Leo’s trans blog post

[Fabreeze]

I am aware the trans debate does have nuance especially when it comes to sports. I see and understand the arguments the right puts up and I can concede they have valid concerns in the domain of sports. 

I would just ask Leo if he genuinely believes the best thing to tell a trans person is that they don’t love themselves enough to be the gender they were assigned at birth? Or that their mind is corrupt and unstable? That seems pretty cold and harsh to me. 

what advice would Leo give someone who struggles with their identity and body image issues ?
 

I understand he can probably just tell them to drop the whole thing in some spiritual detachment sense and be ok with their body and assigned gender and sure you can do that but that kind of sounds like telling someone who’s gay in the 1940s to just stop being gay and like women. IMO.

 I also think it’s a red flag to buy into the right wing framing that trans people are looking to be trans just to have a leg up in a sport. I’m willing to bet the amount of trans athletes in this country is incredibly small. 
 

i think it’s wrong of Leo to claim that LGBTQ activists “can’t be trusted to be fair” when for the most part they’re battling the straight up hatred and venom the right spews at them disguised as genuine concern for women’s sports.
 

I believe the right is attempting to have this convo on their terms and with their own unfair framings of this topic. Just look at someone like Joe Rogan and the way he goes about discussing trans issues. 
 

P.S I am a Gen Z male who’s had relationships with trans women in the past so I do have a bias in being hyper defensive of lgbtq people. 
 

Thank you for any replies and thank you Leo for your work. 

[lostingenosmaze]

https://actualized.org/insights/trans-sports

Here's is the blogpost mentioned. Just felt compelled to share that since the blog gets updated everyday and new people can get the full context.

[LordFall]

Yeah I kinda see his point but I found that to be a wildly irresponsible and wrong take to post publicly as well. 

[Fabreeze]

@LordFall yes it is strange to see Leo have these sorts of takes as of late. 

[LordFall]

We are only human, everyone has biases. He posts his opinions on his personal blog which is fine as long as he's open to some pushback which he usually is. I think it's good, no guru has all the answers we're all only trying to figure it out.