and is a commie.
Wow, just wow.... :wacko:
Trans suicide rates are 40% debunked-
This is a misrepresentation... usually brought up by transphobes who likely heard it from Ben Shapiro who claimed that -
"The transgender suicide rate is 40%, 40%! According to the Anderson School of UCLA it makes no difference whether people recognise you as a transgender person or not. Which suggests there’s a very high comorbidity between transgenderism and suicidality that has nothing to do with how society treats you"
Or from Joe Rogan or some other pos right wing or 'classical liberal' that went on to quote him.
First off the Anderson School is a business school
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ and has never published anything on trans suicide rates. The study I think Shapiro is actually referring to is the one done by the Williams institute which can be found here -
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdfThis study first off only measures suicide attempts, not actual suicides, which is a significant difference. Secondly it averages out the combined rate of suicide attempts among all respondents, which importantly included people who were not trans, to be 41%.
As a sidenote he also claims that 'how society treats you' has no affect on these rates. This study is particularly useful in showing that being out as trans increases the suicide attempt rate by around 18% which would suggest that there is an impact from social interactions. The study itself proclaims that -
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Based on prior research and the findings of this report, we find that mental health factors and experiences of harassment,
discrimination, violence and rejection may interact to produce a marked vulnerability to suicidal behavior in transgender and gender non-conforming individuals.
Its' also important to note that this study relies entirely on a survey of trans people conducted by another organisation. A survey obviously requires self reporting and as this survey is carried out through trans advocacy services it stands to reason that trans people with problems related to being trans would be more likely to be answering the survey than trans people living happily as people with problems are more likely to contact advocacy services.
Other limitations of this study are of course, as with every study, discussed in the methodology section of the paper and may also be relevant.
For someone who so often proclaims 'facts don't care about your feelings' it's kinda sad how little Shapiro cares about facts when they contradict his feelings... But then as we can see in his videos where he talks about 'how to debate leftists' he's not interested in the truth. He's just interested in winning arguments and pushing his ideology.
The 'oppression olympics' debunked and intersectional theory explained -
Intersectionality is in fact a theory developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a feminist academic who still works in the field today, whose original work on the subject was published in 1989 and is available here if you want to look further into it -
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1052&context=uclfIn this early work she mainly focuses on black women in regards to the difference in challenges that they face compared to white women. Crenshaw feared that as white women were at the forefront of the feminist movement that they would get to address the issues that affected them and that black women - although they would benefit somewhat from this - had had their voices marginalised within the movement so that issues which affected black women exclusively would not be addressed. Similarly in the Black civil rights movement the issues mainly focused around how racist policies affected black men and so black women were marginalised there too.
Kimberlé Crenshaw develops this into full-blown intersectional theory and continues to write and talk about it to this day. Not understanding intersectionality is inexcusable if you claim to have knowledge on the subject. It's not some obscure theory - it's not hard to find out what it means when it's author is still alive. Intersectional theory essentially states that identities are made up of different identities and that people experience the world differently, have different obstacles and concerns, depending on what their identity is. I.e a straight woman is unlikely to experience homophobia but will experience misogyny and a gay man is likely to experience homophobia but unlikely to experience misogyny directed at them. These different identities 'intersect' forming different life experiences depending on one's identity as it is constituted of these different groups that face different challenges. A black woman may experience misogyny in different ways than a white woman or a transwoman. Intersectional theory states that we should recognise that people all face challenges related to their sex, age, ability, gender identity, race and so on and that feminism should seek to alleviate oppression by preventing people from being marginalised and subsumed in other movements such as in the example of black women not having concerns that exclusively affect them (because of their 'blackness') addressed in a feminist movement that is focused mainly on the problems of white women.
At it's most reductive intersectionality states that we should care about everyone's experiences of oppression and that if we are to seek to address that oppression then we should be listening to those that experience it. If you want to address transphobia you have to consult trans people, if you want to address homophobia you have to consult gay people and if you want to address classism you should speak to poor people while recognising that, for instance, a black man may experience this classism differently than a white man because of racism and cultural differences.
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