The fact that there are no alcoholism activists shows that your comparison is dogshit stupid. Alcoholics also don't need other people to play along with their delusions. A functional alcoholic doesn't impact the people around him much, only his own body. A "functional" troon still intrudes on women's spaces and requires special treatment from everyone around him to play a long with his delusion. It's very easy for a man to say "well they don't bother ME, so I got no issues with them!" when you're not the one who is getting molested in changing rooms and bathrooms. By positioning yourself to be oh so tolerant and accepting you are completely throwing women and girls under the bus and that makes you a shit person.
You're putting words in my mouth.
You don't even know my position on the things you're talking about. You've assumed my position based on the words of TRA's (who I have been
vocally against in every post) and the demands of weird Trans Rights Activists (TRAs) and weird autogynephilic (AGP) predators like Jonathan Yaniv. Contrary to what you've assumed and accused me of, I actually don't like all the shit that's happened recently with the whole "we demand to be allowed into women's spaces" thing. I don't want my sister to have to share a bathroom with some weird fetishistic freak who puts on lipstick and jacks off to the idea of being a woman.
The entire point of my example of the alcoholic
is that alcoholics aren't out and public about their alcoholism. No alcoholic in their right mind would say "Hello world, I'm an alcoholic and I demand you
accept me and call me heckin valid." They don't want an activist to come along and tell them that they must do so to secure some kind of rights. And neither do regular trans people (read: people who have been diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria by a doctor and who have taken the proper path to treatment,
NOT TRA's, not AGPs, not sissy fetishists).
Prior to this weird push that TRA's (and AGP's, and fetishists) are making, most regular trans people just used (and continue to use) unisex bathrooms, if they used public restrooms at all. They didn't participate in men's or women's sports, nor do I believe that trans people
should participate in sports, because hormones are literally just doping. I know that regular trans people are perfectly fine using
unisex bathrooms and locker rooms, and don't feel some incessant need to be accepted by the general public into women's (or men's) spaces. And in my opinion, that's really how it should be - there aren't enough trans people in the world for them to
need to use the men's or the women's restroom or locker rooms.
This next bit isn't even a trans issue at all, but more of a general one - restrooms should be more like they are in Denmark, where it's just a row of unisex stalls with walls that go floor to ceiling, and actual real doors. None of the BS stall walls that we have in the U.S. Row of sinks, row of stalls. Solves every problem at once (shitting shouldn't be a communal experience). But that is an idealistic idea that won't ever happen in the U.S. That would solve everyone's problems with regards to bathrooms.
I have been
quite vocal in this thread that TRA's are ruining it for everyone (and just so we're all clear, I mean
all of us including regular trans people). Regular trans people want to live their lives without drawing attention to the fact that they are trans, and not be "heckin valid" and out in the open like the TRA's so
desperately want them to be. They don't care
nearly as much about misgendering, or being allowed to use women's (or men's) restrooms/spaces, or about being publicly validated, as TRAs make it seem. TRAs practically
demand that all trans people declare to everyone that they meet, "I'm trans and you must accept me" (
"IT'S MA'AM!"). They demand that all trans people be politically active and that they make their lives miserable for the sake of some bullshit cause. As I have said,
regular trans people do not want that. TRA's are pushing them into a level of visibility that
they do not want, and their lives are worse off now than if TRA's had never spoken at all.
Here's another part of the problem, and this is something that is oft brought up by people I've spoken to: because there is such an air of forced tolerance/acceptance within the trans community, literally anyone (AGPs, sissy fetishists, CWC) is allowed to say "I'm trans" and people within the trans community aren't allowed to say, "No, I don't believe you are," without facing severe ostracism (they can't even tell another trans person "you don't pass" anymore lol - they have to treat everyone as heckin valid). This has been going on for over a decade, which means that there's been a lot of time for the problem to get
so much worse. Look at Buck Angel, for example. He's now considered transphobic because he believes that Self-ID is retarded. The whole concept of Self-ID
is actually stupid and retarded, but regular trans people who have been diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria by a doctor have to put up with it because if they don't, the psychotic cult of trans that has formed will come for their heads. The lunatics have taken over the asylum, and now it's literally everyone's problem.
Being trans has turned from "something you are" into "something you must declare to the world" and this whole weird ideology of forced tolerance and acceptance (even within the trans community), allowing AGPs and fetishists in, and trying to force girls who display a hint of masculinity, and boys who display a hint of femininity, into it as well. The regular trannies are too afraid to say anything about it, but to be honest, I think more of them need to stand up and say "enough with the bullshit." Those who are even semi-active within the community do share some of the blame for not speaking up or sounding the alarm.
Just like any regular person, regular trans people are accountable for their actions (or inaction, in this case, since their silence has allowed the lunatics in).
All I've said is I treat regular trans people like I treat anyone else. I am not, as you put it "oh so tolerant and accepting."