says a word.
As a trans woman who has grown accustomed to women friends of mine just chatting with me through the stall walls, I was pleasantly surprised when a cis woman I briefly spoke to in the store of a truck stop continued to talk to me as we entered the restroom, through the stall wall, and as we washed our hands. The normalcy of it honestly made my day.
I also know that not only would I be extremely uncomfortable in a men's restroom, but so would pretty much every man. Unless it was at a concert, and the men's room line was shorter, in which case hopefully some kind man would do what I always did and stand guard outside my stall door. 😊
I am also one of those people who were socialised not to interact with people in the public bathroom. Just ew. But to each their own. I still don't care who is peeing in the stall next to me.
Trans people are people. They are human beings. They are tax payers. They are citizens. Enough said.
I'm a transgender woman. Most of my girlfriends are straight. When I came out. A group of about ten genetic women brought me into their world. They taught me to be open and to talk with them about anything and everything. They shared personal stuff as well. They were my friends. And we cared about each other. It was a beautiful six months. We shopped for bras together. We went to parties and took surfing lessons.
Eventually I got married and moved on. But I will never forget those beautiful and kind women who asked me to stay the night. And helped to change my life.
I despair for America because the good people are losing to the bad. The latter are more energized, and more frighteningly they seem to comprise not much less than half the population.
With such a critical mass of ignorance, fear and hate being let free, the final descent to a degrading societal collapse cannot be far off.
I take solace in the fact that our country has been through worse. At least there isn’t another civil war. There will always be hate and hate will always scream louder than justice but justice always prevails eventually. As Martin Luther King Jr said: “The arc of the universe is long but curves upwards”
@@realmsthewitch8242Martin was shot in the face by the fbi. This is a fact even his family know.
You want the bad guys to face Justice you should do as Malcolm says. He was demonized for use of force and Martin even in assassination was propped up because they knew a figure like that would keep you guys docile and it worked
If I do not speak up for others, how can I expect them to speak up for me?
Thank you for being in our corner, Steve. It means a lot, particularly as a lot the folks who insisted they were allies a month ago are now eagerly throwing us under the bus.
Genitals shouldn't matter in a public restroom. If you're entering it for anything outside of the general peeing, pooping or washing your hands, then you probably shouldn't be entering one (and before anyone says anything, yes, I'd include cleaning a spill off your clothes, or "freshening up" in the vein of the "washing your hands" category)
Well, you *could* be locking up the building for the night and need to make sure that there's nobody in the restroom still, but don't mind me that's just me nitpicking...
As a european with FULL stalls this whole debate about toilets is jsut utterly ridiculous. Why should I care whats attached or not attached to the person in teh stall next to me, or who was there before me. It dsoesnt matter at all. All taht matter is: KEEP IT CLEAN and WASH YOUR HANDS. I dont get that debate. Its seriously merely noise to seem busy while not doing the job these arseholes were hired to do like...GOVERN YOUR DAMN COUNTRY! So yeah, keep stuff clean and noone should care what someones genitals are. Why are tehy even so obsessed about random peoples Genitals? It makes zero sense
I know right, literally unisex bathrooms were everywhere before this, and it was no deal at all. It shouldn't matter.
Give the people that complain, and try to ban someone from using a public restroom, their own specially secured bathroom. Since they're so concerned, their special bathroom would require presenting their genitals for thorough inspection by three armed guards, and showing certified weekly "sex test" results from their pastor or priest, before they enter.
That way, no one is being harassed about using a public bathroom, and the people that have a problem can "really be sure" about everyone using their seperate facilities. Win-Win.
Anyone remember that bathroom sign scene from Hidden Figures?
thats what ive been thinking--
You mean the scene that wasn't historically accurate but was put in to reinforce the "white savior" trope? Yeah I remember it... If only whíte people en masse would take the example of that scene and fight bigotry in all of its evíl forms then maybe things would be much better than what they already are.
You’ve said the very things that the Dems should be arguing with the hateful GOP and educating the public about. Why did they let the attacks on the trans community go unanswered during the election?
Because neither cares about the safety of their constituents. Its all political posturing.
Because the general public does NOT fw trans people and if Dems try to educate on trans people, then general public will believe the insane accusations of the right and Dems will lose support of the general public.
You think maga would have cared if they called them out? And they did, they made it clear they were going to stand up for trans people, and that just made maga hate us all the more. It doesn't matter to bigots if they get called out.
Thank you for your consistent, reasoned, and VOCAL support Hon, it means a lot!💖✊🏳⚧
As a transwoman myself, my first reaction was exactly what McBride's was. I suspect it is because I respect and admire cis women so much, and at my core, I seek acceptance from other women, I never demand it (that is what a man would do?).
Ironically, on trans people in the restroom, this is an area where we don't have the voice everyone thinks we do. It is like a prisoner being mistreated. No one will listen to them, but a free citizen saying the prisoner is being mistreated has much more weight.
Thank you for being such a powerful ally.
We need to protect ALL women. 🏳️⚧️💕
I'll protect the ones that I'm responsible for. The rest of you are on your own.
@ okay?
so like "all lives matter"?
@@superslammer
I expect this is meant to be inclusive in context, but yeah it does have that potential vibe.
@@superslammer I meant it as a response to people trying to exclude trans women in the fight for women’s rights and equality. Imo, you can’t claim to care about women if you don’t include trans women.
There are about to be some very confused congressmen seeing who they're sharing their washroom with.
I can't believe these fools are still arguing about who needs to go to what bathroom. Unbelievable.
Thank you for your loud & vocal ally-ship as ever. As a trans woman in the UK (Or TERF-Island as we call it) what happens in the US follows suite over here pretty quick. We need more people like you on our side.
Thank you for speaking out. As a trans woman in a red state I feel the constant pressure against us. Knowing people like you are willing to stand up with us means more than you can imagine.
I agree with everyone here. Thank you for speaking up for the Trans Community. The world truely needs more people like you.
Thanks for doing the hard work Steve!
I find myself increasingly wondering if my forebears ran to the wrong country when they fled from murderous psychopaths.
Good morning! Gay, disabled black male watching from my bedroom in Baltimore,Maryland
thank you for sticking up for us
Thank you for being a strong Ally 💜🙏🏽🏳️⚧️ we gotta fight for the RIGHT TO POTTYY!!!
How would they even enforce it?? Whats to stop me from joining my trans sisters in the men's bathroom, talking loudly about my period, droping a log, and gennerally making the men uncomfortable?? They can't access my birth certificate. I have an ID, but who's to say I didn't get it changed?
like "whats stopping a cis man pretending to be a trans man from going into the womens bathroom?" to completely nullify their argument unless they pull up the "we can always tell" bullshit
If your state enforced it, I imagine someone somewhere would have your birth certificate, and would probably pass a law saying your ID must match it.
My wife works in a government office. She's terrified that they're going to push this for all federal offices. She's worked there for 20 years without any problems. She has IBS and mobility troubles that will make it a complete nightmare for her to make it to the nurse's station, which has the only unisex restroom in the entire building. She could lose her job. If she lost her job we would be destitute because my disabilities make it impossible for me to hold a job. Compliance is going to be viewed as the go-ahead for a full Federal ruling to not allow Trans people in the proper restrooms. This kind of ruling has long reaching consequences that will destroy so many lives.
Im wondering how far itll go before she stands up for herself
Male and female dresscodes in the house are different
I absolutely will still use the women's room, even if there's a national ban
I'm not gonna lay down for them to kick me
Yes, I do wonder how far the Republicans will try to push it. Will they address her as "The Gentleman from Delaware?"
That is a higher hill that she might have to "die on". Even the first native American congressman had to get a vote of exception to keep his long hair.
Thanks. Came to your channel for the Star Trek, stuck around because you're a stand-up guy. Even slipped in a joke at the end that made me smile.
I'm actually afraid of bigots like Mace and especially ones who talk about violence like MTG. I don't want them in the same bathroom as me.
Those who do not face persecution must speak up to protect those who do. Thank you.
If you have not read Sarah McBride's story "Tomorrow Will Be Different" then I highly recommend it. Since she has made the decision to not make an issue of this I assume it is based on a long record of fighting and putting herself out front for passage of LGBTQ+ protection laws that she believes this is not the best use of her position for such causes. Which is actually pretty smart, for it takes her out of being the "issue" as "how dare she insist on using the women's restroom"(*of course they'd misgender her as he) and keeps focus on Mace's, Greene's and Johnson's bigotry.
Thank you for standing up for trans rights. It’s scary to see how many people (including democrats) who’ve thrown the trans community under the bus.
I'm watching the Brandon Scott documentary right now so I won't be able to listen to the video, but I'll watch later. In the meantime I'm letting your vid play in the background for views.
One more thing: someone from a very privileged group said some performative nonsense on one of your recent videos regarding trumps win & their escalating hatred toward Trans people. I replied "Trans people need much more than you just buying a flag, feeling proud of yourself and that's it. Trans people need supportive action and you & all the other people in this thread have the power to truly help Trans people". Unfortunately this app has been deleting alot of my comments so that one didn't post. 😤
God it’s always great to hear cis allies arguing for us. Thank you. It feels like cis people usually just hate me or are completely confused by me, so to have real support is special and feels amazing
Trans rights may be human rights but it means nothing when people like MTG have positions of power.
That's the huge problem.
Don't comply in advance.
Steve as a trans person I can never say enough how much I appreciate your continuing and unyielding support of our community. Thank you.
The thing about bigots is that they should be given no place. In that meeting, they, (the presenters) should have ended that meeting right after Maise insulted that transperson and told Maise to get out and take her hateful ideas with her.
100% where were the voices to deal with that bigotry.
Why are they so concerned about other people's genitals and how they're used?
@@GrahamBorland-cz8cx cause they're creeps and anyone that thinks like them is a creep too 😊
Under normal circumstances, I would agree that how she chooses to represent herself regarding this attack on her identity is her choice to make. However, who she represents now extends beyond herself and, therefore, doesn't only concern her. This attack is not isolated to just her and it is irresponsible to treat it as if it is by anyone, her included. In this case, defiance is the only appropriate response, anything short of that is inappropriate.
I also get mad about the trans sports argument. Sports are already split into ability level. C team, JV, Varsity. Elite atheletes tend to not participate in school athletics, and elite competition’s have their own standards. They are fighting over less that. 1000 kids nation wide. And I’m really guessing high.
Even with Lea Thomas. She didn’t win all her meets. So clearly she want some devious man pretending to be a woman just to win.
It’s all so ridiculous, and so many people fell for it we are stuck with another 4 years of Trump. All because he hates who they hate.
@@GrahamBorland-cz8cx she you twat
@@GrahamBorland-cz8cx It's gender segregated because of misogyny and the misogynists worked hard to make that obvious.
And way to admit you don't know what a woman is.
@@GrahamBorland-cz8cx a trans woman who hasn't won a major event since hence why the right wing and the woman who started the fuss against her are still running on that first event
Thank you for the vid. As a trans person, I get what an awful situation Sarah McBride finds herself in there. Though as the first trans person in her position, and at this at all times, she's got a lot riding on her and I wish she'd step up. This will be a time that demands extraordinary things of us all, like it or not.
Thank you so much for all your videos Steve! Finding you a few months ago has been one of the best things to happen this horrid year for both the trek and politics ❤
I'm a indie webauthor of very little note. Have about forty or so fans I chat with on a regular basis, and I had five hundred readers on my ScribbleHub account before I nuked my stories. I nuked them because I was harassed by transphobes on the site following the election. I made some attempt to combat it, but it escalated to a series of disgusting messages being posted to my stories accusing me of being a cheese pizza enthusiast, amongst other shockingly untrue and horrific accusations. I understand wanting to fight, but having to delete over a hundred and fourty thousand words of stories (all backed up, but without the loving comments from my readers) to avoid them being tarnished was...distressing. It was a bad move, but when ScribbleHub's owner and moderator implicitly endorsed the bigotry, I realised I made the right decision.
People forget the first thing Hitler did was burn the science books where back then doctors were working with the gay/trans community and documented everything. These people were redrumed along with people with physical disabilities. We left that part out of the teaching of the Holocaust. I've never been to the Holocaust Museum so I'm not sure if it was documented there. All I know is I wasn't taught about that in highschool. This is right out of Hitler's playbook and of course he blamed the "communist" bc of course he did. I also believe some of the doctors went and did experiments for Hitler.
As a transwoman, I just want to say thay I am sick and tired of being a political punchingbag and pawn to execute agendas. I never asked to be who I am, but I am who I am and want to just live my life. Why should others political viewpoint and opinions come in play when I have to pee. I don't want to have other feel bad or ruin spaces obviously made for cis gendered women, but I have to use the restroom with having the least amount of stares to me as possible. Leaving from the mens restroom while looking as a woman would be incedibly awkward.
Secondly, my choice as a transwoman to not participate in political movement for transwoman or identify as a transwoman is my choice. Good for those who fight for equality for transfolk. But some people choose not to be a part of political movement for transfolk.
For fxcks sake, let transfolk just live in their gender. Thats it. I don't need a discussion about transrights before taking a shxt.
Thank you so much for being such a wonderful ally and speaking up!!!
We are Americans too, our rights are worth fighting for 🏳️⚧️
As a trans person, I'm 100% disappointed when the first trans congresswoman obeys bigoted rules. It makes me feel like that's the same lack of effort she will take when representing us in the future.
We're tired of lackluster allies. I need to see a "Trump" type of person come up in the left wing and be a big bully to these conservatives instead of appeasing them and trying to beg for our human rights.
When I say "Trump type", I don't mean conservative. I mean someone who defends trans people aggressively.
an attack dog. thats the term you are looking for
I say no. There is concept of choosing one's battles. One idea is that someone can attack you for the express purposes of draining your energy, or gaining attention for themselves. And there is the concept of waiting until you have the strongest position to strike back. One of the best things she can do, is do the job for which she was elected for. And one strategy of following the rules, is to prove how ridiculous it is if one follows it. It might take her going to the men's room and hogging up the mirrors or something.
Exactly!!! I want someone LOUD and UNRELENTING to be brash and bold, and burst in to fight the good fight like an unapologetic fucking hurricane!!
If there was a specific bathroom bill against me, if they dont respect my right to go where I decide to go, I would definitely disrespect their gender or even misgender those ppl if it gets extreme enough
No that’s counterintuitive .
I will hold fast for my fellow human beings
Against the human that hates that human
Hold fast
I think AOC said it best who exactly will be enforcing who is and isn’t a woman and how would it take place? What exactly would be the protocol for the men’s bathroom as well? Is it possible to keep up with the dangers that haven’t revealed themselves as yet? Or is the bigotry involved such huge but silent part of the equation that it doesn’t have to make sense.
Thanks for making this video, Steve.
What I learned: Congress is constitutionally incapable of behaving in public restrooms.
It’s a great thing Sarah McBride is the first openly trans woman in congress and Nancy Mace is disgusting and not because she’s a republic but what comes out of her mouth. Honestly I feel like Mace is using excuses for her words and actions.