Trans Activists Are STILL Their Own Worst Enemy

[@Sophnar0747]

Links to support me are in the description, I also recommend checking out my video titled 'The tragic politicalization of a double murder' if you'd like to learn more about the disingenuous murder statistic. Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHWsaKN5jr93nrM

[@mementomori771]

Have a enjoyable blunt after finishing such a massive video!

[@volkerxd8821]

Hey soph just rewatched the video after getting some sleep lol God damn it's depressing I'm not trans but trans people are people my fellow man so to speak and I do agree I worry for trans people real trans people like you and others people are simple and the majority of normies won't understand much of this they will just see the crap and not research or try to learn more and it's going to screw everyone we'll all suffer thanks to this great video btw worth the wait will be recommending people in conservative circles that watch videos about stuff like the 1557 Florida bill check this out to see that not all trans are alike and agree with this crap to see a different trans perspective

[@chlorie0w061]

I agree with some of the sentiments but you absolutely fail my vibe check. 8:30 first off women don't have access to men's recourses, stuff like diet, exercise, training and even medical recovery looks so different. The best athletes at my school lived on liquid diets and only one was a girl. Maybe women are just not given the same but hey, maybe you are right saying that trans women have an advantage but then I would ask how much of an advantage would a trans man have, especially when he gets access to superior training. 10:50 "transgenderism" is not a medical condition. people who are transgender just identify different from their birth sex, homosexuality is similar 12:55 no, that doesn't happen 13:40 if i wanted to i could go to the store and get estragon based products and make a meth lab in my home or i could just get the hormones that everyone else has access to 14:00 no because miss diagnosing schizophrenia will lead to permanent sociological damage within the first month. estragon in the first month does nothing. 16:40 if 18 is good okay, now can the 18 year old go in the girls locker room, go play on the girls team and use the girls restroom 17:25 if detransitions ever reach 15% i will agree. cosmetic surgery is much higher and unlike a few months on hrt, that is permanent 18:10 12 months, so a year which means 19 you would get hrt 18:35 cool i disagree with you. 19:25 if you make it impossible to get into women's sports for trans women, you are excluding them from women's spaces. that is a TURF, claiming women are so weak that even the presence of a post op trans women makes cis women disadvantaged in some way. 19:50 that is your tweet, please don't source yourself when making a video defending yourself source: I made it the hell up 20:00 that tweet got 6 likes mam. cope and seethe that anyone even dislikes you. 21:00 you are concern trolling. 22:35 cool, then let white people play as black people and tall play as short and nero typical play as autistic, the point is don't fake your diversity. 23:20 shrek is played by a cis man but could have been played by a tarns man, ether way it does not matter in that story, sometimes it matters and sometimes it doesn't 23:40 wow, an R rated comedy movie with a cis person playing a trans person, that has never been done before. 24:30 yeah, they where wrong to do that. 30:45 no, your not less likely to be murdered because you are trans, you are as likely to be murdered plus additional amount. 32:00 literally just a slippery slop fallacy, china and russia are autocracy's and kill their own people for protesting against them 35:00 yeah, don't be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic and that excluding people in based on your preconceptions. i don't know who you are but you failed to convince me, maybe watch a guy called vaush. he is pritty good at this stuff. 37:30 that is not "ass hanging out", are booty shorts too small now

[@yewtewbstew547]

​@@chlorie0w061 _"women don't have access to men's recourses, stuff like diet, exercise, training and even medical recovery looks so different."_ This is generally not true. At least I've never witnessed it reflected in training anywhere personally. Maybe that's how it's done wherever you live, but if so you're training wrong lol. Same with "liquid diets", that's not a good way for anyone to eat. Especially an athlete. If you're talking about liquid meal replacements high in carbs and/or protein _in addition_ to a regular diet as a way to boost caloric intake and macros, then yeah okay that makes sense. But not a 100% liquid diet, that's madness. What works for men, works for women. Diet, training, recovery, it's all the same. We're different, but we're not _that_ different. The only differences there lie in things like appetite, performance, and duration of recovery. Those differences are a result of biological differences and need to be accounted for, and yes biological men have a distinct advantage in all three, but the resources are the same. Trans women competing against biological women have an advantage in virtually any event where performance is dictated by strength, endurance, or even just body size and proportions in some cases. That's not even really debatable, the evidence that proves it is basically the entirety of sport. If someone is born a man, and they grow to 6'3" with a matching wingspan and size 12 feet, are you telling me they don't have an inherent physical advantage as say, a swimmer, over biological women? Even post op, if they choose to go down that route? Just that frame alone means they're able to create more drag with their limbs to propel themselves through the water than most women ever could. Lowering their test isn't going to undo that, all it will do is result in some muscular atrophy. And the testosterone thing is actually a red herring anyway. Sure, lowering your test levels will absolutely reduce your performance, but not enough to completely eliminate the advantages it has already created. The easiest example of this is probably children. Why do schools for kids aged 5-11 still segregate boys and girls sport, even though most of them haven't even started puberty? It's because the boys are better. They're _already_ better at most physical activity, even before their bodies have begun producing testosterone of their own, purely as a result of the testosterone they were exposed to in utero that made them male in the first place. Once boys go through male puberty, that gap becomes even wider. Biological women, on average, are weaker than biological men. They have less endurance than men, both muscular and cardio/respiratory, on average. They are smaller than men, on average. You don't have to like it, but this is reality. If you advocate for trans women being allowed to compete with biological women, you're are advocating for biological women essentially being rendered obsolete in sport. Maybe you're okay with that, maybe you think that is a sacrifice worth making if it makes trans people feel more accepted. But the least you and others who think this can do is be honest about it, rather than denying what is right in front of your eyes. And in case you think I'm a transphobe; none of this applies to trans men. Trans men, who were born women and choose to compete as men with biological men, are placing themselves at a disadvantage in most sports. Even still with relatively high dose HRT. That's why they aren't an issue, and you never really hear anybody complaining when they choose to compete as males. If I actually was a transphobe, then maybe I would have an issue with that too. But since I'm not, and I only care about what is fair, I don't consider trans men competing in male sport to be a problem.

[@chlorie0w061]

@@yewtewbstew547 1 liquid diet mainly refers to processing food like broccoli and eggs to digest them faster and better control for liquids, it is not always 100% because things like berries exist. your diet and training is dependent on what sport you play, if you play mma then you will be drinking less water and need a low carb diet to stay in your wait class but in rugby you want to be as big as you can get. 2 Male sports generate a lot more money than female sports meaning trans man make more money not going up against cis women and trans women start off with more money and training than cis women. 3 cis woman athletes are not your average women, women that do well in sports have to have high androgen sensitivity meaning they end up taller and stronger than average cis women, even in a cis world their are biological advantages and kicking out trans women will kick in trans men. 4 in my country South Africa girls and boys do play sports together in the lower age 5-13, just because you segregate all of your sports doesn't mean everyone else does. Girls in my school played soccer at break, where they good...no but they where not the worse, they just needed to be better than someone else. 5 weak women should not play professional sports, they tend not to, much like weak men tend not to as well, you loose nothing by letting trans women play sports, you loose a lot by forcing trans man in women's sports. 6 if you want to banned all trans women you are going to have to prove trans women will set records that cis women will never be able to beat, the earlier you transition the less of an advantage you have so you would also need to show that even pre puberty children have an advantage which they don't and you would have to get large entities like the Olympics to agree that to change the rules for women's sports specifically.

[@peachypeeni2726]

This video aged like fine wine. And that scares the shit outta me.

[@Memology101]

The production value for these thumbnails is phenomenal. Deserves more views on that alone.

[@gypsyfreak7934]

hey

[@Sophnar0747]

It needs more reaction faces and emojis.

[@gypsyfreak7934]

@@Sophnar0747 yep

[@yewtewbstew547]

@@Sophnar0747 Maybe some red arrows pointing at cats.

[@volkerxd8821]

@@Sophnar0747 I do worry for trans people I can't spell his name properly but arl Lee erming from full metal jacket said the best way drill Sargent's had to deal with the guys every one in the group loved was to give them special treatment to turn the group on them stuff like they only do 25 push ups while the rest do 100 same thing is sadly being done with trans people the media politicians are giving them special treatment

[@tzkoopa]

A trans woman I've known for 20 years told me this: trans activism has become Big Brother with pronouns.

[@bludeuce3855]

one of those trans activists tried to kill my cousin in some urban area in Ny all ebcuase he said a transgdner woman is not a woman but in the end that activist got a chest full of lead

[@jamelbunny5732]

🤣

[@WSlopeAggie]

I think that's really just the LGBTQ+ community in general now, though. The loud portion of it is really quite Orwellian, isn't it?

[@glmathgrant]

At this point, I rarely use gendered third-person pronouns in reference to other people anymore because the Pronoun Mafia have made people's names less of a headache to say over and over again than "he" and "she" (or "they" or "xe" or whatever new words I'm supposed to learn to not be a bigot).

[@boxlessone1046]

@@WSlopeAggie Can you please explain how the loud portion is Orwellian? I’m just curious what leads you to this conclusion?

[@mtoffo2275]

god, it's so good to hear a sane person talking about these issues. as a gay man, I remember when the queer community understood that as a structural minority our best hope of survival was through integration and showing that we weren't bad people, not by behaving like raving lunatics

[@SkylineFTW97]

I found out that an uncle who I've always been close to was gay in my teens. He's not some overly metrosexual stereotype who's dancing in pride parades in bondage gear, he's a normal guy who just so happens to be gay. I have no reaction to people like him. It is what it is. But I grew up in a very left leaning area that really brute forced acceptance of that stuff my uncle wasn't. We had people going around and just telling people they were gay for no reason. And they wonder why normies are being left with a bad taste in their mouth over the alphabet soup as a whole

[@galahad3195]

True acceptance is apathy for your existence. I fear too many people mistake attention and praise for acceptance.

[@kellysouter4381]

I was just talking to my 75 year old Mum about this. She remembers when gays were jailed. I'm fine with gays, but I'm don't like children being used and mistreated.

[@notyetdeleted6319]

@@galahad3195 Indeed, it harkens to don’t ask don’t tell. Everybody goes about their day none the different, none the bothered. None the wiser.

[@RobertLegereIII]

Yep. I'm not gay but I completely agree. Blaire White and this channel are both voices of reason and (I suspect) more representative of the actual trans community and not the activists who claim to represent them.

[@ShyGuyXXL]

"I just loathe the community I've been forcibly grouped into..." I can relate to this so much. I'm LGBT myself, but since these activists have gone WAY too far with their regressive rhetoric, I don't even want to be open about my sexuality in most places anymore. I don't want to be associated with people who act like the LGBT equivalent of the obnoxious Vegan stereotype. I don't want my sexuality to be something that defines me. Cuz it has nothing to do with my personality. At the end of the day, I just want people to have fun around each other and not let petty bullshit get in the way of that. But these activists are the definition of petty. It doesn't matter what your actual intentions are. All that matters is that you've sinned against their religion. So it's ok for them to treat you like a subhuman. I want people to just love each other unconditionally, as sappy as that sounds. But how can you love one another, if you can't even be comfortable around each other? I wouldn't feel comfortable in a room full of LGBT activists. I'd know it would just be a matter of time until they twist my words to villainise me and turn on me for something I didn't even think. By the way, the term "LGBT Community" is a misnomer. There's no such thing. It's a demographic, not a community. A community is a group of people who regularly interact with each other. Just because I'm LGBT doesn't put me in contact with all the other ones. We're not a hive mind. When LGBT activists say they fight for the "LGBT Community", they only mean the ones who agree with them. You can be as LGBT as you want, but as soon as you raise a point of contention, you're no longer part of the people they claim to be fighting for. It really is a religion.

[@TheAnomaly00]

@[Kinda back to life] The HatposterPlayed college ball y'know.

[@TheAnomaly00]

@[Kinda back to life] The Hatposter Try University of Texas. Coulda gone pro if I hadn't joined the navy!

[@NebLleb]

@[Kinda back to life] The Hatposter You're pretty good.

[@sirdogs8766]

I feel ya. I myself am bi, most people don't know, because it doesn't really matter. I don't associate myself with anything LGBT related. I really don't like the messages that the loud people try to push and send. The way I see it, I am naturally bi, I understand the science behind it, so why should I take pride in that sexuality and act like it's my whole personality. I mean it would seem extremely racist and white supremacists if I took pride in being white and made my race part of my personality. It would seem extremely sexist if I took pride in being male and made my sex a part of my personality. If you genuinely care, why purposefully segregate yourself and treat yourself as different when you just are the way you are?

[@heroesoftomorrow3488]

Some people prefer to use the term "Queer" to specify not being straight, but having no ties with LGBT communities out of choice If you see it that way, then calling LGBT a community isn't a misnomer anymore, as being Queer is specifically the demographic, and thank god for this distinction, so that non-heterosexual people do not get lumped with loonies and kids fuckers

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

I'm so glad you exist. I've been an left-wing egalitarian my entire adult life and I agree with all your points, but were I to voice that to some people who are supposedly "accepting", they would actively try to ruin me. it absolutely disgusts me how intolerant the left has become. I honestly loathe the unwillingness people have to engage in genuine discussion and debate these days. One in which you go after the argument, not the individual. Even in this vid, your own critics always go after *you* rather than what you say. Calling you a transphobic cis Nazi. That's nothing more than a pathetic attempt to shut you down. A while ago I tried asking someone who kept saying "Trans rights are human rights" what rights trans people lack? Which was a genuine question btw, I thought "maybe there is some right they lack that I'm just unaware of". But they said stuff like murder and rape. But the law doesn't exclude those crimes for trans people. What law or "right" do they want? If they want it to be a crime to kill and assault trans people... IT ALREADY IS FFS! When I pointed that out, guess what they called me?... Yup, transphobic, cis, bigot, alt-right (which as far as I can tell, alt-right is just anyone and everyone who isn't FAR left). And again, I'm an egalitarian, so I believe everyone should be equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. (though I've seen people called sexist for identifying as egalitarian... which I just... DON'T understand in the slightest) Its hard being a "sane" lefty in a world of extremists who make the left look insane. Especially as I hate most of the movements around causes I believe in. Wokeness, Cancel Culture and "SJW" crap does nothing to progress the goals that they claim to stand for. They make things worse in many cases. I may agree with their goals, but I despise their methods. P.S. I know Sophia isn't a lefty.

[@gentlemantramp7528]

Same here: life-long liberal-progressive dead set against illiberal, authoritarian, collective Shadow Projection. We are legion, just effectively invisible due to the optical effect by which anyone taking a stance against the woke brand is perceived as conservative by liberals and conservatives alike. Of course, this sea change on the left has been simmering for 50 yrs, but anyone not tuned-in to leftist academic circles would be unaware that the SJW pod-people-who, in the late '80s, early '90s, used to call themselves Postmodernist, and/or, fans of the Frankfurt School for Critical Theory-have been waging a psy-op to seed public institutions, via academia, with a school of thought designed to undermine the core tenets of liberal democracy since the late '60s, hence 'Cultural Marxism': Post-Leninist in the sense that it no longer calls for an violent uprising of the proletariat but a gradual shifting of societal goalposts away from democracy and toward a utopian/totalitarian dictatorship of compassion.

[@flatterkatz]

>Its hard being a "sane" lefty in a world of extremists who make the left look insane the dvidie isn't really right or left IMHO. Notice how all the insane lefties are the ones that want to force their worldview on you and tolerate no dissidence? Wokeness, Cancel Culture and "SJW" crap, it's all authoritarian. You probably agree with a libertarian right (Sophia? not sure myself) far more often than with an authoritarian left. We have for so long categorized everything by left and right, we got so used to it. I fall in this trap all too often myself. We should categorize it rather by authoritarian or libertarian, or both. The main problem is not that todays left went too far left, sure many got more extreme, but what matters more IMHO is they went too far authoritarian. Sad thing is, plenty don't realize it even themselves. Wokists probably believe they're libleft while living next door to a tankie and a communist. sorry for rambling

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

@@flatterkatz to be fair, I think it’s the extremists on both sides that make both look bad. Extremists in anything are scum. And they just fuel the rage of each other. Left-wing extremists create right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists create left-wing extremists. And it’s the extremists I can’t find common ground with and more so, they won’t “allow” for common ground. You’re either with them or against them. So yeah, there are plenty of more rational right-wing people I can agree with and get on with. Even if I disagree with them on other points.

[@Vic_Trip]

You can thank the KGB for advancing these bullshit communist tactics on US. Since the 60s this shit has been implanted...

[@holdensachs8955]

I can sympathize, I was a left-leaning fella most of my life. I've since hopped the fence for the populist right, but I can't say I'm entirely comfortable there. Maybe I'll rejoin the left once they get their house in order again. I sure do miss the way they used to be.

[@SumThingFawful]

Honestly the Trans movement has done more damage to itself than even Transphob ever could. The constant need to label, force people to accept their reality and distrust their lying eyes hasn't helped in the slightest.

[@Brandelwyn]

Reinforcement of gender stereotypes too

[@PepperKatLancer]

I agree and if a conserative move ment happned and it became Mitarry ...

[@forestsunset9617]

I think any minority group movement that puts itself before the good of the majority will fail to attract the majority to the cause.

[@volkerxd8821]

@@PepperKatLancer not having a go at you but the conservatives don't care most would actually agree with Sophia on alot of this I'm center right and we're not all the evil gay hating trans hating racists the extreme left and media paints us out to be we just want things to go back to normal where people were accepted on merit not victim hood as a society we were doing so well till all this stupid stuff came along to devide us despite what the media and idiots may have people believe the left and right need each other having both views not the extremes on either side mind you benefits all of us

[@theevilbean]

And how many people have been hurt by this? (besides the Trans people that get attacked for no reason when doing it..)

[@michaelhall736]

I remember going on Twitter and was seeing detransitioners telling their stories and this Chloe chick was quote retweeting them trying to push estrogen on them. It was just so insensitive.

[@ExeErdna]

Because it seems a part of this whole thing is the drug pushing aspect. Don't fix the mind just placate them with meds.

[@michaelhall736]

@@ExeErdna Detransitioners are definitely victims of pinkpilling. If you don't know what that term means it means people who try to push a gender nonconforming person to be trans. Their most common targets are femboys.

[@senint]

@@ExeErdna Owch! Reminds me of bad rep of ”shrinks” back in 2007 to 2009.

[@marlom7882]

Holy fuck and I thought I was a bad person with less empathy than average. Never mind

[@VeryPeeved]

@@marlom7882 generally speaking, people who are lacking in empathy are either not aware of it or don't care.

[@thefoxsaysmeow]

Based. Thank you for unapologetically speaking up, and please keep doing so.

[@RichDenman]

As a cis white straight man, thank you for being reasonable. I wouldn't care if there 10x as many trans people if they could be as rational and actually empathetic as you seem to be. This video is a sanity pill, thank you.

[@pestoisnice3827]

A lot of trans people actually share this opinion. It's just the most radical of us are pushed to the front of the media.

[@reinbeers5322]

@@pestoisnice3827 You guys gotta clean up your own movement. If it means gatekeeping the fuck outta them, you'll have pretty much no choice as they are actively pushing people to dislike you.

[@pestoisnice3827]

@@reinbeers5322 yeah I know :( it sucks to see it

[@combinecommando001]

@@reinbeers5322 Which is why Gatekeeping is good. A gate is meant to open to those who should be allowed in and closed to those who are obviously trouble.

[@nightowl9269]

Yeah. Good and evil should never be about what one identity as. It's always been individual's and how one goes about their life. Trans non trans gay straight lesbian and everything else about humanity. It'll all boil down towards your character and nothing else.

[@ExplosiveBolts]

This has been my opinion for a while. Activist groups are as a whole, incredibly obnoxious, and do more harm than good for their cause.

[@forestsunset9617]

Issue is they are fighting to change the views of the majority by insulting and attacking the majority. A better approach would be to be kind and reasonable. Then people might listen. All this cancelling, bullying and labeling just brings all those things back on the community and makes more reasonable people in the group suffer too. It's not the argument that is often wrong, just the approach.

[@GodOfOrphans]

I think the kind of people who want to be activists are all at least a little bit insane, so when the people who become such more out of neccessity than desire leave as they achieve what they set out to do the crazy chronic activists are the ones who take over and that's why Mission Creep is a nigh universal constant with social movements. It's basically entropy, all things tend towards chaos overtime including socio-political movements.

[@yewtewbstew547]

​@@forestsunset9617 I suspect the rationale of people like this is that they've already tried the nice approach and that it didn't work. Whether or not that is actually true though, the offensive approach definitely doesn't work. In fact if anything it has the opposite effect, it is polarizing. I think these types of people don't understand the pendulum like nature of politics. Sure you might gain some traction in the short term by using every dirty trick at your disposal to back your opponents into a corner, but once their resentment hits a boiling point that shit is going to backswing on you hard. That's basically the reason Trump won in 2016, that was a direct response from the right to years of progressive overreach and what they viewed as abuses of power.

[@supremecaffeine2633]

That's more common than you think. A major example that is rarely ever talked about were the abolitionists from before the American Civil War. Their extreme actions made relations significantly worse and fed upon the fears of another Haiti incident. Basically, the fear of a massive slave revolt that would attempt to genocide all white people regardless of their position on slavery.

[@joshuaoverlord5327]

@@yewtewbstew547 well they say a gender is a social construct social constructs can be rejected or accepted and currently right now they're being rejected

[@Makoto03]

This was great. I always enjoy hearing your perspective on Trans activism. You seem far more reasonable than the far left we usually see being the loudest in the community. I was also surprised to hear your natural voice. TBH, i don't think it sounds that bad at all but i can understand wanting a softer tone. I also kinda feel like BLM has done the same damage to the black community as these LGBT activists do their respective communities. They act unreasonable and destructive, hurting other people's views on them.

[@volkerxd8821]

My problem is why are there black communities and lgbtq communities I mean are a black American and an aboriginal from Australia part of the same community because they happen to be born with the same skin colour or do each respective person have more in common with thier neighbourhood that with some one half way across the globe my point is that these terms are great ways to separate us and divide us as people

[@trublgrl]

Even back in the 60's, Feminism, the Black Power movement, and the Gay Rights movement were infiltrated and subverted by radical marxists. These factions no longer exist to bring minority subgroups into equal unity with the greater society, but to separate these groups, and weaponize them against the bourgeoisie. No reasonable straight cis normie is going to want to buy into the crazy trans orthodoxies. Girl in the morning, boy at night? That's dumbness only a nut would accept. It's not something real trans people accept either, but we are supposed to fight for that, because that is the doctrine. You see it as it is, these people who speak in our name are not acting in our best interest. They serve a different master. Their purpos is to subvert the unity of Western civilization. A fellow named Yuri Bezmenov explained it very well in the 1980's. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpfbYnWPrKiqeas

[@volkerxd8821]

@@trublgrl yeah I've heard of this a few times before sounds like a nut job conspiracy theory but then again so did the government testing lsd on US citizens lol

[@AspiringDevil]

Short Fat Otaku did 3 great videos on how BLM has failed the black community and just increased racial tension.

[@trublgrl]

​@@volkerxd8821 It's only a nutty theory if you listen to what they say is their intention. If you look at how the same process has produced the same result, social disunity, it doesn't seem nutty at all. Most people stop doing a thing when they recognize it's doing the opposite of it's intent. These people never stop following the same playbook. Do we really know their intent?

[@LukaUnbound]

SOPHIA YOU CAN'T JUST BE HONEST LIKE THIS IT'S TOO POWERFUL

[@sounghungi]

It's because these "activists" don't have to stand trial to their own failures. When their policies fail and hurt people, they don't answer for it. They don't get held accountable for their mistakes. They just talk about how good their intentions were and ignore the silencing of thousands of voices that spoke out against them. The path to Hell is paved with good intentions.

[@mikeyjamieson4715]

They don't ignore the thousands of voices that spoke out against them, they couldn't hear them. How could they when they're all trapped in their own echo chambers?

[@Mucving]

Found you through Veilguard review and stayed for the rest. It's so nice and refreshing to hear a calm, well argumented and empathic essay on a subject that is so exhaustingly misused for drama. Thank you for making this, you're truly amazing.

[@thehatter9400]

It's terrible for tomgirls and femboys. They like to dress cute and look feminine and are gay but are firmly men. However they are being groomed to become trans because of what they like to look like and dress. Its terrible...... Especially since I like that stuff.

[@belthesheep3550]

I'm called transphobic pretty darn often for suggesting you don't need to be trans if, as a man, you like being girly in any way. I support trans people doing their own thing, or at least I think I do, but the more I hear from them the less inclined I feel to help them. Atte. A femboy.

[@EsperantoDelta]

@@belthesheep3550 well i'm a feminine guy. Would i dress in the ,,soft" style? Absolutely. Would i be a woman? Absolutely not So yeah, i agree with you

[@theevilbean]

Lmao i can't believe yall are serious, why would someone groom another person into becoming the opposit gender yall made up narratives don't make any sense God, why did KZbin recommend this video let people be PLEASE... (also the thing about tomboys and femboys is complete bs)

[@belthesheep3550]

@@theevilbean I don't know why someone would, but they do. I don't know why someone would groom a kid, but they do. I don't know why someone would go on a killing spree out of the blue, but they do. Some people just don't think the same way as you or I.

[@theevilbean]

@@belthesheep3550 the difference is that it's not true.

[@auraaetherbladesigma6939]

More reason to see these “Activists” exposed for their twisted corruption.

[@anotherrandomguy8871]

Yeah. Many activist seem to be terrible people, regress of what they stand for, or what they are righteous about. Feminist, BLM activist, and trans activist as talked about in this video all seem to let their righteousness get the better of them, and call anywho who disagrees with them as either sexist, racist, homophobic, even if their beliefs could have flaws that people may criticize. Much of the time ironically, some of the same activist who call you these things are usually the exact thing that they claim that YOU are, except now it’s the reverse.

[@armatura465]

You hit on the head, I am a lesbian who won't sleep with anyone other than biological women. I am all for supporting true trans people trying to live the best life they can. But as a whole I think the community as a nebulas group it does not work any more for me. I will support individuals like you.

[@volkerxd8821]

That's how it should always be individuals I say this alot because I believe it's something that needs to be highlighted more your not a lesbian your a woman who has an entire life and a small part of that is that your a lesbian these lgbt what ever group that is all they have they have nothing else to define them as people

[@volkerxd8821]

@@desertprince2392 this may sound moronic to you but honestly try gaming we couldn't care less about that crap we just want to have fun

[@armatura465]

@@desertprince2392 I used to feel that too, I was a typical sjw from Portland. Identity was everything.

[@armatura465]

@@narichan I don't care any more... But I am now in a red state and my life in the past 6 months has been so much better than my 30 years in Portland. I am simply a woman who just happens to be gay.

[@AspiringDevil]

This may just be the cycle of political acceptance in a way. At a certain point the goals are achieved and the individuals are just citizens. When that point is reached often we see activists groups became just another political lobbying group for funneling money. I think we may be on the verge of that happening if hasn't already to the lgbtqibxz groups.

[@Tpcool]

Really great video. I don't think there's a single point here that's disagreeable, mostly because it seems so well thought out, but also partially because many TRAs are insanely bad faith and will make the worst arguments.

[@TrueDenamos]

I recently had to remove a friend of mine that I've known since elementary school from Facebook because they labeled me as a dangerous person for trans people. It wasn't easy for me to do but I felt like I had to do it because I was not about to take abuse from anyone, especially from someone who I believed was my friend. This was due to me disagreeing with biological males competing in sports for biological women. Even though I've been accepting of trans people for several years and am absolutely about calling people by their preferred pronouns. Your video basically said everything that I agree with and I absolutely have to THANK YOU for making this video.

[@williansnobre]

Trying to even talk about the biology behind non-standard sexuality is a nightmare on the internt because you not only get the old movements nutjobs screeching about chromosomes and binary but now we have to deal with crazies on the other side too outright denying basic biology.

[@AspiringDevil]

True, I had a shouting match about biological women sometimes having masculine traits with such a not job. I quit being reasonable when he told my mother wasn't biologically a woman because of her arm hair and stout muscular frame.

[@supremecaffeine2633]

You make it sound like the people using basic biological facts are just as crazy as those who ignore them.

[@williansnobre]

@@supremecaffeine2633 More like the people who have a VERY basic understanding of biology can be just as crazy those who ignore biology.

[@supremecaffeine2633]

@Willian Nobre That makes no sense when the argument itself is about biology. It's like saying the people who believe 2+2=4 are just as bad as those who believe 2+2=5.

[@williansnobre]

​@@supremecaffeine2633 We are talking biology here not basic math, X+X and X+Y do work as predicted most o the times but not always because biology is not as simple as 2+2. There are a lot of variants and mechanisms that can fail or backfire, hence why we have people of non-standard sexuality or of varying degrees of expression of biological sexual characteristics. If you want a distinction I would say that the people that deny biology and say that everything is a social construct are worse, but that doesn't make the "it's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" crowd any better.

[@MaverickHunterXZA]

I've been saying the same for quite some time now. We've moved away from "normalizing transsexuality" by decades. Over here in Germany, transsexuality sure drew an eyebrow or two, but people generally didn't care at all. Same goes for the alphabet soup. Saying someone was gay usually created the same reaction as telling they are lactose intolerant. Nowadays, everyone's walking on eggshells, treating people like fragile unicorns. A couple of years ago, this shit would have been called "Othering".

[@rorrim0]

Where i live in the usa no one cares really either. I think people here would be uncomfortable with a bearded man dressed like a womam, but they would go about their day. I think the problem is that such people are revered for who they are. We've gone from treating it like a mental illness, to saying its okay, to saying its stunning and brave. People pretend that the usa is a hostile place to trans so such glorification is justified. You could make the argument that some places are, but its like saying Europe is a bad place for gays, because of some countries in eastern Europe.

[@lunawolfheart336]

@@rorrim0 depends on were you are. For me at least in public no one cares if I'm trans I even have been in men's bathrooms with my pride vest on and have been fine. But online is a different story people feel safe behind a screen and I've been harassed online and have had to block sevrel people. Tho my mtf freinds seem to have a different story then me. It really just depends on were you happen to be.

[@rorrim0]

@@lunawolfheart336 I guess so but the internet will just shit on you for anything that people will know will get your goat. If god was a taboo sacred cow as it was in the past people would shit on religion more. You my friend are unfortunately a sacred cow to some, and that comes with undeserved consequences.

[@bastardblizzard]

it'll be normalized when they no longer have to constantly be defended from far right ghouls pushing for anti trans legislation

[@MaverickHunterXZA]

@@bastardblizzard Nonsense. Several parts of the world are/were there. And even there, support is shrinking due to counterproductive activism. Like i said, here in Germany, transsexuality was pretty normal, at worst raising eyebrows among those who never encountered it. Now these people are *othered* by law, made a unicorn by enforced social norms. They are "the trans people" and no longer just any old person. I'm sorry, but constantly shouting "but the right!" is just ignoring the issue and shifting the blame. Normalization means that something becomes normal. Activism is doing largely the exact opposite.

[@cidfacetious3722]

The creepy part about their “movement” is the focus on kids

[@VolkColopatrion]

That is because being in the closet sucks. And trans kids exist... but when there is a trans 7 year old... it is like a vegan cat. We know who is making the choices. Catholic indoctrination is bad and so is this indoctrination.

[@auraaetherbladesigma6939]

Basically, MAP legalization movement. Whom must be eliminated for heresy!

[@VolkColopatrion]

@@auraaetherbladesigma6939 no I think it is because some medical companies want to push puberty blockers. HRT is much safer but one does not pass as much.

[@DoggieFosters]

Middle-aged het aut0gyn3phil3s decided 20 yrs ago they needed to cultivate an explosion in "trans kids" so they could have public-friendly, innocent & distressed kids to hide behind. Majority of the AGPs forego medical intervention even while they push like hell for public acceptance of cutting up & sterilizing kids.

[@aethertoast4320]

You can't even properly diagnose Gender Dysphoria under 18 years old. Plus have you heard from people who realized that they didn't actually have the issues and are left physically destroyed & in perpetual regret for taking HRT?

[@augustina3657]

I had a friend who told me she wanted to transition simply because she was unhappy. Not dysphoric in any way, shape, or form. Just unhappy. She had undiagnosed ADHD and I encouraged her to look into that first but she said it was easier to get the hormones so she'd do that first. Thats wild to me.

[@ericlondon2663]

The Hogwarts Legacy toxic boycott is a great current example of trans activism blowing up. All it did was sell more copies of Hogwarts Legacy and the toxicity burned bridges rather than building them. Now people who were "on the fence" with or actively just didn't care (or know) about trans issues are firmly thrown into the haters camp even if they're not haters and just gamers... ....all for just buying and playing a video game. Way to go geniuses, you labeled gamers as enemies so now they have no choice but TO OPPOSE YOU or TO IGNORE YOU. Not a successful boycott/protest folks.

[@HomekittyL2]

It alos started to turn the Vtubing fan community against the trans stuff slightly because the people protesting the game would get dirty and try to doxx the Vtuber wanting to play the game. That or just harass them on and off stream. At one point the bullied a prominent and beloved Vtuber, one who never had a mean thing to day to anyone, offline because she openly said she wanted to play it. Worst of all, when that reappeared with a new character, all of the people who bullied her refused to acknowledge they did so and said they were in the right to do it anyways because she came back. Leaves little wonder why I feel shame for falling into the LGBT sometimes

[@willzstone]

Crazy bc as someone who wasn't too fond of trans ideology going into it, I was immediately turned off by the presence of an obvious trans character very early on the game. Funny enough, it made me less "transphobic" to play the game, if only because I really wanted a Harry Potter game to satisfy my inner 10 year old. Yet, the ideologues boycott the game because of the original writer's TERF ideology. It's all so silly.

[@kyodarkness9243]

That failed boycott reminded me of the religious folk back in the day trying to ban D&D, arguing that it was turning people to satan or something.

[@ACE1918]

Glad to see that you are back and an excellent video as always. To add my 2 cents to the matter: I believe it is critical to make the general public understand that the activists are not the same as the everyday individuals who happen to be trans. It needs to be said and highlighted that the root cause for the extreme nature of this activism is a specific product of Far Leftist philosophy and not due to gender identity or sexual orientation. I believe that making more people realize this is what is necessary to prevent the intolerance that you are rightly concerned may otherwise rise.

[@GodOfOrphans]

I have a theory that the ones overreaching, picking fights, and totalizing into purity spirals are predominantly trenders who fell victim to social pressure or where brainwashed by ideologues and as such are so forceful and zealous in order to convince themselves that they didn't make a horrible mistake as much as it is to convince everyone else. It explains the massive desparity between the sane and rational folks and the absolutely deranged activists if true, as lying to one's self about their identity will drive one insane but because the "community" is a cult for all intents and purposes it becomes harder and harder to admit the truth to themselves so they lash out and try to inflict their delusion on the world hoping against hope that somehow that will turn lies into truth. I lack the resources to fully test the theory but it explains so much if true.

[@panniguin862]

Personally I'd say the best way to avoid all this would be either keep the information to yourself (the flaunting of ones choices isn't exactly conductive to people seeing one in a positive light) or just shutting down the loudmouth 'look at me!' types before they get picked up by major media presences like the current batch of crazies.

[@liabobia]

I don't think your lady voice is irritating at all

[@porassrivastava8242]

Yeah her voice is actually very ASMR

[@dylpillchill]

I agree, it sounds like it's something she feels really self conscious about, and I understand one's voice is something very personal, but I don't think it's holding her back at all. There's plenty of more masculine brash voices full-throatedly yelling at the screen, we have a ton of that. Listening to her speaking voice it sounds like Sophia is trying to be herself and it sounds genuine, which I think was the whole point of wanting to change her voice, and that comes through.

[@torunsmok5890]

I actually made my own comment on this, but yeah. She's got a lovely voice but her bio voice was actually off-putting bc it's like a stereotypically flamboyant gay voice but lower than those usually are

[@chilibeer3912]

I never realized how true this was. I am not transphobic but would never bring up the subject of trans issues to anyone under any circumstances for fear of any minor ignorance on my part labeling me a villain.

[@Bingewatchingmediacontent]

“Transgendered” is correct in Canada and the UK. It’s absolutely correct and used by English speaking trans individuals in places other than the United States. It’s extremely America-centric that people assume that their own local colloquialisms are the only correct ones.

[@BrightElk]

Can we talk about how this socially affects them? Many trans people are treated with caution because everyone feels like they have to walk on eggshells because unless you're chronically on reddit on r/trans you might miss the latest rule invented last week and upset someone. So it's easier to just avoid them not because you have a problem with trans people but because you don't want to make it on a list on accident.

[@isanalim5938]

Feminists have been saying this for years. The word “TERF” is thrown around to silence women way too easily, making us politically homeless in the left. Subscribed.

[@kurosan0079]

I would treat every LGBT person I encounter in my life as fairly as I would treat any other person. That said, I would never support their "movement", as it is now.

[@MissKae_85]

I know of a detransitioner who cut off her breasts and had a hysterectomy, her voice is almost permanently changed due to hrt even after stopping… she was living with severe depression. And tried to kill herself. But is working through her issues.

[@MissKae_85]

She seems to be doing alright. Here is her KZbin channel called the honesty project. She details her experience with FTMTF transition… kzbin.info/door/G0-O3zN9yp0jgd5a4-VL2g

[@cooldakota9695]

HRT doesn't affect your voice, like, at all.

[@MissKae_85]

@@cooldakota9695 I wouldn’t know cause I’m not trans and I’ve never taken hrt. This is what she said she went through. I would also think that no persons hrt experience is identical.

[@cooldakota9695]

@@MissKae_85 They're not identical, sure, but vocal training and surgery are the only ways to affect your voice. HRT cannot do that. That's like claiming you got a papercut from a bowling ball, that's just not within its capabilities

[@MissKae_85]

@@cooldakota9695 oh ok. I stand corrected. Perhaps I misunderstood what she said in her video.

[@rooneytutoring]

Im a straight man so I can only look at this as an outsider. I was raised in a very traditionalist Catholic household, one where my dad regularly talked about the dreaded "gay agenda"! Oddly enough it was precisely because my father over sold that conspiracy that I buy in. Most gay people I met were perfectly normal and nice human beings, my dad's narrative fell apart the more you encounter normal gay people. Ironically I think modern trans activism has fallen for a similar trap as my socual conservative father, the narrative they are pushing falls apart the more people actually engage with it in real world. The few trans people I met were mostly regular people who were reasonable and understanding about explaining themselves. They often set realistic expectations on others, understanding that changing speaking habits take time. Most activists will dive straight into a lecture at any mistake. It reminds me of those really uptight Catholics of my youth who were constantly looking to stop other from breaking any catholic rules, like woman who lecture a girl for jokingly telling a friend she would smite her, apparently only god can smite. I think trans activism culture has three core problems: 1. It's become so big that is stopped being a activist movement and became a trend. This attracted many people to shallowly support the cause and those people don't actually understand or care about the nuance. This is especially true of corporate trans activism and any progressive cause taken up by big business. 2. Overreaching. The sucess of the gay rights movement plus the cultural dominance of left over the last few decades gave a lot of progressive movements a feeling they were more influential, popular, and powerful than they actually were. This resulted in them aggressively pushing unpopular positions. They feel too self righteous because of that. The result is that they have plated their flags in positions that are now getting widespread push back (sports being a good example.) 3. Taking in too many identities into the movement. We have all seen well deserved jokes about how long the LGBTQA+ is getting in some cases. This issue is the bigger a tent gets the less focus it will have. It also fails to appreciate that not all these group have aligned interets. The whole gay men and lesbians must be attracted to trans people argument illustrates what Im talking about. The things one subgroup might want can be utterly opposed to the interests of another group. The movement starts having a harder time pushing effective change if it cannot maintain a uniting goal.

[@solarchos8821]

Unfortunately they're also EVERYONE ELSE'S enemies too. They only turn on themselves when they have no one else to attack.

[@alk3rio97]

The issue is pushing this onto kids. There was a study of trans kids that a ridiculously high amount of them ultimately identifying with their birth gender. So actively using drugs, hormones, or surgeries while kids are still developing is not right.

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

They're not pushing anything onto kids, they're giving them the options they should have had years ago. I constantly hear from trans people, "I wish i had known this earlier" or "I wish someone had explained it to me".

[@DeimosA_]

@ACorgiWithaCrown I'm not going to support giving children mind and body altering drugs and surgeries just because some people wish they could of transitioned eariler. I can't believe this is even a thing.

[@AtrusOranis]

​@@acorgiwithacrown467 Options with long term, very high-stakes risks. Now we have children who are not even prepubesant (and puberty is one of the MAJOUR factors in cognitive development), and are being called "trans" if they act more gender-atypical. But are they trans? or could it be that they are high-functioning Asperger's (and not "getting" the importance of social norms)? Could they just have a personality where they are gender-atypical (femboys and tomboys)? Could it be that they are going through puberty, or seeing their classmates going through puberty, and that the changes are causing anxiety (because puberty is hell for everyone)? Granted, some of them MAY be trans, but how do you ensure to limit false positives, especially with the stakes (including irrevocable bodily changes) being so high?

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

@@AtrusOranis You lost me at "importance of social norms" then immediately mentioning femboys. Those two things go together like oil and water. More to the point you've actually provided a prime example of a legitimate reason why somebody would decide they are trans. Or more so affirming there decision. Puberty tends to highlight certain aspects of gender which might contradict someone's gender identity. Whereas before puberty you could kind of blend in regardless of gender, during puberty your forced to confront your own body which is why so many people decide they are trans during this time. They've looked in the mirror, seen the changes puberty has brought and decided they aren't the right changes. I'd also like to add those changes are not irrevocable, if you go on puberty blockers as a teen and decide "Hey, I've changed my mind" which is 100% ok then you can just go off the blockers and resume puberty. There's actually people who've gone through the full cycle of puberty as adults due to some weird genetic stuff without complications so puberty blockers shouldn't be any different. If your referring to surgery then let me just say, you are vastly overestimating the medical system if you think someone can decide they are trans then get any form of gender-affirming surgery within a decade of that decision without shelling out enormous quantities of money. A decade is a very very long time, 1/8th of your life to make a life changing decision.

[@AtrusOranis]

@@acorgiwithacrown467 I lost you because I pointed out that... ASD people have problems understanding social norms? And not everyone who acts gender atypical is ASD. Some do it fully understanding the norms. I agree that people are more likely to figure out they are trans when they undergo puberty, but that doesn't mean that their immediate anxieties are necessarily due to being trans. Anxieties can manifest in a lot of complicated ways, some are short lived, some are longer lived, and we should not treat a short-term problem as something potentially long term without ensuring it IS that long term thing. While I agree puberty blockers do not seem to have huge issues long term, there is some hesitancy I have with them especially for young children. undergoing puberty causes some very big developments, including cognitive developments, and it's around that time children develop complex thinking and reasoning. We are not sure, however, if these developments are caused by pubertal hormones or aside of them. If these developments are hindered by blockers, then this leads to further concern as we are expecting children to break down and understand their complex feelings, which they may not fully be capable of until AFTER they get off the blockers. This, of course, could also lead to the production of "false negatives". There are currently studies being done on such, and I would like to reserve the right to change my opinion when those studies are produced in the next few years. However, I was not talking about puberty blockers, but instead full HRT, which can cause irrepairable physical changes (De-trans women often talk about the struggle with no longer having a "feminine" voice) and super long term can lead to sterility, which if the person wants genetic children, will be made impossible unless they have planned well beforehand. The question, then, is this: If a child undergoes a transition, and then later regrets it, who should bear the responsibility?

[@masterkent1]

I thought the whole goal about this LGBT movement or whatever was that they wanted to just be treated like a normal everyday person where people can just go "oh ur gay? Cool w/e I guess" and just move on with their day. Now it just seems like they want to be put on an echelon and given special treatment even tho the whole shtick was that they were just people like everyone else.

[@PhilippeC-o1f]

I salute you for your courage and your lucidity. I am sure that many transgender people must think like you, but do not dare to express themselves, because of transactivists and by fear of being excluded from a community that is already very small. Not only that, but I personally think like you on the importance of prudence, discernment and diagnosis before a choice of transitioning and I find that activism consisting of encouraging any person who is a little uncomfortable in their skin or not quite sure of their gender to transition is a crime and should be fought as an incitement to harm oneself.

[@oompalumpus699]

Hearing someone who is trans speak with so much common sense is wonderful. Thank you for this video. Personally, I was a victim of gaslighting by gay men. Being told that I was a terrible person for not wanting to like gay men. Because of this, I despised gay men for a long time. Fortunately, the people who helped me most against gaslighting gays were other gay men who became my friends. They're the ones who taught me to act in an obnoxiously feminine manner so I can be a turn off for persistent harassers.

[@Kelly-tt9le]

Seeing this video two years later, post election, is a sobering and frightening thing. Can't say we didn't see this coming, but there's no satisfaction in "I told you so".

[@Esoteric-n-Shady]

I needed to hear this as a normal straight woman. You're not insane. they are.

[@ponikoTV]

As someone who is LGBT, this video is very important

[@fishy7901]

It seems to me true transgender people have the exact same views as you but bad actors are the ones who are driving the narrative. True trans people just want to live their lives, when you're dropping into sports you're doing it for the spotlight not for actual trans rights.

[@lunawolfheart336]

I think the problem is not just trans actavists but people claiming to be actavists that fail to see nuance in things. Also the media is largely to blame. You think the media thinks they helping trans people or wants to. Hell na trans people are just a controversial things so if they can make up a story on trans people or exaggerate it and get everyone to click on it they got a shit ton of money to line their stupid pockets with.

[@reiphas]

I mean, I know some trans people have those views, but they're a minority. And the rest of those people are cis hetero activists who know nothing about how sexuality works and are just a bunch of hypocrites. And that's the worst part. Cis-het people speaking for queer people are ALWAYS the worst part.

[@adenjones1802]

You hear that people, you are only truly trans if you have this persons exact views. And yet you say trans activists are the coercive ones

[@Bionickpunk]

Its kinda sad that this is still relevant cause Trans activists never learn, recently by example of Hogwarts Legacy "boycott" slacktivism.

[@randomprotag9329]

the best part about that is that hogwarts legacy is makes less than themeparks and lego for her. they harrased poeple for nothing.

[@RushValentine]

@@randomprotag9329 I feel they harassed people to hide their skeletons in their closet or "brownie points."

[@BooDestroyer]

@@RushValentine These people are just being exactly like the people they say they hate.

[@occultclassic7134]

A couple years back, I heard someone describe this new wave of identity politics activism as “weaponized mental illness”. From my little tiny corner of what passes for the trans community (whatever that means anymore since we seem to have descended into something of a civil war), myself and almost all of the trans people I know in real life have been absolutely appalled by the activist crowd, and are all pretty much agreed that they’ve become dangerous to the point of being an existential threat. Out of a dozen of us, two are wing nut activists and avoiding setting them off is like tiptoeing through a minefield. They usually don’t get invited to go out for drinks anymore, it’s too exhausting and not worth the chance of a public virtual flogging on Facebook or Twitter. I think a big part of the reason the activists have latched onto trans issues is the ease of playing semantic games to stretch the definitions to include whoever they want. This is practically the “holy grail” of narcissistic faux activism, a way that they can grant themselves an “oppressed victim” status that they haven’t been able to do with other causes. The sudden appearance of the “non-dysphoric trans*” and the non-binary fad, to an extent, seem to stem from this. It creates an undefinable “other” that they can belong to and use as a shield against any criticism, a card they can play to denounce anyone who dares disagree with them on nearly any subject as a bigot. “Trans is the new goth”, the easiest identity to appropriate and hardest to challenge because it now means whatever they want it to. Anyone who dares question the “ideology” is labeled a gatekeeper, transmedicalist, truscum or worse, and risks being the next target to publicly humiliate, when most of us are trying like hell to not draw attention to ourselves and just blend into the background with the rest of society.

[@rorrim0]

There is no real solution to trans athletes in sports. What we must realize is sports is a biological competition, there is nothing fair about it because it's not only a test of conditioning and training, its also a test of physique and pyhsical traits that you have to be born with. There is a reason why short players are an anomaly in certain sports, and while you could probbably find exceptions they don't make the rule. Athletes train their entire lives, and sacrifice a lot to be the best in the top of their field. The harsh reality is if trans Athletes aren't willing to sacrfice transitioning to be a pro Athletes, its very likely they wont get far anyways. Is it fair? No it's not. Is it the fault of anyone? No but we can't lie and say, oh you can be anything you want. Because no matter the soultion you try to incorporate trans athletes in there will be problems because sports aren't structured in such a way. Even if you make a trans division for every sport, in this hypothical you have to ignore the fact that you probbably wont find enough trans people anyways for it to be enguaging, womans sports struggle depending on the sport as well. The NBA has to subsudize the womans team, and its the same for certain soccer teams. So how well do you think trans people would fair fincially if woman who are 50% of the population struggle to find an audience?

[@yewtewbstew547]

Yeah I agree. The other (semi-serious) thought that crossed my mind is that you could just hard focus on the exogenous hormone usage and create untested divisions where trans athletes are allowed to compete however they want alongside their biological equivalent athletes. Though the obvious outcome of that would be a shift from natural biological advantages determining performance within those divisions, to the best athletes just being the people who can inject the most testosterone without their hearts exploding out of their assholes. But at least it would keep the tested divisions as "clean" as they are currently, which is not very lol. It really is impossible to solve in a way that will satisfy everyone. Trans exclusive divisions will be lambasted as discriminatory by trans advocates, whilst mixed divisions with be called unfair by everyone else. And as you say, even before trans athletes enter the equation sport and athletics is already an unfair playing field. Trans athletes, particularly male to female ones competing as women, just make it more so.

[@altermann6753]

That’s like saying the paralympics shouldn’t exist. Trans leagues could totally work, and saying they wouldn’t get press/media is a lie.

[@rorrim0]

@@altermann6753 you mean couldn't. Im not saying they ought to keep trans athletes from making their own sports division, im saying financially i just don't see it happening. Media coverage isn't going to guarantee viewership. Frankly if you asked me would i rather watch a group of people who are missing a limb or two shoot some hoops or trans woman doing the same exact thing, 9 times out 10 im gonna watch the cripples.

[@sianais]

The WNBA self sabotages since some believe making certain aspects of the sport more female friendly (and entertaining) as sexism. Even cricket has the boundaries set shorter so more sixes could be hit, they don't reach the stands too often but it's fun to see, like dunks.

[@altermann6753]

@@rorrim0 wheelchair basketball is fucking cool as hell

[@tobithetabby6376]

All this lecturing about genital preferences from these activists is nothing but moral grandstanding.

[@ZackZick96]

It's worse than that. It's social coercion, and some lesbians have been assaulted and raped. When they spoke out in the BBC article there was an enormous backlash with TRAs and the left not believing the lesbians coerced and assaulted.

[@judeesee894]

Rape culture

[@Subzearo]

It's nice to here criticisms of trans activists that aren't from right wing conservatives. Sometimes it just feels like it's only them making these points.

[@alexsamurai1230]

This is what 'speaking truth to power' actually looks like. Ton of respect for your bravery and good sense.

[@predatorx9015]

Girl , your take is so darn refreshing even though most of it common sense . Instant subscribe!

[@shwayshizzle10]

As a straight conservative.. this was really refreshing to watch. Great vid

[@TheVoidKingMcRaven]

This has to be the best video and I love the thumbnail. As a bisexual man who quite honestly wants the best for everyone it saddens me to see people legitimately dehumanize everyone who doesn't 100% agree with everything their doing with unfettered worship of them. I hope the best for you and your future endeavors and you've earned my subscription.

[@marcielynn4886]

Post op for 28 years. Never caused a sir, stayed in my lane. This is not trans!

[@yagamifire7861]

Not going to lie, I was always extremely tolerant of people doing what they want to do so long as they don't force other people into stuff. Transexuals? NEVER had a problem with them. The "trans movement" and people that act like the ones described in this video? My feelings have been crystallized into a cold, icy hatred tempered by fairly vicious humor. "Their own worst enemy" So very right. So very right. My great fear is that A LOT of people do not have the nuance I have. I fear that they have lost the desire to even CARE about delineating between 'trans' and 'trans movement'. I fear their anger and hatred is crystallizing into the same thing I feel...but without precision. Without care for the innocent. Without care for those who have been drowned out by the insane. And by insane, I do not mean trans people. I don't find them to be insane. Do they have a disorder? Sure. That doesn't make them crazy. These activists though? They're banana-sandwich. They're full on out of their minds. They're sewing the wind. I fear the whirlwind...and I feel like it's coming

[@JadeEyes1]

Has this video convinced you that not all trans people are bad (again)?

[@unironicallydel7527]

The main problem is that the people destroying the 'trans movement' aren't trans. But the more we accept these 'nonbinary' shitheads as 'trans' the more they'll run with it. They have no fucking idea what being transgender even means. These are straight, white, mostly women, who want to be special. They have literally stolen 'trans' for themselves. They are not trans. They are immature brats thinking the world should revolve around them.

[@Rush2201]

Came in for the veilguard vid, decided to check this one out. Knowing you're trans makes me respect you more for your views. As a straight cis male, I've often said that I think everyone should be able to dress and act as they like, so long as they're not hurting anyone. No one should be persecuted or discriminated against. As you've stated, the push by the loudest and most toxic people to force acceptance and label anyone who disagrees as horrible bigots just pushes moderate people like me away from them. I also agree with your views about the children. Let kids be kids, but do not allow them to take drugs and have permanent surgeries to alter their lives. You can't buy alcohol until you're 21, but you can consent to permanent life-altering surgery before you're 18? Just seems like insanity to me. Rambling aside, you keep being you, and know that at least one person who most of those insane activist types would call a right-wing nutjob supports your right to exist and express yourself.

[@demonfox879]

They will deliberately set them selves up for a pit fall and on the way down, still scream "It's the Transphobes Fault" Does that not look absolutely bat shit insane??? You could literally mind your own business, indifferent to people around you. but if someone asks you for YOUR opinion and you Question THEIRS, your automatically labeled something your not. As if the idea of someone thinking differently than you is insane? This is the best video I've seen about this issue and I seriously appreciate it.

[@Clint52279]

I looked at some of the trans murder cases a while ago. I found that it requires a lot of digging to find follow up reports. As in the initial crime / incident would be reported, the victim would be identified as trans, and then the statements about "awareness" always had a place. What is hard to find are the finer details as a case evolves, like trial coverage, and sentencing. Why? As Sophia shows, the incidents of "murdered because trans," are nearly non-existant, and further information about the cases hurts "The Message."

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

Tf, None existent? Dude, "Trans panic" was a legitimate tactic for a while, if trans murders weren't a thing then why on earth would they create a "trans panic" defence?

[@yewtewbstew547]

@@acorgiwithacrown467 Watch the first video on this channel, from two years ago, that's probably what he's referring to. It's not non-existent, it's just far less common than we've been lead to believe. That video will explain why better than a comment can.

[@supremecaffeine2633]

@ACorgiWithaCrown they said nearly non-existent, not non-existent. They're extremely rare, and the cases that were found were blown out of proportion.

[@X_Blake]

Thanks for sharing ur thoughts Sophia. I wish a lot of people in the LGBT+ were more open minded toward your views instead just immediately writing it off as evil.

[@moosecannibal8224]

Lady, you're speaking what I've been preaching to my friends and family for a while. Sadly, as a straight white man, I have like, little to no ability to be treated as an equal on these topics. It's just nice to hear someone share my ideals, and understand that my intentions when I say these things are for the good of the trans community and not me bashing them due to prejudice. I just.... I just want everyone to be okay with each other and not be assholes for no good reason :(

[@pedrobrazon6610]

This is why i follow you on twitter (now on KZbin): the viewpoint of a transperson who speaks logic and facts. Respect.

[@ojyochan]

Yay! So glad to see a caring trans person speak out against that destructive movement.

[@hollyhayes9640]

Someone accused me of being a transphobe just for accidentally misgendering someone who changes their pronouns multiple times a month... (Laineybot/Kai). They've come out as a-gender, a demi-girl, non-binary, and a transgender man... and there might be more that I'm not aware of. I also put my medical condition (Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which causes brain fog - basically, a bad memory) in my Tumblr biography, and they still accused me of transphobia... but I guess assuming that everyone has the ability to remember a persons' constantly changing pronouns isn't ableism? Even other non-binary people defended me, but I would still get accused of transphobia... 😬🙃 Edit: They also accused Blaire White, a transgender woman, of being transphobic for not referring to Lainey/Kai using the pronouns they were using at the time... but by the next day, they were already using different pronouns, so it was fine, I guess? (Lainey/Kai has come out as female, (transgender) male, non-binary, and a-gender...) 🙃

[@thegameowl11]

As an enby myself, My ex-boyfriend has DID nad I messed up on the names a lot so if someone is constantly changing their pronouns/name. messing it up on accident is totally understandable as long as your kind about it.

[@SalivatingSteve]

I really really hope that this isn't the same trans "Kai" that my ex-gf talked to online (DeviantArt?) back in 2010-2011. That person made my relationship more difficult, because after talking to Kai one afternoon, my then-gf texted me randomly that she "felt more like a boy that day" and "don't worry it's no big deal, just a change in pronoun!" and I was entirely confused and refused to refer to them as a boy since she was my GIRLfriend! Whoever this Kai is, has been a huge influencer in the "trans" online space for over a decade. Is it the same Kai who does over-the-top Jeffree Star style makeup? God I hope not...

[@kells3721]

​@@SalivatingSteve I don't think so, the "Kai" in this case is a person who was groomed as a teen by an early washed-out youtuber. It's also possible that the guy groomed Kai into being trans, as based on past gfs he seems to have a defeminization kink. I'm also legally obligated to tell you that this dude has a really tiny, crusty penis

[@unironicallydel7527]

nonbinary shitheads dont even know the meaning of transgender. They literally just want attention. An actual transgendered person, would never call you a transphobe for such mundane and stupid things. These Nonbinary shitheads however, call EVERYTHING transphobic.

[@AllieRX]

6:11-6:25 Not gonna lie, hearing that voice scared me for a bit. You sound so different!

[@salvatorefarmerson3226]

The abruptness of it right? Both voices are now Sophia. I'm a straight dude and felt no distress whatsoever. Didn't sound so different either.

[@AspiringDevil]

@@salvatorefarmerson3226 I kind of prefer her normal voice. Of course my partner has a similar voice so and as southern boy I grew up around burly women.

[@HeinousAnusOG]

Thanks for your videos. I don’t think there’s much hate against trans people out there, just their bizarre political positions and what they do when they get their *extreme* way in most cases. I was aggressively told that I need to sleep with a trans person once by one of their friends, and it made me VERY cautious around those types of people. Too sex obsessed as well… it’d hard to hold a conversation without it going in a sexual direction. Sure, I’m a good looking guy, but they can be a very abusive and manipulative bunch at times

[@markmccarthy397]

I'm happy that this video exists. A lot of the topics of discussion that this video has brought up are things that I've been afraid to bring up in discussion as a mere ally and frankly one way or another these are issues that deserve to be brought up by an actual trans person rather than an outsider. The fear that people outside of the queer community have of facing horrible public backlash just for asking questions with an open mind or wanting to have a two-sided discussion is real. Frankly, I'm mostly just happy that there are people like you who are brave enough to stand up against the most radical leaders of your own community and answer those questions and give those discussions a voice, so for that, you have my gratitude.

[@calebb7012]

I've had the displeasure of only meeting unstable trans people personally, and the online personas these activists put out only seem to do more harm to my perception of them than good.

[@bb-anon6746]

This has been my experience as well, it's unfortunate.

[@BunniePancake]

I am ABSOLUTELY TRIGGERED TERRIFIED of trans people because of this. Listening to Sofia has, for the first time in a while, made me not go in an absolute panic. I totally understand

[@natashaabdurahman4026]

Myself too.

[@DivineLightPaladin]

​​@@BunniePancakeecause of the amount of death threats and harassment, bullying, and discrimination I've faced from cis people, I genuinely felt the same for a very long time and didn't leave my house for like 10 years. I'm working on that now too after meeting some nice cis people who don't attack me the minute I gently ask for respect since their assuming pronoun use towards me caused horrible flashbacks to being assaulted. (I try to be understanding and gently ask because I'm afraid of being seen as that kind of pronoun person, so I just keep the pain inside and let their comfort go first, even if it causes central nervous system affects and health issues inside, just to keep the peace) I truly hope you find that connection too, that can bridge the gap of understanding. Many of us lash out in extreme fear, as a neurological response to being attacked so often, we can just assume the next comment is an attack too. It's taken years of therapy. I'm praying we can all just breathe and come to the middle with compassion.

[@meijinraditya2887]

I can't believe I had to say this. Activist on social media will only make things worse for the people they try to "defend" because of their mentality. And the recent boycott towards a certain game is a proof of this. They inadvertently make their own worst enemy among themselves.

[@Azralynn]

AMAZING video, as always! Thanks so much for posting it!

[@whitevoid43]

I'm very against LGBT movement, but if more people were like Sophia I wouldn't have much of a problem.

[@machinedramon3532]

More people are than you would think. Unfortunately, insanity and visibility seem to be directly correlated these days.

[@whitevoid43]

@@machinedramon3532 fair, I also believe they're more crazies out there then you or anyone can fathom.

[@machinedramon3532]

@@whitevoid43 That's true, and I'm coming to realize that now, but you can't let that be all you see. The internet brings out the worst in humanity on all sides. When you can see all the village idiots talking to each other, it tends to seem like there are more than there really are.

[@acraftyhuragok7586]

This is surprisingly agreeable and the most reasonable argument I have herd on this topic.

[@zhawkmoth3653]

You seem like such a sweet person. It's gross because they ARE doing harm. And people in your position end up needing to deal with it. :/

[@D123-f9k]

Its good to hear a transperson's perspective. I don't want my opinion to just be shaped by detractors and I don't want to be associated with the sort of people who actually would attack or ostracize someone due to their gender expression. I would likely be labeled transphobic for not being as affirming as people want, but I still care about transpeople as people like anyone else. I don't know any trans or nonbinary people on a close personal basis, but I've treated any that I met like anyone else.

[@BitPartDeadite]

Found your channel from your DA vail guard review (well done), and decided to check out more. Was worried you'd be another "red pilled" rage bait youtuber. Thank you for not being that, and thank you for a genuine, insightful video. Subscribed and looking forward to more.

[@Shaidon7]

Same. I'm tired of extremists. It's unfortunate that we need to "pick a side", cause the options avaliable are reduced to the less of two evils. It's refreshing to hear the opinion of someone that is trans on this current social matters, who does rely on buzz words, misinformation and hatred. I'm a straight male, and I'm fed up to be labeled as a bad guy just cause I don't agree with the madness.

[@devinwilson5327]

2 years later and this video is more relevant than ever.

[@a_channel2545]

I have a friend who is a trans woman. We met in college in Introduction to German of all things. After helping her through her transition, we’ve been able to do so many fun things together, like trick activists into accepting gifts of pride flags where the colors are slightly out of order. Our friendship seems like the kind of thing that “the community” seeks to destroy.

[@Rorujin]

Chaotic neutral. Nice.

[@LukyHRE]

This is absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing 🤣🤣

[@nemesi55]

You should give people the flags of small and obscure countries and tell people they are the pride flag of an identity that you just made up on the spot. Or REALLY go for the money and see if someone falls for it if you give them like, the French or Italian or German flag and say it’s a random made up identity lol

[@punksoab]

@@Rorujin it's not chaotic neutral. It's better. It's chaotic trolling

[@should_296]

2 years and its still getting worse

[@irishcajun85]

I’m a big ol’ tomboy, and over the years was thought to be at LEAST bisexual by those around me. Even my mom asked if I was gay. I’m married to an amazing man and have a son now. I still have friends ask if I’m bi. They will even do the ‘are you sure?’ lol yes I’m sure. I wouldn’t have a problem coming out if I was. I’m not offended in the least because I know how I present. I was just raised rough and tumble in the country around two fellow tomboy cousins and like 15 male cousins. And I’m just accepted as such now by the family that really shouldn’t have questioned me in the first place, based on how they raised me. But I fear for little girls that act like I did nowadays that will be seen as really just ‘boys in the wrong body’ by progressive parents desperate to have a seat at the woke table, and push them to transition. It’s in a girl’s biology to be tough as a youngster; our bodies and minds are preparing for the harshness of motherhood. Some grow out of it and some don’t. Some will be gay, but even some of the girlier girls will be too. That’s life. But let’s stop pushing girls and young women into thinking they’re the opposite sex or ‘non-binary’ simply by not conforming to societal standards. We are erasing everything about women we fought for years to say and prove we were capable of being.

[@TheAllanmeadows]

The thing that's funny is the MAIN thing I'm attracted to? Height. Is that, uh, height-ist? Nope, I'm naturally just sexually dominant so am attracted to short women.

[@TheREALwymario]

Two years later, this issue with trans activists being annoying and going too far has not only persisted, but has also potentially played a role in giving the Republicans, who have a number of adamant transphobes in their ranks, the keys to all 3 branches of the US government. Normal trans people are likely gonna struggle to get the care and fair treatment they need, and if someone had just got the crazies to shut up and stop scaring people away, we might not be at this point. Praying for the sane ones like you, Soph.

[@john18563]

allow me to share a related story. in 1950s china, mao was a hero that stood up for the unprivileged poor farmers against the privileged land owners and all in the name of social justice. he labeled all criticism as capitalist oppressors. he gained absolute social and political power through activism. as for the unprivileged farmers that he stood for? an untold millions of them were starved to death under his rule.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

During the worst of it, Mao even suggested it was fine that entire farming villages starve to death as that meant there would be more food for the living. The man was pure evil.

[@john18563]

@@mrbigglezworth42 the most interesting is how he came to power. what was he selling? what's the pitch? why would anyone follow him? you and I today can use mao's method to come to power. today, everyone running for office would show up at every pride parade, run to the front, wave the flag, take pictures for the news and immediately leave.

[@solarblood9240]

People like you should be the voice for trans people. Not BreadTube grifters like Contrapoints or Jessie Gender. Good video.

[@Hayden_Cat]

Contrapoints is a grifter??

[@KamBB-gu3pv]

Contrapoints? You’re mistaken lol

[@PuertoRicanGrinderX]

@@Hayden_Cat obviously

[@PuertoRicanGrinderX]

@@KamBB-gu3pv Contrapoints is a hack

[@Hayden_Cat]

@@PuertoRicanGrinderX how tho? I thought her video essays were pretty good

[@gaspareruggeri8470]

Cis straight male here, I think you are very brave doing a video like this in the current times. If activist take the time to explain and communicate the reality of transgender people like you did, it will be much easier to most people to understand and accept transgenders. You have all my respect and don't worry about the activist that don't want you in their club, I'm sure there are a lot of people who appreciate the work you do.

[@justsomeguy727]

This video is all too relevant right now with all the controversy surrounding the new Hogwarts game and all the people/innocent streamers being harassed and labeled as transphobic just cause they're trying to have fun playing a game with their stream communities.

[@malawisupasoldier7478]

The constant harassment they give to JK Rowling, hating on cis people, trying to eradicate tomboys and femboys, Dave Chappelle nontroversy and being overly sensitive, turned me off from the community. Hope you make more content .

[@bastardblizzard]

femboy active in trans online spaces here, no one's tried to "eradicate" me.

[@WSlopeAggie]

@@bastardblizzard That's anecdotal, one. Two, actual trans people are more likely to understand than the insane activists. Three, this is really only on leftist echo chambers like Twatter.

[@takocat9618]

Don't say "sis" people just say normal people you're giving them power by agreeing to use their made up words

[@Bob13454]

Why the Trans community doesn't like JK Rowling: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHLZlKNjmpmVhdU long I know, but these things are complicated. (If you just mean the harassment, and harassment as in actual harassment and not just expressing your frustration with and dislike for someone, then yeah, don't harass people lol)

[@bastardblizzard]

@@takocat9618 did you know that all words are made up? thats how language works. and the language "cis" and "trans" came from is Latin, "trans" being the latin word for 'across' and "cis" being the opposite meaning 'on the same side'. those words were made up in 700 BC, and have been used in modern languages to refer to gender since at least 1914, the earliest recorded usage being in a German book called "Lexikon des gesamten Sexuallebens", or "Encyclopedia of the Entire Sex Life".

[@zarrahprodan]

I'm sorry that the abusive, narcissistic SJWs are making life harder for you. I appreciate you speaking up💓

[@DarthZ01]

i feel so bad for desmond, his childhood was sacrificed for his parents to be able show off their gay drag queen to all their twitter followers hes gonna grow up depressed and strung out on drugs.

[@MrNickPresley]

They have failed him. Now, all that awaits them is the knowledge that, if and when little Desmond decides to paint a wall with his grey matter, they'll have practically put that gun in his hand.

[@foxboy6145]

Assuming he grows up at all.

[@dewilew2137]

Why would you say that about a child? Why put that out there? Do you think he’s not a real person who uses the internet? A lot of y’all claim to care about kids, but you really don’t.

[@dualgaming1203]

Thank you for talking about this. As a trans woman I was really afraid of talking about these issues.

[@BoyGeorgiaX]

0:51 the Desmond stuff was so shocking.

[@FrstSpctr88]

Sad when the movement who were often persecuted by religious puritans, now have adopted the same tactics and structures of religious puritanism.

[@VideoHostSite]

Goddamn. You're smart, logical, and sane. Twitter must absolutely LOATHE you. I fall right into that group you describe. I'm a straight white male, but I have a lesbian daughter and have always supported gay rights. I left the Church that I'd attended my entire life over their treatment of the gay community. But I find myself starting to actively resent the entire gay community based on the unreasonable lunacy of a tiny group of loudmouthed extremists. P.S., your voice is great. I can't imagine the effort it's taken for you to be the person you want to be.

[@Tossler]

Honestly I share the same beliefs as you but have been to afraid to voice them. I'm not even LGBT yet I see these issues and I'm scared for the future. Just a single opposition to any of these activists' delusions and they could ruin a person's whole career. Which as a young adult, I'm too afraid to sacrifice.

[@JefryU]

Its honestly really refreshing to hear from a trans person that isnt trying to silence others. I dont care what other people identify as, but I do care when those people put others, especially children, in harms way and its sickening.

[@AthenaKolva]

Thank you for this. This entire thing is why I have not a single trans friend; and it really makes me feel like the only one. I'm time and time again asked for my opinion on things, only to be shoved away, rejected and threatened with violence. I've fallen to just not bothering interacting with anything LGBT, just, existing in pure silence. In my day to day life nobody knows I'm trans, it's only people I'm close with or on dating sites. I don't even hide that I'm trans, I'm very open about it. I just have no reason to talk about it, it's not WHO I am as a person, so it's not important to bring up. I do wish I had trans friends or was part of like a trans gaming community, but I have tried time and time again only to be shoved away eventually every time. I was even banned from a huge online nerd group because someone had asked what a "trap" was, so I explained to him what the literal definition is, and explained the history behind it and how people confuse it with being transgender. A fellow transwoman had joined mid conversation, started screaming at me, and I had left that voice chat, because I was shut down, silenced from this loud, rage filled hateful individual. Only to the next day find a big fat ban from the group for "hate speech". I find it disgusting that I'm shunned and hated by my own people. I don't think a lot of people truly understand what it is to be transgender and the hard facts that go with it. People get caught up in this fantasy that transition is the one stop shop for all of their problems. It is not. It is just one single problem that WILL domino affect into many, many new problems you are forever stuck with. And my upmost honest sexual preference is fellow transwomen. I'm not sure how to conclude this vent, but, I'm happy to see someone else who is also trans really understands everything that comes with it and the serious risks involved. I hope you are accepted among our people and don't live as an outcast, far away from the trans community, passively watching it drift by as you drift further and further away feeling more and more isolated. That has been the past 4 years of my life. I transitioned nearly 7 years ago, and after getting through all the clouded judgement spoonfed to me by trans activists, I saw that I love my body, and I don't need to commit a samurai jack to my dick, I love my dick, and others do too.

[@anelbegic2780]

Honestly, you hit the nail on the head in this. Alot of people deny that it even happends but it does and it doesn't help that the media abd giverment are now in the activists side either. And as to your example about the "trap" comment, I havenoticed far too many things being called "actually trans now" in the same vein if not 100% masculine. Traps? Trans. Femboys? Trans. Tomboys? Trans And dare you question it even once, the same people that "support trans rights" endlessly attack you, just because they disagree with you.

[@SteveCondron]

It's so good to hear a trans person speaking with intelligence and compassion. In Ireland, my birth country, children are being indoctrinated into something called trans ideology in schools. This so called ideology is coercive, divisive and rampant. Children are being told to conceal from their parents what is happening in school and anyone speaking out is branded a transphobe. This regime is government sponsored and teachers are either leaving the profession or are facing incarceration for objecting. All of this has created a toxic paradigm which is having devastating effects on individuals and society as a whole. Thank for sharing this.

[@tiagorafael169]

amazing video Sophia, these people have huffed too much Proggressium and have lost track of what's right.. I feel ashamed, as a bi man, to be part of a community of people who act like rabbid dogs each time valid criticism/arguments/opinions are spoken, any ounce of common sense was thrown out the window with these folks

[@carriekube7357]

Another thing that I think hurts trans activists is that some of them treat transitioning as a harmless, quirky thing that can be easily reversed. (See Riley Dennis)

[@jameshurley776]

Holy shit after the jk Rowling hogwarts legacy boycott fail this video is perfect

[@goodcompany6494]

That boy (Desmond) performing for money is beyond DISTURBING. Let children be children and make the decision when THEY are adults. So sad.

[@BooDestroyer]

Ive seen more people get falsely labeled as "transphobes" just for not fully understanding how that whole thing works, than I am actual transphobes.