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Just curious (and I’ll probably regret asking): what is the “trans agenda”?
All I see is people who just want to have a right to exist, so I guess that could be an agenda?
I am a proponent for someone to really express what they want to say even if some people think it is politically incorrect to say so. While advocating against the rights of transgenders will always be a wrong stance to take and a wrong belief to believe in because they do deserve their rights.
But I do think going all-out to protect them from opinions they may not like is an overreaching form of censorship and I have seen that practiced on Reddit way too many times up until my final real banning on there. (Meaning, the last time I ever got to interact on Reddit that isn't shot down to shadow-banning like it is now today, for me)
I think you should have opinions on them shy from outright calling violence to them or saying they don't deserve a right to live. For example, I truly believe that Transgenders have too much of a stranglehold of the spotlight that it has threatened even the fabric of unity of the LGBTQIA+. I'm not kidding, they have just been hogging the attention for years and it almost feels like the community is strictly just them and no one else, coming from someone who is non-binary and bisexual.
And this has caused some level of unease in said community where it feels like we have to pledge some separate level of devotion to transgenders or we're seen as bigoted, despite the fact that simply just pledging support and upholding values and identifying with the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole simply isn't enough which I think it SHOULD be enough.
So it seems like everywhere, especially Reddit, you will be shredded down in seconds if you have a single thing to say against transgenders, even if that opinion doesn't call for the mass execution of them and I think it is outright ridiculous. It is one thing for a Transgender instance or community to bar any opinions against them because it is their rules, than it is for everywhere else barring it just because and I feel it is a cheap way to gain favor with them.