• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    57·
    7 days ago

    Trans people seem to share many of my interests. Programming, Linux, hating fascists and billionaires. I only have love for them.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        6·
        7 days ago

        My experience is that they tend to be into gardening and horticulture. And fine art. And death metal.

      • MaryReads@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        There’s a joke that if you’re meeting a trans femme she’s either working in tech or does sex work… And… Like… Wellll… it’s not wrong, stereotypes aside, welp

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    My younger set, and even the older ones, are so lasseiz-faire about kids transitioning. Like, it still seems kind of a big & scary deal to me, and I have a trans son. I don’t mean I would ever try to squash anyone into a box, at all, it’s not my life, each person gets their own! I did grow up with drag queens & gay people, that was such a beautiful, safe and inclusive scene for those of us who didn’t fit in, in whatever way. We would just go and dance and have a good time. But there were not many transsexual people, some of the drag queens were people who wanted to be women, were always women, but more were usually men who liked to perform as women.

    That got long, sorry - I just always think it’s odd that so many kids are trans - enough that all of my kids had/have multiple trans friends. Like once it was sort of ok and not actively fought against, I would still think it would be vanishingly rare (and I don’t think I think that out of any sort of prejudice), and it’s not.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    107·
    7 days ago

    Ngl, there’s still plenty of assholes in the current crop of under 30s and under 20s.

    But, yeah, there’s a lot more of this kind of acceptance and decency. It’s a beautiful thing to see. I got to see a similar wave of change back in the nineties with gay people, men in specific, where the millennials were essentially defaulting to acceptance or outright active support. For my generation, we had a longer road to divest ourselves of outdated thinking, so watching acceptance spread was a different experience than watching the next generation just grow up without as much baggage.

    Again, no generation has ever, or will ever, be a monolith of bottled belief. But it does seem like the curve of decency on average is looking really damn good right now.