As anti-LGBTQ rhetoric flares, transgender activist says 'we need to be out'

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Barbara Satin is a longtime faith leader with the United Church of Christ, and an advocate for aging LGBTQ communities, from Minneapolis. She joins Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes for reflection, along with Kierra Johnson, executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force."

As an adult if someone wants to lead a Trans life, as far as I am concerned that is up to them as long as they do not infringe on another's rights. Men should not be in Women's Locker Rooms etc. Anyone under 21 should not be taking drugs or hormones because there is not enough research to prove their safety. Irregardless these people should not be the subject of violence either.

MSgt Dale Johnson
Posted 18 h ago
As an adult if someone wants to lead a Trans life, as far as I am concerned that is up to them as long as they do not infringe on another's rights. Men should not be in Women's Locker Rooms etc. Anyone under 21 should not be taking drugs or hormones because there is not enough research to prove their safety. Irregardless these people should not be the subject of violence either.

--- In what way do trans people "infringe" on anyone else's rights? Name me one example that you had your rights "infringed" by a trans person. (Spoiler you can't it doesn't happen).

"Men should not be in women's locker rooms." -- Ok so tell me what will you do when passing trans women (that's male to female transition) start coming in the locker room or bathroom with you? What do you think women will say when passing trans men (female to male) are in the women's restroom or lockerroom? And how will you know they are trans if they don't tell you? I guarantee you've been in a bathroom with a trans man and never even knew it. Or a locker room. There's absolutely no way to enforce these "bathroom" laws at all. I've seen cisgender women who "look" masculine get harassed and told to provide ID in a bathroom because someone "thought" they were trans. When does it stop? Why is it okay to invade the right to someone's privacy because YOU have a bigoted view?

"Anyone under 21 should not be taking drugs or hormones because there is not enough research..." false. Also it's not just trans kids who are taking puberty blockers. There are cisgender kids with precocious puberty that need to have puberty blockers to stop it since they are starting it too soon (those are kids starting puberty as young as 5). Here's an article on that: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnzjk/no-one-had-a-problem-with-puberty-blockers-when-only-cis-kids-took-them
"Puberty blockers have long been used to treat precocious puberty (the medical term for early puberty) in cisgender children—safely, and without any controversy.

“Puberty blockers have been used for decades in cisgender kids who either are going through puberty too early, or, in some instances, kids who are going through puberty very quickly,” Jason Klein, a pediatric endocrinologist and Assistant Director of the Transgender Youth Health Program at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, told VICE. “Their use has been FDA approved, well-studied, well-documented, and well-tolerated for a long time now. And it’s the exact same medication that we use in trans or nonbinary children to basically put a pause on pubertal development. Exactly the same medications, at exactly the same doses.” "

Also puberty blockers simply pause puberty. If a person stops taking them, they'll go into puberty. They don't cause any harm. Also they aren't given to kids who haven't entered puberty, what would be the point of that? You can't stop puberty if it hasn't happened yet. Here's an article that discusses myths about them: https://www.fatherly.com/health/myths-puberty-blockers-trans-kids-debunked