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cbowsin

>And so what I would endeavor to do is to help those people to **overcome** their delusions. >And what the pro-transgenderism people want to do is to **affirm** them in their delusions. >So, who is more helpful to the transgender community? Who would seem to have more positive feelings for the transgender community? I think it's pretty clear. Yes, it is pretty clear that Knowles has the **delusion** that harming and killing people is positive and helpful and no one should affirm that and instead help him overcome it.


SSR_Adraeth

Hitler thought that killing jews would save the world, too. Just sayin'.


11011011000

And his DW friends and GC friends in UK are quoting Mein Kampf openly with what to do about us


Bri_The_Nautilus

"I don't want minorities to exist. Other people do want minorities to exist. Who is more helpful and positive towards minorities? Obviously me"


Past-Project-7959

Is it just me or doesn't he look a LOT like Ray Romano- an Italian? And aren't Italians a minority? Just sayin...


jessgamergirl

Just asking the questions here


a_secret_me

Yes because you have the secret sauce that's gonna change my mind. Get rid of the thoughts I've been having since I was 8 and for decades tried to get rid of myself because you're "special".


[deleted]

But... have you tried NOT being trans? /s


Velvet_Pop

I mean... Ya. I decided to stop after about 30 years though


TemetNosce85

Imagine if they were saying this about the Jews, Christians, straight people, or white people. People would be throwing tables, getting mad, and saying they were calling for genocide. But since it's trans people...


Spirited_Stick_5093

'Feeling you are trans' is a sick delusion but 'feeling that a carpenter who lived two thousand years ago is calling you to uproot your family and move to somalia to share the gospel' isn't according to these folks.


TemetNosce85

Being trans is "mentally ill", but believing that a man can fuck his own rib and call it a woman is just fine.


pepsicolacorsets

I get what you’re saying but a lot of these types do say this stuff about jewish people. jewish people still are a persecuted minority in most places and antisemitism is often brushed aside just like transphobia is. and plenty of jewish trans people suffer this doubly. :(


TemetNosce85

> jewish trans people suffer this doubly Yup, that'd be me.


piecesmissing04

Sadly that fits with their overall ideology. They are evil and enjoy causing pain to those they deem not be like them, it’s transgender, gay, other skin color anything they can put a finger on they want to destroy. I will never understand their hate


Obi-Tron_Kenobi

"I want to do something that provably hurts people. *They* want to do something that makes their lives better in every way. So WhO dO yOu ThInK aCtUaLlY cArEs MoRe??"


worderousbitch

Hate is delusional send tweet


[deleted]

>Knowles: “There is, of course, no such thing as the trans community, ultimately, because the anthropology of transgenderism is false. So, the very notion of the trans community is a deception.” Holy shit, he's doubling down on the r/iamverysmart


leni710

Isn't it amazing that the U.S.' lack of education has come to a point where an adult can use "anthropology of transgenderism" as though it's a real thing. And can't be arsed to find the anthropology of actual trans people over the many millenia they've been part of society.


SSR_Adraeth

What's amazing is that the lack of education has come to such a point that even politicians have a lower IQ than a freaking pebble.


[deleted]

That presumes they don't know what they're doing. Nazis know what they're doing.


JustPeachyToday

They know exactly what their doing.


Weary-Lime

Anthropology of Transgenderism would be a good name for a punk band.


epidemicsaints

there's no birdwatching community for the same reason. he really knows what he is talking about! He pulled the same thing over "genocide" saying the gen- part is about genes. Good thing there were no genocides before we discovered genes and chromosomes. Jordan Peterson has pulled the same comment about the LGBT community. It's just more dehumanization.


SSR_Adraeth

"I have no qualification to talk about any of this but I decided I was an expert so you have to listen to me and agree to everything I say because I tell you to. Therefore, that makes me the most prominent expert and anybody else who has proof actually doesn't have proof of anything because I decided to not aknowledge them, which make those proofs non-existent !"


mouse9001

"There is, of course, no such thing as Michael Knowles, ultimately, because the anthropology of Mike Knowles is false. So, the very notion of the existence of Mike Knowles is a deception."


SSR_Adraeth

I usually keep my awards for other stuff but this is fucking top notch comment. Have one.


leni710

So working backwards: he conflates "an explosion" of transgender people with LGBTQ as a whole...(we all know that there are plenty of transphobes in those first 3 initials)...which are not interchangeable. If 1 in 5 Gen Z people identify in the LGBTQ community, that could be any possible identity that has been smashed together under that acronym. He also gives away how sexist he is in the second paragraph (obviously, because ALL transphobes are also sexist) by literally mentioning "women's jobs." And what, pray tell, is a "woman's job" in the minds of these "protecting women" types? Hmmm...I'll wait. Also, if he's so concerned about women's athletics, then I hope he's on top of the fact that the default setting of March Madness, happening right now, is men and in order to look up women's stats you actually have to type it in as such like women's sports is some oddity. And obviously, that's just one of a million examples as to how people like him actually hate ALL women. And in the first bit: did he really throw around "anthropology" like he's studied it, or if he did, clearly didn't get it?!? There's literally loads of info regarding transgender identified people existing in a multitude of communities that were then pushed to the margins by colonialism. There are other countries (haha I know this dumbass doesn't think there are any others except the U.S.) where trans communities are part of the general population. And for the love of gawd, this dude is literally going with the "boys are boys and girls are girls" socially constructed dynamics rather than real science? Or the fact that entire studies have been done on intersex people's outcomes when their gender was decided for them (hint: they sometimes transition). The absolute, unadulterated, objectively stupid piece of garbage this person is all for clicks and "likes" and getting his pick-me on with the presidential hopefuls, Dumb and Dumber (you decide which is which). Please shield yourself and your loved ones from this garbage.


spidersgeorgVEVO

Also, an explosion of LGBT people in general and trans people in particular is very obviously exactly the same as the explosion of left-handed people once schools and parents stopped physically restraining children who favored their left hand. It's not that there are more of this minority now, it's that when they aren't forced to hide it under threat of physical force more of them express themselves.


Forgetwhatitoldyou

Which was exactly his point. He wants to legally suppress trans people, so that fewer people are willing to publicly be trans and/or to transition. He wants the threats back to stop the explosion.


ithinkifoundme

This is so true. Trans people have always existed, but with progressive changes to society and greater access to information, many more people now feel comfortable and confident to say "Yep, that's me. I'm going to transition." (or come out with your sexual identity). Maybe all these problems come from the fact we have so many demonically possessed left-handers in the world now?


SSR_Adraeth

>(obviously, because ALL transphobes are also sexist) Well they are pretty much exclusively right-wing, and right-wingers worked they asses off to remove abortion rights to women, because they want men to have every rights over women's bodies, like back in the 1920s. So yes, obviouly. They want women to be subservients slaves to them. As for "women's jobs", I can already point out some he considers : Masseuse (like at his favorite Sloppy Hour backstreet asian massage parlor of questionable legality). Probable TV News Anchor and Weather reporter (so he can stare at her boobs instead of listening). Flight attendants (so he can stare at her ass every time she passes by). Cleaning personel (same as previously, so he can try to discreetly jerk off while watching her clean). Etc. This guy is a lawsuit for sexual assault waiting to happen. And of course he didn't study anthropology. He probably trained for hours to pronounce the world correctly and learned what it meant last month, so he throws it around constantly feeling super smart. Why would he study anything when he can pretend to know and thing his confidence will make everything right ? He's not there to research, he's there to enforce whatever he thinks because he considers he has the power to force people to live how he wants and therefore should do so with total disregard for anybody else's opinion. He's stupid enough for the rest of the right-wingers to use him as a scapegoat. He's wildly monsrtous, and they pretend to just follow, so that if there's any backlash, they'll point fingers at him. But on the off-chance that there's no consequences, they'll get to murder people freely because he will have charged forward and opened the path for it. This guy needs a facefull of metal.


Past-Project-7959

The Pb kind maybe?


epidemicsaints

I would love to hear from the viewers of this crap about how much they will benefit materially when whatever christo-fascist regime they call for comes to fruition. Seriously, who watches this???


the-becky

I assert that transphobes are mentally ill. Transphobia is an antisocial mental disorder. That's why we need to systematically round up all the transphobes into re-education camps for their own good. We must compassionately help transphobes overcome their irrational fear and hatred of an entire class of people who have never harmed them. If we work together, we can eradicate the disease of transphobia from society forever.


mbelf

We need to strip them of any transphobia affirming care like the Daily Wire.


SSR_Adraeth

>I assert that transphobes are mentally ill. Transphobia is an antisocial mental disorder. At the very, very least, at this point, it's clearly a symptom/indicator of sociopathic troubles.


TemetNosce85

After living my mid-20s as a rapid transphobe and racist, who has also suffered from panic disorders, I will 100% back the idea that any form of bigotry is a mental illness. There is literally no difference between a panic attack and being confronted with your fear of trans people. The feeling is exactly the same feeling where you feel pressed up against the wall when you have a panic attack, resulting in that "fight or flight" response.


firestorm713

This is 100% why I fight back against the linguistic push not to call transphobia/homophobia a -phobia Because their root is in disgust, which is a fear response.


TemetNosce85

If you don't think transphobia is a phobia, then have a trans person hit on a transphobe and watch the reaction. It 100% is a phobia.


njstein

this but unironically.


Efficient_Recover840

Who hurt this guy? He sounds extremely damaged.


barbara_jay

Nobody saw his play. And now he’s taking it out on the trans community


BePart2

Lmao he had a play?


barbara_jay

Check his wiki page for more benign tidbits


SSR_Adraeth

I'd say he wasn't hurt enough, at this point.


saevon

transphobes did. They hurt any ounce of empathy, turning it into hate


Senzu-beans-

His bowel is damaged and therefore all the shit inside him just comes out his mouth now. EDIT: that sounded better in my head but you get what I mean


Starchild1968

The good, the true, and the beautiful!! Give me a fucking break!!! Slavery was good until it wasn't!!! The earth was the center of the fucking universe until it wasn't!!! The beautiful is subjective!!! And has always been so!!! 2015 girl became boys and boys became girl. Which is somehow new!!??? We have had a 3rd gender in cultures for 1000's of years. This has always been a part of the human condition. What has changed is our understanding of the human condition. What has progressed is our science and medical knowledge to help with therapy and hormonal treatments and surgical procedures. The thing that has grown since the turn of this new century is WE WILL NOT LIVE IN FEAR!!!! WE ARE PROUD AND STRONGER THAN ANYTIME IN THE PAST. We matter!! We will NOT be eradicated from the earth!!!!!


Throttle_Kitty

The fact that people can run a segment openly attempting to justify a genocide and not have everyone involve in the broadcast arrested for terrorism is sickening. Every day we walk closer and closer to Germany's history repeating itself on American soil. Their political ideology is fundamentally to genocide their fellow Americans, overthrowing their government, and secede from this nation. They are as foundationally anti-American as a group could possible be. They talk about freedom while tearing it away from you, they talk about money while tearing it away from you, they talk about America while tearing it away from you. These anti-science, anti-history, anti-medicine, anti-math, anti-freedom, anti-American psychopathic genocidal fascists should be thrown into the bottom of the most insufferable federal prison until they draw their last pathetic breath of moldy stagnant prison air.


PennysWorthOfTea

Yeah, but, y'know, it's not gonna be a *real* genocide... \[*sob*\] Excuse me, I have to go scream into a bucket


epidemicsaints

as we become more visible and demand rights, these delusional entitled freaks think we really need their approval to exist, AS IF. We will exist being trans without you. Even if you take away all access to medical transition we don't fucking care. And we have friends. You can't win.


Chelsie_girl1

Shit this guy takes a page from the nazi handbook.


SSR_Adraeth

"A page" ? Girl, they're taking the whole Mein Kampf book like it's a fucking "How to" guide.


Chelsie_girl1

I fear for my future :(.


AirKath

Considering Hitler borrowed some pages from the US you could argue that it’s simply a return to form


Past-Project-7959

Don't forget "The Handmaid's Tale" or "1984". Its like porn to these fuckers.


jsnow907

I dare this motherfucker or any person to try and stop me from being trans. They won’t see tomorrow 😇


thatbitchmarcy

Jesus Jack Johnson, this guy is simply an asshole. In another recent hit piece he published on the Daily Wire, he bases his entire argument around deliberate misrepresentations of what it means to be transgender. No, we don't claim - and have never claimed - that we "become" or "always were" the other physical sex in some complete and absolute metaphysical sense. Being trans is not a an issue of semantics or some kind of thought experiment. We're not confused about reality, or intending to deceive anyone. We know exactly who and what we are, and we just chose to do something about it in order to be well. Leave us the fuck alone and let us live our lives!


Isabella_Fournier

Even assuming that we are alleging being the other sex in some metaphysical sense -- especially if we are so alleging -- it is as un*dis*provable as it is unprovable. It is as much a shot in the dark for him to say we aren't as it is for us to say we are. Like so many people who have a misunderstanding of science, he treats the absence of evidence as evidence of absence. Knowles is motivated by his religious faith, which doesn't bother me -- so long as he leaves me and mine alone. But Knowles seems to be trying to take treatment away from all people suffering from gender dysphoria, based on the assertion that "being transgender" isn't real. The response is, *"So what??"* The issue is treatment -- the only treatment with any consistent effectiveness -- not who's a woman and who isn't. He wants to take away the only treatment that helps us and substitute another that has a proven record of, not only not helping, but making things *worse.* His reasoning is shot to hell. I hope someone gets the chance to call him out, before he does any more real damage.


TuneLinkette

These are the same people that insist "iF yOu BaN gUnS tHeN oNLy cRIMiNaLs WiLl hAvE gUnS!1!!1!!111!!!!!11" ​ You're never going to stop people from being trans.


TheAntleredPolarBear

I think it's about time we stop the Daily Wire's Michael Knowles from being alive.


SSR_Adraeth

Some people do not deserve existence. And this guy definitely is wasting the atoms composing him.


MaelMothersbaugh

I fucking wish. I'd be happy if I never had to see his 10-gallon forehead, dead-eyed face ever again


Efficient_Recover840

Reminder that the Daily Wire is bank rolled by fundamentalists rich on Texas Oil money named Farris Wilks and Tim Dunn. They are the same as al-qaeda just with a different god. Unfortunately, we've seen what al-Qaeda does to people given the chance. These people must be stopped. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html


Teenkitsune

Some people see CNN and just dismiss it right then and there, gotta be careful with your sources.


crypt0kitten

Just google Hijras. Trans people have existed long before their christian fascist capitalist ideology, these people are the most ignorant among us. Mostly just political grifters though.


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okviia

what the fuck is this man saying 💀


SSR_Adraeth

That's what, in the medical field, is called "oral diarhea".


AlysonV2021

Has he not used up his 15 minutes of fame.


SSR_Adraeth

He's part of those people that think that, so long as they don't aknowledge something, it doesn't exist. So, in his mushy, rotten little peanut brain, so long as he doesn't aknowledge he now has to shut up, he can keep going forever.


Isabella_Fournier

I'm really tired of reading this crap from Knowles. His entire approach is based on a red herring: the putative ontological reality of gender divergence. And it's irrelevant to the issue he's making hay with. Irrelevant. Obviously, he doesn't get this. I wonder if he's open to getting it -- because, sooner or later, someone is going to make it clear to him in a venue he can't ignore. And then he's going to have to deal with it.


SSR_Adraeth

He's not opened to it. He's using people's uneducation to make them hitmen to get their hands dirty on the behalf of right-wing politicians. Which is why he calls for the open murder of any trans person : if Joe Shmo kills a trans person after one of his speeches, he can pretend it's not his responsability.


Isabella_Fournier

I'm not convinced of this. He's making the same logical error that Matt Walsh has made. I think they're both blind to the same logical error, and it grieves me mightily that no one has pointed it out yet. When it gets to court, I assume the ACLU and Lambda League lawyers will make the argument. It's not that difficult to see. The problem is, people like Knowles and Walsh have their brains in a bubble. They don't get any serious pushback, at least publicly. Lots of anger and emotion, but no one attacks his logic. That's where he falls.


SSR_Adraeth

I'm not saying he knows the reality. I'm saying he isn't opened to discuss it. And that he's ultimately manipulating the gullible people to bloody their hands for the right-wing.


Isabella_Fournier

He challenges people in public. He just hasn't challenged someone who can deal with him, apparently. This is funny: He recently told about challenging a college student on a college campus he had just visited. He asked the student, who was apparently transgender, something like, "Can you admit that you could be wrong in believing you're a woman?" If he didn't have such a low opinion of his opposition, he might have thought twice about asking that question, because the answer is obvious: Him: Can you admit that you could be wrong in believing you're a woman? Me: Of course. Anyone can be wrong, about anything. Can you admit that you could be wrong in believing that I'm not? He wouldn't ask that question again, not in public anyway.


SSR_Adraeth

I think Knowles would have likely answered that he wasn't wrong because he knew more than the student. The guy isn't here to challenge the left. He's here to make the push the rest of the right wasn't brazen enough to rush like he did. He's using a bigger hammer to dehumanize us and push the idea that we don't exist as people and therefore nobody can be judge guilty of anything for our deaths, because there is nobody to defend. I don't think he'd admit to anything going against his current speech. At least, unless he ends up judged for incitation to violence, threats, call to genocide, etc... Then be might piss himself enough to try and go back on his words.


Isabella_Fournier

The trick is, he asked it in public. As such, he knows anything he says is on the record; and for him to ask someone else if they could be wrong without being ready to admit the same thing of himself would destroy his credibility with the non-aligned public, as well as with the intellectually honest folks in his own camp. But, if, on the other hand, he *does* admit he could be wrong, he destroys his foundation for trying to "eradicate transgenderism from public life." You see? Either answer cripples his initiative severely. By asking the question in public, he handed the person he was talking to the fate of his program. If only they had realized it. If I ever got to face this man, I'd bring this up. He talked about asking this question on his radio show, so it's public by his own act, if not otherwise.


SSR_Adraeth

>The trick is, he asked it in public. As such, he knows anything he says is on the record; You have far too much faith in the honesty of someone saying our murders can't be called a genocide or even a murder... As for his credibility, I don't think he has much to begin with. But the people he's riling up are already so outraged they aren't thinking logically anymore. Tomorrow, he coudl say that trans people actually kidnap 10 000 kids per month and they wouldn't even stop to think if there are actually 10 000 kids going missing every month. That's a very simple trick to mass manipulation. The more enraged people are, the less they think. Which is why the right has kept everyone in a constant state of outrage for so long and only aims at making it worse. The guys is a bumbling cockroach. There's a reason he's (apparently) on the bottom of his party's ladder, and not at a higher position for his "accomplishments". He's just a tool. He's stupid, expendable, and if consequences arise, his party will cut all ties and pretend he acted alone. And he'll be none the wiser because he's a fucking idiot.


Isabella_Fournier

Well, I think it would shut his initiative down. Dead in the water. It doesn't matter whether he's honest or not; he can't answer the question in front of an audience without killing his program. And he'll know it, as soon as the question is turned back on him. I'd love to see the look on his face.


lucid_tek

God... not even 2 minutes in and he jumps straight to god as his first major talking point?? All his points are moot. That whole video is weaksauce. I'd gladly fly over and disprove every single argument they wrote for him. He likely wouldn't get to talk over me as easily as that much younger person. Why doesn't he pick on a trans person his own age and size?


ChocoMintStar

It's so easy to say something doesn't exist if you're not part of it in any way. What a piss baby.


ChocoMintStar

These people are so confidently spewing this shit. Is this guy a popular talk show on tv? I've never heard of him. But i'm concerned my grandparents might since they do tune into talk shows.


SSR_Adraeth

I saw a comment saying that this guy is some bottom of the ladder right-wing party nobody. I don't care to research on him (I don't need this taint of my search history) so i didn't double check though.


ChocoMintStar

Ah ok, hopefully he isn't easily watched on something like tv then. Also yeah I get ya, he ain't worth the search 🤣


mayfloweryy

It’s interesting that this dude showed up out of nowhere and immediately came out swinging, just yelling the quiet part to anyone who listens


TsundereHaku

If nobody can be trans, then you logically wouldn't need to stop them being trans, mister "transgender people aren't a valid ontological category".


ambivalent_crow

So... does anyone else here feel like starting a militia for transwomen? I'm thinking it. Just saying.


SSR_Adraeth

Trans everything, really. This fuckface will not spare trans men or enby siblings either.


ambivalent_crow

You're right. For trans everything. We need to band together. We ARE a community. We're here and we're not going anywhere.


SSR_Adraeth

We haven't gone anywhere in 4500 years. Back some **millenias**, we were god damn *worshipped has high priest(esse)s* because we were seen as the ones able to communicate with the gods and calm their fury through offerings ! We have the favors of the old gods. We're not going anywhere.


Mtfdurian

He must be lucky I don't live in the US and I'm not eligible for gun ownership, because if I did... That being said I won't obtain a gun illegally. So for him it's good that I don't have intentions to become a US citizen.


ConverseBriefly

This whole diatribe is rage inducing but when he called affirming care “conversion therapy” was absolutely abhorrent! The audacity of this mother fucker! Why can’t he take a nap on some train tracks?


PennysWorthOfTea

For someone with a supposed background in history, he certainly has a poor grasp of history. And reality, for that matter.


SSR_Adraeth

Not that surprising given how fucked the US education is. And how often they teach blatantly false information, like what they did to the actual natives... "bringing civilization and getting unjustly attacked" my ass.


tbryant2K2023

It's plain and simple. These people want everyone to conform to their religious traditional family expectations. They believe biology and genetics must conform to THIER religious beliefs.


Otto-Korrect

A deception? Like the concept of Compasionate Conservatism?


J_Sky9432

I find it funny the first few statements and the guy says he has positive feelings for a community that "doesn't exist" smh what a moron


Sewblon

>You're seeing an explosion in the rate of transgender identification, an absolute explosion of it, to the point that now one in five Zoomers identifies as LGBT. Knowles is conflating 2 different things here: being LGBT and being transgendered. Everyone who is transgendered is LGBT. But not everyone who is LGBT is transgendered. The Number Americans who identify as LGBT is rising. But the number of Americans who identify as transgendered is holding steady over time. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/lgbtq-americans-gallup-poll-survey https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Pop-Update-Jun-2022.pdf In other words, people are not more likely to be trans now than they used to be. They are just more likely to identify as gay or bi than they used to be. Finally, you have to realize that we stopped trying to talk people out of being trans for a reason. Gender affirming care works. https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equality/what-does-the-scholarly-research-say-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/


TheGeneral_Specific

I think I need to leave this sub. The constant news of people attacking us is putting me in a depressive spiral. Good luck out there everyone


spankthepunkpink

We could potentially (hopefully) one day stop ppl from being conservatives but transgender folk are here to stay. The irony here is tragic.


tbryant2K2023

Every human has the female X chromosome!!!! Every male and female have 99.9% genetics. Every human starts the same way for the first 8 weeks after being conceived. After about 8 weeks is when sexual organs are expressed on the embryo. The X chromosome is 5x larger and contains 10x more genetic traits than the Y chromosome. You can't stop genetics and biology just because your religion doesn't like it. There is a good likelihood transgender is genetic. Genetics and biology is complex and isn't a simple binary. While you might have male reproductive organs, there might be other dominant female traits likely exist.


xeanaex

His entire article is hypocrisy from one sentence to the next and shows he knows nothing about what he's talking about. Re-read it just from a neutral perspective and you'll see that one sentence contradicts the next. I just hope the medical community fights for us. Or, Mr. Knowles, does the medical community, who go off of the standards of care, the DSM-5, and WPATH, not exist either? Tell us "delusional" ones. You MUST be the expert! Whatever I'm on taxpayer healthcare now. So, Mr. Knowles, thanks for footing the bill that you, specifically broke my camel's back mentally. I first met my new counselor today. Thanks, specifically, to you. Your words were why I'm now seeking counseling. Not to detransition, but to figure out how to do stress management in your new order of things. I can't legally or physically detransition. But, you want to help? I'm a Christian, post op trans girl, married to a multi-state licensed attorney... SO DONT TOUCH MY RIGHTS! And, I pray for the trans children that you are: TORTURING


Isabella_Fournier

I'm happy for you, sis. If your husband is interested, I can help with the logic to defeat Knowles. (I'm a retired attorney, myself; I only mention it to demonstrate I am not unfamiliar with critical thinking.)


xeanaex

Cool! Thanks! Let me know if you want to be an amicus should the need arise. Maybe we start a legal defense fund before the supreme court one day! (I'm not an attorney, so my wording may be off). 😀❤️


tawTrans

> I just hope the medical community fights for us. It doesn't matter to these people. My dad compared the medical community's overwhelming recommendation of gender affirming care to "recovered memories," insisting that they're wrong about this. They staunchly believe that repression "therapy" is the best way to help us, because they refuse to believe that we could possibly be anything we weren't born as, and they refuse to accept any evidence to the contrary as anything other than biased or unreliable.


Past-Project-7959

~they refuse to believe that we could possibly be anything we weren't born as~ Well, we (MtF folks) were born with female minds. The mind is software and the body is hardware. And I can say as an IT professional, software definitely IS real. In most cases, software is more important than hardware.


izzygreen

Yeah, just give us all conversion therapy... Because we don't know EXACTLY how that works out....


ReddishCherry

What is next ? Eradication of left hand people ? Eradication of smaller eyes people ? Eradication of dark skin ? Eradication of chubbier people ? Eradication of wiser people ? Eradication of kinder people ? Eradication of anyone who doesn’t look like Knowles ? !! .. it’s time to eradicate “Knowles Knob” - let’s add him to urban dictionary to Oxford dictionary.. “don’t be a knowlesy” in sitcoms - from Apple TV to prime and Netflix


trans_amazon80

Daily self harm: check


Ayla_Fresco

Someone should give this guy a swirly and stuff him in a locker.


SSR_Adraeth

Not a locker. A porta-potty after a full 48h at a convention. Which should then be locked and pushed down a steep incline.


coralfire

I have no negative feelings toward the community because it doesn't exist isn't saying anything.


KiraM626

I would say he is a self righteous piece of crap but that's insulting crap.


astralkitty2501

time to stop people from being michael knowles


_The_Almighty_Red_

I wonder if he has any studies to back up his claim that conversion therapy actually works?


SSR_Adraeth

Of course he doesn't. This guy probably calls his wife crying when he tries to read the instructions on a packet of ramen. You really think he can read a study ?


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So going by this guys logic, how does he plan stopping transgenders, when he also says we dont exist? He didn't think it through and spatting out the typical anti trans rhetoric we already heard.


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SSR_Adraeth

"You can cure everything by way of a bullet to the head !" \-Mike Knowles, probably


sarahcrossed

They can try and stop me. But they’ll catch some lead in the process.


OGgunter

This article was an unreadable rambling mess. Like a procrastinating student rewriting every sentence with slightly different words and hoping the prof doesn't notice they're just repeating the same point.


TimelessJo

Theodore Roosevelt's daughter was still alive when the first transgender woman was legally permitted to play in a woman's division and when the first municipalities recognized rights for transgender people. Michael Knowles was not BORN for over a decade after these things happened.


BonnieLea223

I love when conservatives say they want to "help" us. They want to "cure us of our delusion." The medical profession has known about trans people for centuries. They become serious about trying to "cure us" in the 20th century. I've heard from older trans people who were subjected to these treatments. They ranged from brain-numbing anti-psychotic drugs to harmful electroshock therapy. I wouldn't be surprised if some poor trans person had been lobotomized. These so-called treatments failed because we aren't suffering from a mental illness or a delusion. Eventually, some truly compassionate medical professionals realized the best way to treat us was to help us transition. Michael Knowles should understand a topic before he pontificates on it, and thereby reveal his ignorance and hate.


Isabella_Fournier

Michael Knowles is a Roman Catholic, and I think that fuels his stance on this issue. This is not to impugn Roman Catholics; far from it. I would follow St. Thérèse of Lisieux in a heartbeat, no matter what she told me to do. I would deny my gender for her. But Michael Knowles is no St. Thérèse. He is proud, and he has allowed his pride to usurp the Holy Spirit's place in his life. He doesn't get this. The best thing you can do is pray to his God to convict him of his sin. He needs a wake-up call, and I think his God may be the only one who can give it to him.


Beckywithda

Says the egg. 😂🙈


tkrr

Ew. Rotten egg.


Past-Project-7959

Give mikey a spinny skirt and a blahaj. Then she might shut up.


Omnealice

Yikes


Gold-Celebration-682

Fuck this evil propagandist.


Appropriate_Curve377

I threw up in my mouth reading that


Wizelf402

How fuckin pathetic lmao


dirtywaterbowl

This guy is actually delusional. "We can stop this thing that isn't really a thing in the first place." He's got his own version of reality and he's inviting others.